Committees at a Glance

Roger Hale, 70, has been a director of Ashland since 2001. He is a member of the Environmental, Health, Safety & Product Compliance and Governance & Nominating committees.

Currently an independent consultant, Mr. Hale retired in 2001 as chairman and chief executive officer of LG&E Energy Corp., a position he had held since 1990. Prior to joining LG&E, he held various executive positions with BellSouth Corp. and AT&T Co. He is a director of Hospira Inc.

Vada Manager, 52, became a member of Ashland's board of directors in 2008 and serves on the Audit, Governance & Nominating, and Personnel & Compensation committees.

Mr. Manager is the chief executive officer of Manager Global Consulting Group. A senior counselor of APCO Worldwide, Mr. Manager joined the Washington, D.C., office of the public affairs and strategic communications consultancy in 2010. Previously, he was an independent global consultant. From 1997 to 2009, Mr. Manager held various management roles with Nike Inc., culminating with the position of senior director of global issues management from 2006 to 2009. Before joining Nike, he performed a similar role at Levi Strauss & Co. and was also a vice president of the Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm Powell Tate, a part of Weber Shandwick.

Mark Rohr, 62, joined Ashland's board of directors in 2008 and serves on the Audit and Environmental Health, Safety & Product Compliance committees.

Mr. Rohr is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Celanese Corp., a position he has held since April 2012. Prior to that, he served as executive chairman of Albemarle Corp. Previously, he held several executive positions with Albemarle, including chief executive officer, president and chief operating officer. Before joining Albemarle, he served with Occidental Chemical Corp. as senior vice president – specialty chemicals. Mr. Rohr also serves on the executive committee of the American Chemistry Council and the advisory board of Mississippi State University College of Arts and Sciences.

Janice J. Teal, Ph.D., former group vice president and chief scientific officer for Avon Products Inc., was elected to the company’s board of directors in September 2012. Dr. Teal serves as chair of the Environmental, Health, Safety, & Products Compliance Committee and a member of the Personnel & Compensation Committees. She brings 28 years of leadership and scientific research experience to Ashland’s board. Prior to her retirement from Avon in 2010, she led the company’s global research and development team of chemists and scientists, with responsibility for the development and support of Avon’s worldwide product lines. Before that, Dr. Teal served as vice president of the Avon Skin Care Laboratories, where she led the bioscience research and skin care teams that ultimately led to the growth of the Anew Skin Care brand to over $1 billion in sales. She had additional responsibility for development of Avon’s vitamin and nutritional lines. Dr. Teal joined Avon in 1982 as a program leader in toxicology and built Avon’s first pharmacokinetics and cell culture laboratories. She earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Emory University and served as a Research Fellow in toxicology at New York University. She previously served on the board of directors of Arch Chemicals, which was acquired last year by Lonza Group Ltd.

Michael Ward, 63, has been a director on Ashland's board since 2001. He is a member of the Personnel & Compensation and Governance & Nominating committees.

Mr. Ward is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of CSX Corp., having previously served as president of the company's CSX Transportation rail unit. He is also a director of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, City Year and Take Stock in Children. His other affiliations include The Florida Council of 100, The Business Roundtable, the Hubbard House Foundation, Edward Waters College Foundation and Michael and Kim Ward Foundation