On February 27, 2024, the Board of Directors of Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. appointed Karen Ries to serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and the Company?s principal accounting officer, effective March 1, 2024. Ms. Ries, age 41, has served as Vice President and Global Controller of the Company since August 2023. Prior to joining the Company, she served as Vice President and Controller of Univar Solutions, a distributor of chemistry and related products and services, from September 2021 to August 2023.

From May 2018 through September 2021, she served as Assistant Controller of AbbVie, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company.