---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-130630"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASH"
cik: "0001674862"
company_name: "ASHLAND INC."
filed_at: "2024-11-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T18:56:55.398655+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashland VP Finance and Principal Accounting Officer Eric Boni departs

## Summary
- Eric F. Boni, Ashland's VP Finance and Principal Accounting Officer, to depart after a brief transition period.
- Departure qualifies as a Qualifying Termination under the Senior Leadership Severance Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.60 to 2022 10-K).
- Boni eligible for severance payments and benefits per plan in exchange for waiver, release, and non-solicitation covenants.
- No successor named; transition underway.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-130630
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASH
- cik: 0001674862
- company_name: ASHLAND INC.
- filed_at: 2024-11-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024130630/0000950170-24-130630-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024130630/ash-20241119.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-130630
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-130630.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-130630.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric F. Boni departed as Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer at ASHLAND INC..
  - Action: depart
  - Role: Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On November 19, 2024, Ashland Inc (the “Company”) and Eric F. Boni, the Company’s Vice President, Finance and Principal Accounting Officer, agreed that Mr. Boni will depart from the Company following a brief transition period.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017024130630/0000950170-24-130630-index.htm

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