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Pakistan: Fecto Cement has appointed Hanif Idress as its chief financial officer. He succeeds Abdul Samad in the post. The cement producer operates the integrated Taxila plant near Islamabad.

Pakistan: Fauji Cement has appointed Anwar Ali Hyder as its chair. He succeeds Waqar Ahmed Malik in the post. The company operates four integrated cement plants in the country. It inaugurated its Shadan Lund cement plant in Dera Ghazi Khan in November 2023 bringing its total cement production capacity to 10.6Mt/yr.

Saudi Arabia: Yamama Cement has appointed Naif bin Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabir as its chair. Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al Obeikan has been appointed as the vice-chair. Members of the Compensation and Nomination Committee and the Audit Committee have also been announced.

India: Adani Group subsidiaries ACC and Ambuja Cement have both appointed Manish Mistry as company secretary. He succeeds Hitesh L Marthak in both posts, who is taking another job in the group.

Mistry has over 18 years of experience in corporate laws compliance, secretarial and legal roles. Before joining Adani Group in 2022, he worked for Bell Ceramics, Alembic Group, Cadila Group and GACL. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India in New Delhi, a graduate in commerce and law from the M S University of Vadodara and is a qualified Cost & Management Accountant (CMA).

Switzerland: Holcim has appointed Jelena Stamenkovski as Lead of Clinker Decarbonisation.

Stamenkovski has worked for Holcim Group since 2008. She originally held senior production roles at Holcim’s subsidiary in Serbia. In 2015 she took up group process roles based in Switzerland, becoming the company’s Cement Industrial Operating System Manager from 2017 to 2021. She later became the Group Process Expert - Plants of Tomorrow – Decarbonisation in 2023. Prior to working for Holcim she worked at Titan Cement’s Skopje plant in North Macedonia.

Stamenkovski holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in process engineering from Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.