---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-007842"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASH"
cik: "0001674862"
company_name: "ASHLAND INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T19:43:02.195178+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashland appoints J. Kevin Willis as Principal Accounting Officer and reports annual meeting results

## Summary
- J. Kevin Willis, SVP and CFO, also appointed Principal Accounting Officer effective January 21, 2025.
- Annual meeting held January 21, 2025; 43,169,160 shares (91.50%) represented.
- All nine director nominees elected; Jerome A. Peribere received 34.4M for, 6.1M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for fiscal 2025 received 42,982,868 votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved with 39,525,692 votes for, 968,838 against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-007842
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASH
- cik: 0001674862
- company_name: ASHLAND INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017025007842/0000950170-25-007842-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017025007842/ash-20250121.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-007842.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  J. Kevin Willis was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at ASHLAND INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 21, 2025, the Board of Directors of Ashland Inc. (“Ashland” or the “Company”) appointed J. Kevin Willis, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to also serve as the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer, effective January 21, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1674862/000095017025007842/0000950170-25-007842-index.htm

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