Kathleen Wilson-Thompson joined Ashland’s board in July 2017 and serves on the compensation committee and the environmental, health, safety and quality committee. She is executive vice president and global chief human resources officer at Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., the largest retail pharmacy, health and daily living destination across the USA and Europe. Prior to this, she was senior vice president and chief human resources officer for Walgreens since 2010. Prior to her role at Walgreens, she held several positions of increasing responsibility in the operations and legal departments at Kellogg Company (NYSE: K). She left Kellogg as senior vice president of global human resources to join Walgreens. She also worked as vice president and staff counsel of litigation and banking law for Michigan National Corporation. Ms. Wilson-Thompson earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate and an LLM, master of laws in corporate and finance law from Wayne State University. She has served as a director of Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC), a producer of construction aggregates, since 2009.

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