Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · ASHLAND INC. (ASH)

William Whitaker

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for William Whitaker as a named executive officer of ASHLAND; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,350,368

3rd of 7 named executive officers at Ashland by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 9, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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William Whitaker compensation by year

ASHLAND Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as ASHLAND reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$323,475
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,748,658
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$243,686
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$34,549
Total$2,350,368

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: ASHLAND INC. DEF 14A filed December 9, 2025, accession 0001193125-25-312753, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the ASHLAND INC. filed document, accession 0001193125-25-312753. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 9, 2025.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU15,537$744,398—
RSU12,750$610,850—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in ASHLAND INC.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments ASHLAND discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,368,180$2,235,065$25,157$3,892,288
Involuntary termination without cause$621,900$313,038$25,157$1,223,981
Death—$313,038—$556,724
Retirement—$313,038—$556,724
Disability—$313,038—$556,724
Change in control, no termination———$243,686
Change in control and resignation for good reason$1,368,180$2,235,065$25,157$3,892,288
Involuntary for cause—$313,038—$556,724

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in ASHLAND INC.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

ASHLAND’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Guillermo NovoChair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer$7,907,423
J. Kevin WillisFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,407,328
William Whitaker · this pageSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,350,368
Alessandra Faccin AssisSenior Vice President and General Manager, Life Sciences and Intermediates$2,086,178
Osama MusaSenior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer$1,743,822
Karl BostaphFormer Senior Vice President Operations$1,536,524
James MinicucciSenior Vice President and General Manager, Personal Care$1,421,501

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are ASHLAND's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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