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• ASHLAND
• BACKGROUND WITH ASHLAND
• FOCUSING A TURNAROUND
• TROUBLING TIMES
• PROFITABILITY-IMPROVEMENT PLAN
• REDUCING DEBT
• 2004 RESULTS
• VOLUNTEERING AND SERVING
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Chairman and chief executive officer, Ashland Inc.

Nationality: American.

Born: 1955, in Circleville, Ohio.

Education: Ohio State University, BBA, 1976.

Career: Ashland Chemical Company, 1976–1992, management positions of increasing responsibility in Foundry, Specialty Polymers, and General Polymers; 1992–1994, executive assistant to...