Ashland Inc. (ASH)

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Ashland Inc.

8145 Blazer Drive
Wilmington, DE 19808
United States
302 995 3000
https://www.ashland.com

Sector(s): Basic Materials
Industry: Specialty Chemicals
Full-time employees: 3,900

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Guillermo Novo	Chairman & CEO	3.5M	N/A	1962
Mr. John Kevin Willis	Sr. VP & CFO	1.63M	678.34k	1965
Dr. Osama M. Musa Ph.D.	Sr. VP & CTO	1.2M	104.5k	1969
Mr. Min S. Chong	Sr. VP and GM of Personal Care & Specialty Additives	933.35k	N/A	1972
Mr. Ashok S. Kalyana	Sr. VP and GM of Life Sciences & Intermediates	842.24k	N/A	1973
Mr. Karl R. Bostaph	Sr. VP of Operations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Eric N. Boni	VP of Fin. & Principal Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1969
Seth A. Mrozek	Director of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Robin E. Lampkin	Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Andrew Beer	VP of Marketing & Bus. Devel.	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of 31 December 2022, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Ashland Inc. provides additives and specialty ingredients worldwide. It operates through Life Sciences, Personal Care, Specialty Additives, and Intermediates segments. The Life Sciences segment offers pharmaceutical solutions, including controlled release polymers, disintegrants, tablet coatings, thickeners, solubilizers, and tablet binders; nutrition solutions, such as thickeners, stabilizers, emulsifiers, and additives; and nutraceutical solutions comprising products for weight management, joint comfort, stomach and intestinal health, sports nutrition, and general wellness, as well as custom formulation, toll processing, and particle engineering solutions. The Personal Care segment provides a range of nature-based, biodegradable, and performance ingredients; solutions for toothpastes, mouth washes and rinses, denture cleaning, and care for teeth; and household supplies nature-derived rheology ingredients, biodegradable surface wetting agents, performance encapsulates, and specialty polymers. The Specialty Additives segment offers rheology modifiers, foam control agents, surfactants and wetting agents, pH neutralizers, advanced ceramics used in catalytic converters, environmental filters, ingredients for the manufacturing of ceramic capacitors, plasma display panels and solar cells, ingredients for textile printing, thermoplastic metals, and alloys for welding. The Intermediates segment produces 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone. It offers its products to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets, such as architectural coatings, construction, energy, food and beverage, nutraceuticals, personal care, and pharmaceutical. The company was formerly known as Ashland Global Holdings Inc. and changed its name to Ashland Inc. in August 2022. Ashland Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Corporate governance

Ashland Inc.’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 September 2023 is 3. The pillar scores are Audit: 7; Board: 3; Shareholder rights: 3; Compensation: 2.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.