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US: CRH has appointed Nancy Buese as its chief financial officer (CFO). She will be based in New York. She succeeds Alan Connolly in the post, who was working as interim CFO. Connolly will return to his previous role as Director of Strategic Finance in May 2025.

Buese previously worked as Executive Vice President and CFO at Baker Hughes Company and Newmont Corporation. She has also served as Executive Vice President and CFO at MarkWest Energy Partners and MPLX and was a partner at Ernst & Young. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas.

US: Titan America has appointed Jason Morin as the president of its Florida-based division. He succeeds Randy Dunlap in the post. Dunlap will continue to work for Titan America as Executive Director, Growth & Strategy.

Morin started his career in the cement sector when he joined Holcim in 2001. He held the roles of production manager, plant manager, Vice President of Environmental & Government Affairs and Vice President of Manufacturing for the company. He joined Summit Materials’ Continental Cement division in 2015. Then in 2021 he became the CEO of Black Mountain Sand, where he worked until 2023. After this he founded Rearden Advisors, a consultancy providing industrial clients with advisory services in the areas of operational excellence and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Prior to 2021, Morin was an officer in the US Army and worked for General Electric in strategic sourcing and operations leadership roles. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Clarkson University in engineering and management and a master’s of business administration from Missouri State University.

Titan America’s Florida Business Unit includes the Pennsuco cement plant and adjacent aggregate plant, as well as 40 ready-mix concrete plants, three quarries, eight concrete block plants, two fly ash plants, along with rail and marine import terminals.

US: Carbon Upcycling Technologies has appointed Markus Kritzler as its Chief Revenue Officer.

Kritzler previously worked as Head of Group Strategy at LafargeHolcim in the mid 2010s. He later became the Director of Strategy, Marketing and Innovation at Holcim México. More recently he was the managing director of Ingenia Capital in Mexico. Kritzler holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México and a master of business administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Carbon Upcycling sells technology that enhances supplementary cementitious materials through methods such as capturing and utilising CO₂ emissions.

Türkiye: OYAK Çimento has appointed Turhan Erkayiram as the Plant Director of the Bolu cement plant.

Erkayiram previously worked as the plant manager of the İskenderun plant. Before this he held production manager roles with the company. Earlier in his career he worked for Vicat Group Türkiye, Limak Group and Aşkale Cement. He is a graduate in chemical engineering from Atatürk University.

India: Ambuja Cements has appointed Vinod Bahety as its CEO for a three-year term. He succeeds Ajay Kapur in the post, who has been appointed as the company’s managing director. Other personnel changes include the appointment of Rakesh Tiwary as chief financial officer (CFO), Madhavi Isanaka as Chief Digital Officer, Vaibhav Dixit as Head of Manufacturing and Ashwin Raikundaliya as Chief Sustainability Officer.

Bahety has worked as the company’s CFO since mid-2022. He holds over 25 years of experience in various management positions in the manufacturing and finance sectors. Before joining the cement industry, he was the Group Head for Merger & Acquisition at Adani Group. He holds qualifications as a chartered accountant and a cost and works accountant.