Ashland Inc.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Ashland's fourth quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Sandy Klugman. Sandy, please go ahead.

Thank you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ashland's fourth quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call and webcast. My name is Sandy Klugman, and I recently joined Ashland as the company's director of investor relations. I'm excited to be stepping into this role at a pivotal time for Ashlyn and our stakeholders, and I look forward to connecting with many of you in the months ahead. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Chair and CEO, William Whitaker, CFO, as well as our business unit leaders, Alessandra Fasin, Life Sciences and Intermediates, Jim Minacucci, Personal Care, and Dago Caceres, Specialty Additive. Please note that we will be referencing slides during today's call. We encourage you to follow along with webcast materials available at Ashland.com under investor relations. Please turn to slide two. As a reminder, today's presentation contains forward-looking statements regarding our fiscal 2026 outlook and other matters as detailed on slide two and in our form 10-K. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future results from today's projections. We believe any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, but there's no assurance these expectations will be achieved. We will also reference certain adjusted financial metrics, both actual and projected, which are non-GAAP measures. We present these adjusted figures to provide additional insight into our ongoing business performance. GAAP reconciliations are available on our website and in the appendix of these slides. I'll now hand the call over to Guillermo for his opening remarks.

Thanks, Sandy, and welcome to everyone joining us.