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In a regulatory filing, the company stated, "On March 18, 2026, the Board of Directors of Ingredion elected Jason Payant to serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the company effective April 1, 2026. In this role, he will serve as the company's principal financial officer. Payant succeeds James Gray, whose resignation as Executive Vice President and CFO of the company effective March 31, 2026 was reported on January 27, 2026. Payant has been in service with the company since 2012 in roles of increasing responsibility. He has served as the Company's Vice President, Finance, Global Texture & Healthful Solutions since November 2025, in which position he will continue during his service as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Before his appointment to this position, Payant was Vice President, Finance, Food & Industrial Ingredients U.S./Canada from January 2024 to November 2025, Interim Vice President, Investor Relations from September 2021 to October 2022, and Vice President, Finance from October 2017 to January 2024."

Shiru and Ingredion announced a global R&D collaboration aimed at accelerating the discovery and commercialization of novel functional proteins for food, beverage, supplements and specialized nutrition. Ingredion and Shiru will engage in the joint pursuit of a targeted R&D program enabled by Shiru's proprietary AI discovery platform - the industry's broadest searchable database of functional protein ingredients, with more than 77 million natural protein sequences catalogued and analyzed. The collaboration will focus on the development of next-generation prebiotics derived from natural sources to promote healthier microbiomes, an area where AI-driven protein discovery is creating new possibilities that conventional R&D cannot easily access.