Ecovyst Inc. announced that Anna C. Catalano has been elected to the Company's Board of Directors. Ms. Catalano will bring extensive business experience and two decades of public and private board service to the Ecovyst Board. From 1979 to 2003, Ms. Catalano held a variety of positions with BP plc and its predecessor company, Amoco Corporation, concluding as Group Vice President, Marketing for BP at the time of her retirement in 2003.

In 2010, Ms. Catalano co-founded The World Innovation Network, a non-profit network of innovators to work toward global prosperity, and continued work with that organization until 2021. She currently serves on the board of directors of HF Sinclair Corporation, where she is a member of the Nominating/Governance and Compensation Committees, and Frontdoor Inc., where she is the chair of the Compensation Committee. She formerly served on the boards of directors of Willis Towers Watson, Kraton Corporation, Mead Johnson Nutrition, and Chemtura Corporation.

She holds a B.S. degree in Marketing and Business Administration from the University of Illinois, Champaign – Urbana and also has been active with the National Association of Corporate Directors (including its Corporate Directors Institute), the Alzheimer's Association and the Houston Grand Opera. In addition, the Company announced that Greg Brenneman and Martin Craighead have retired from the Ecovyst Board effective July 27, 2022. Mr. Brenneman has served as a director of Ecovyst since 2014 and Mr. Craighead has served as a director of Ecovyst since 2017.