Malaysia: Lafarge Malaysia has appointed Yeoh Khoon Cheng as its interim chief executive officer (CEO).
Yeoh started his career with Deloitte Kassim Chan in 1979. He joined Lafarge Malaysia in 1987 as finance manager and has held various positions involving business development, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance activities and acted as company secretary from 1990 to 1998. He was appointed as executive director and chief financial officer (CFO) in 1999. From mid-2011 to the end of 2015, he was the CFO for Lafarge Cement China. Latterly, Yeoh was the CFO of Huaxin Cement in China from 2016 to mid-2017. He is a member of the Malaysian of Institute of Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
