Item 5.02 Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
After more than 11 years of service to The Toro Company (“TTC”), Renee J. Peterson, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, notified TTC on February 13,
2023, of her decision to retire in July 2023. Also on February 13, 2023, the Board of Directors of TTC promoted Angela C. Drake, age 50, to Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, effective as of March 10, 2023, to succeed Ms. Peterson and serve
as TTC’s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. As part of the succession plan and to ensure an orderly transition of Ms. Drake into her new role as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Peterson will serve as Vice
President, Finance beginning on March 10, 2023 through her July retirement date.
Ms. Drake currently serves as Vice President, Finance of TTC, a position she has held since July 2022. From April 2020 to June 2022, she served as Vice
President, Construction of TTC, where she had responsibility for the Ditch Witch, American Augers, Trencor, Hammerhead Trenchless, Subsite Electronics, and Radius HDD businesses and brands as well as Ditch Witch corporate-owned dealers. Ms. Drake
joined TTC as Senior Managing Director, Integration when The Charles Machine Works, Inc. (“CMW”), an underground and specialty construction company, was acquired by TTC in April 2019 and served in this position through March 2020. Prior to joining
TTC, Ms. Drake served as Chief Financial Officer for CMW from February 2011 through March 2019. Ms. Drake earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a Certified Public Accountant. She is a member of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants. She serves on the board of directors of the First Bank & Trust Company and State Chamber of Oklahoma.
Pursuant to the terms of an offer letter dated February 13, 2023, effective as of March 10, 2023, Ms. Drake will receive a new annual base salary of
$565,000, a new target annual cash incentive award opportunity of 65% of fiscal year base salary earnings, and a restricted stock unit award with a value of $850,000 with the number of restricted stock units to be based on the value divided by the
closing stock price on March 10, 2023. The restricted stock units will be granted under The Toro Company 2022 Equity and Incentive Plan, which award will vest in three equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of
grant.
There is no family relationship between Ms. Drake and any of the directors or other executive officers of TTC and no transaction since the beginning of
TTC’s last fiscal year, or any currently proposed transaction, which TTC was or is to be a participant and in which Ms. Drake or any related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest that would be required to be disclosed under
Item 404(a) of SEC Regulation S-K, other than the employment relationship between Ms. Drake and TTC.
The foregoing description of Ms. Drake’s offer letter is a summary of the material terms of such letter, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in
its entirety by reference to the complete text of the offer letter, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.