---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-019729"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASH"
cik: "0001674862"
company_name: "ASHLAND INC."
filed_at: "2024-02-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T15:18:50.152583+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashland SVP Min Chong to depart April 30, 2024 under severance plan

## Summary
- Min Chong, SVP and GM of Personal Care and Specialty Additives, will depart Ashland on April 30, 2024.
- Departure qualifies as Qualifying Termination under Senior Leadership Severance Plan.
- Chong to receive severance payments/benefits in exchange for waiver, release, and non-solicitation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-019729
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASH
- cik: 0001674862
- company_name: ASHLAND INC.
- filed_at: 2024-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024019729/0000950170-24-019729-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024019729/ash-20240220.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-019729.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Min Chong departed as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Personal Care and Specialty Additives at ASHLAND INC..
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Senior Vice President and General Manager, Personal Care and Specialty Additives
  source text: On February 20, 2024, Ashland Inc. (the “Company”) and Min Chong, the Company’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Personal Care and Specialty Additives, agreed that Mr. Chong will depart from the Company on April 30, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024019729/0000950170-24-019729-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.