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Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH)

Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call

January 31, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Seth Mrozek – Director, Investor Relations

Guillermo Novo – Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer

Kevin Willis – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

David Begleiter – Deutsche Bank

Joshua Spector – UBS Group AG

Mike Harrison – Seaport Research Partners

Jeff Zekauskas – JP Morgan

Laurence Alexander – Jefferies

John McNulty – BMO Capital Markets

Michael Sison – Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

John Roberts – Mizuho

Operator

Good day. And welcome to the Ashland Inc. First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Seth Mrozek. Director of Portfolio Strategy. Please go ahead.

Seth Mrozek

Thank you, Abigail. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ashland’s first quarter fiscal year 2024 earnings conference call and webcast. My name is Seth Mrozek, Director of Portfolio Strategy for Ashland. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Ashland’s Chair and Chief Executive Officer; and Kevin Willis, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In addition, I want to welcome William Whitaker, Vice President of Finance and Director of Investor Relations. Following this month’s organization changes to Ashland’s finance, strategy, M&A portfolio team. William and I’ll complete the Investor relations transition following this earnings cycle.

Ashland released results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 at approximately 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, yesterday January 30. The news release issued last night was furnished to the SEC in a Form 8-K. During today’s call, we will reference slides that

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