COVINGTON, Ky., March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The board of
directors of Ashland Inc. (NYSE: ASH) met late yesterday and elected Vada
O. Manager and Mark C. Rohr as directors of the company. Manager will serve
as a member of Ashland's Finance and Personnel & Compensation committees.
Rohr will serve on Ashland's Audit and Environmental, Health & Safety
committees.
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Vada Manager, 46, currently serves as director of global issues
management for Nike, Inc., a hybrid role of in-house business consultant
and strategic communications advisor for the global company. Prior to this
position, Manager held various management positions at Nike, including
senior strategist, advisor to senior management and project manager, in
multiple areas of the company, beginning in 1997. Before joining Nike, he
performed in a similar role at Levi Strauss & Co.'s global headquarters in
San Francisco and was also a vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based
public affairs firm, Powell Tate, a part of Weber Shandwick. Manager, also
a former vice president of public finance for a Phoenix-based NYSE
brokerage firm, holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Arizona
State University and performed graduate work at the London School of
Economics.
Mark Rohr, 56, is president and chief executive officer of Albemarle
Corp. Prior to this position, he held several executive positions with
Albemarle, including chief operating officer and executive vice president
-- operations. Before joining Albemarle, he served with Occidental Chemical
Corp. as senior vice president -- specialty chemicals. Rohr holds
bachelor's degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering from Mississippi
State University. He is also a director of Celanese Corp. and serves on the
executive committee of the American Chemistry Council and the board of
directors of the Wildlife Habitat Council.
Ashland Inc., a diversified, global chemical company, provides quality
products, services and solutions to customers in more than 100 countries. A
FORTUNE 500 company, it operates through four divisions: Ashland
Performance Materials, Ashland Distribution, Valvoline and Ashland Water
Technologies. To learn more about Ashland, visit http://www.ashland.com .
SOURCE Ashland Inc.
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CONTACT:
Media Relations, Jim Vitak, +1-614-790-3715,
jevitak@ashland.com, or Investor Relations, Eric Boni,
+1-859-815-3527, enboni@ashland.com, both of Ashland Inc.
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