Ascent Industries names J. Bryan Kitchen CEO

Ascent Industries announced the promotion of Ascent Chemicals’ President J. Bryan Kitchen to Ascent’s CEO and Ascent Chemicals’ Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis Ryan Kavalauskas to Ascent’s CFO. Mr. Kitchen succeeds President and CEO Chris Hutter, who will remain on the Company’s board of directors. Mr. Kavalauskas succeeds CFO Bill Steckel, who will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. “As we continue to make progress towards our long-term strategic goals for Ascent, I’m pleased to announce the promotions of Bryan and Ryan to lead the Company,” said Ascent’s Executive Chairman Ben Rosenzweig. “Since taking the helm of Ascent Chemicals last year, Bryan has made notable progress improving the operational performance of the business, with Ryan recently playing an integral role leading all financial planning and analysis across the organization. We are excited by the opportunities to continue profitably scaling our specialty chemicals business, and we are eager to have two proven industry leaders drive our Company forward.