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India: Sumnesh Khandelwal has resigned as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of JK Cements. He has been in post since late 2021. Prior to this he was the Deputy President – Commercial for JMC Projects and was the CEO of Robo Silicon Private. Earlier in his career he spent nearly 20 years working for UltraTech Cement, eventually becoming a Joint Executive President. Khandelwal is a chartered account affiliated to The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Mexico: Cementos Moctezuma has appointed Fortino Delgado Carrillo as its Director of Legal Affairs. He succeeds Belen Molins Benavent in the post.

Delgado has worked as Senior Legal Manager Litigation for Cementos Moctezuma since early 2021. Before this he held a variety of corporate legal roles for companies, including Monere Business, Inter-Con Security Systems and MultiPack. He also worked as the Director General for the National Human Rights Commission Mexico. Delgado holds law qualifications from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

UK: MQP (Midland Quarry Products) has appointed Andrew Boileau as its managing director. He succeeds Rick Green, who has retired after a 40-year career in the industry, taking responsibility for MQP’s three quarries and 10 asphalt plants located across the Midlands. MQP is a subsidiary of Heidelberg Materials.

Boileau previously worked as the Programme Director for STARK Building Materials. He has also held various senior roles at Saint-Gobain, including Managing Director of Gibbs and Dandy.

Germany: Heidelberg Materials has appointed Katharina Beumelburg as its Chief Sustainability & New Technologies Officer. She succeeds Nicola Kimm, who will leave the company on 31 August 2024. Beumelburg will take up her position on 1 October 2024.

Beumelburg joins Heidelberg Materials from SLB (formerly Schlumberger), where she has worked as the Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer since May 2021. Previously, she spent over 15 years at Siemens, Siemens Energy, and Hydrogen Europe, focusing on business strategy and excellence as well as energy systems. She has studied Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and holds a PhD in Robotics and Automation from the University of Stuttgart.

Italy: The Italian cement association Federbeton has appointed Stefano Gallini as its president. He succeeds Roberto Callieri in the position.

Gallini is currently the CEO of Heidelberg Materials Italia, a role he assumed at the start of 2024. Before this he was the West African Region Managing Director for Heildelberg Materials and the Managing Director for Sierra Leone. Gallini previously worked for Italcementi from 2000 to 2017 becoming the company’s Chief Commercial Officer Egypt in 2010.