Ashland Inc.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to Ashland's third quarter fiscal year

2025 earnings conference call-in webcast. My name is William Whitaker, and I'm honored to join you today as Ashland's recently appointed CFO. I'm energized to fully embrace this role and lead our finance organization in advancing Ashland's strategic priorities and delivering sustained shareholder value. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Ashland's Chair and CEO, and our business unit leaders, Alessandra Piscine, Jim Indacucci, and Dago Caseras. During today's call, we will reference slides being webcast on our website, ashland.com, under the investor relations section. We encourage you to follow along. Please turn to slide 2. We'll be making forward-looking statements on several matters, including our fiscal 2025 outlook, which involves risks and uncertainty as detailed on slide 2 and our form 10-K. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from today's projections. We believe any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions that cannot assure that such expectations will be achieved. We'll also discuss certain adjusted financial metrics, both actual and projected, which are non-GAAP measures. We refer to these measures as adjusted and present them to supplement your understanding and assessment of our ongoing business. GAAP reconciliations are available on our website in the appendix of these slides. I'll now hand the call over to Guillermo for his opening remarks. Guillermo? Good