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Naif bin Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabir appointed as chair of Yamama Cement
Written by Global Cement staff
03 April 2024
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.
Manish Mistry appointed as company secretary at ACC and Ambuja Cement
Written by Global Cement staff
03 April 2024
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).
Jelena Stamenkovski appointed as Lead of Clinker Decarbonisation at Holcim
Written by Global Cement staff
03 April 2024
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.
Farah Qahttan appointed as Country Customer Service Manager at Lafarge Iraq
Written by Global Cement staff
27 March 2024
Iraq: Lafarge Iraq has appointed Farah Qahttan as Country Customer Service Manager. She has worked for the subsidiary of Switzerland-based Holcim since 2013 in a range of positions, becoming the company’s Country Packaging Manager in 2022. Qahttan is a graduate in chemical engineering from the University of Baghdad.
John Terembula appointed Senior Director, Grinding Technology at Summit Materials
Written by Global Cement staff
27 March 2024
US: Summit Materials has appointed John Terembula as Senior Director, Grinding Technology. He previously worked for FLSmidth from 1994 to early 2024 in a variety of engineering and then product manager roles for grinding applications. His final position at FLSmidth was as Global Product Line Manager, Vertical Roller Mills. Terembula holds a degree in chemical engineering and materials from Lafayette College and an MBA from Temple University.