Nigeria: Mathew Philip retires as the Deputy Group Managing Director of Dangote Cement. He has also left the company’s board of directors. He spent two years in the post. No successor has been announced.
Philip holds over 35 years of experience in the cement industry. Prior to working for Dangote Cement, he was Head of Cement Manufacturing Excellence for LafargeHolcim APAC region. He also worked as the Chief Manufacturing Officer for India-based ACC in the late 2010s. Before this he worked for Lafarge in a variety of roles and countries including Director - Performance and Progress in Kuala Lumpur and Relations Director in China. He originally started his career working as a process engineer for ACC. He is a chemical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras.