On January 15, 2019, Ashland Global Holdings Inc. filed a definitive proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders to vote for the election of its nominees: Brendan M. Cummins, William G. Dempsey, Jay V. Ihlenfeld, Susan L. Main, Jerome A. Peribere, Craig A. Rogerson, Mark C. Rohr, Janice J. Teal, Michael J. Ward, Kathleen Wilson-Thompson, and William A. Wulfsohn as directors of the Company at the Company’s 2018 annual meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on February 8, 2018.