On September 15, 2016, the Board of Directors of Versum Materials, Inc. approved a resolution that, effective as of October 1, 2016, immediately prior to the distribution of the company's outstanding common stock held by Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Air Products) to Air Products' stockholders (the Distribution), the Certificate of Incorporation of the company will be amended and restated and the Bylaws of the company will be amended and restated. Guillermo Novo will be the President and Chief Executive Officer of Versum and will be a member of its board of directors. He is currently Executive Vice President, Materials Technologies of Air Products.

He has served in this role since October 2014. He joined Air Products in 2012 as Senior Vice President Electronics, Performance Materials, Strategy and Technology. Prior to joining Air Products, Mr. Novo was employed by Dow Chemical Company where he most recently served as group vice president, Dow Coating Materials.

George G. Bitto will serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He is currently Vice President, Finance of the Materials Technologies business of Air Products, in which capacity he has served since October 2014. Mr. Bitto joined Air Products in 1987 as a participant in Air Products' Career Development Program and held a variety of analyst and management positions within the Controllership and Treasury organizations.

In 2000, he was appointed general manager of Air Products' North America Liquid Bulk business. Mr. Bitto returned to the Finance organization, where he was named controller for the Chemicals Group in 2002 and Vice President and Controller for the Gases and Equipment Group in 2004. In 2007, Mr. Bitto was named Vice President and Treasurer, and in 2010 he was appointed Vice President, Treasurer, and Chief Risk Officer.

Patrick F. Loughlin will be Senior Vice President Operations and Supply Chain. He was appointed Vice President, Operations and Supply Chain, for Air Products' Materials Technologies business in June 2015. He will be responsible for all fulfillment activities, including operations, supply chain, procurement, engineering, customer service, Environment, Health, and Safety (EH&S), and business improvement.

Mr. Loughlin joined Air Products in 1988 as a participant in Air Products' Career Development Program. Michael W. Valente will be Senior Vice President Law and Human Resources, General Counsel, and Secretary. He has been General Counsel of the Materials Technologies business of Air Products since June 2015.

Prior to that, he was Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Rockwood Holdings Inc. Seifollah (Seifi) Ghasemi became Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in July 2014. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Ghasemi was an independent member of Air Products' board of directors. Jacques Croisetière will serve as a director on Board.

From August 2009 to December 2012 Mr. Croisetière was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Bacardi Limited. Before Bacardi Limited he worked at Rohm and Haas Company as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer from April 2003 to April 2009, and before that was the Vice President, European Region Director and Director Ion Exchange Resins and Inorganic Specialty Solutions from July 1999 to March 2003. Yi Hyon Paik will serve as a director on Board.

Until April 2016, Mr. Paik was the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung SDI Company since 2014. Thomas Riordan will serve as a director on Board. Mr. Riordan served as the Chief Legal/Administrative Officer and Board Secretary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. from 2000 to 2015 while also serving as the Senior Executive Vice President from 2014 to 2015, the Senior Vice President from 2005 to 2013 and before that as Vice President from 2000 to 2005.

Susan Schnabel will serve as a director on Board. Ms. Schnabel is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of aPriori Capital Partners, an independent leveraged buyout fund advisor created in connection with the spin-off of DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (DLJMBP) from Credit Suisse (CS) in 2014. Ambassador Alejandro D. Wolff was an Ambassador and Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations from 2005 to 2010.

Ambassador Wolff is a 33-year veteran of the Department of State since joining as a Foreign Service Officer in 1979. He retired from the U.S. Department of State on August 23, 2013.