People

Pakistan: Dewan Cement has appointed Hazrat Ali as its chief financial officer. He succeeds Imran Ahmed Javed in the role. The cement producer operates two plants.

Türkiye: Votorantim Cimentos Türkiye has appointed İlker Kutlu Yilmaz as its Head of Logistics. He previously worked as the Group Logistics Manager for Cementir Holding in Türkiye. Prior to this he also worked as a Logistics Manager for VICAT from 2012 to 2018. Other notable roles he has held include working in logistics for Feka Construction, Industry & Trade and Omsan Logistics.

Australia: First Graphene has appointed Lester Lee as its Commercial Manager – Cement & Concrete. Singapore-based Lee holds nearly 30 years of experience working in the cement and concrete industries. This includes management roles in Hong Kong and Singapore with multinational companies such as Fosroc Construction Chemicals, K Wah Concrete Company and WR Grace.

First Graphene is an Australia-based supplier of graphitic materials and product formulations to sectors including cement and concrete, composites and plastics, coatings, adhesives, silicones and elastomers (CASE) and energy storage applications.

India: Sagar Cement has appointed KV Vishnu Raju as its chair. He succeeds K Thanu Pillai in the post.

Vishnu Raju is a graduate in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirapalli and he holds a master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Michigan Technological University in the US. He worked as an executive director and then managing director of Raasi Cements in the 1990s. He was later on the board of Anjani Portland Cement as its chair and managing director from 1999 to 2014.

Sagar Cement operates three integrated plants and two grinding plants in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Pradesh Telangana.

Spain: LafargeHolcim España has appointed Carmen Díaz appointed as its director general. She succeeds Isidoro Miranda in the position and will report to Miljan Gutovic, Region Head EMEA at Holcim Group.

Díaz trained as a chemical engineer from the University of Oviedo and has taken the General Management Program (PDG) from the IESE Business School. She started working for Lafarge in 2002 as the head of its concrete business in Spain. She held the position of VP Commercial Performance in 2014 with responsibility for 30 countries. Later she became the Head of Ready-Mix Commercial and then the General Manager for the ReadySet Mix Digital Venture. Most recently she was worked as the Commercial Director of Spain for LafargeHolcim.