People

India: Shri Sajjan Bhajanka has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Star Cement. He is a Commerce Graduate from Dibrugarh University, Assam. He has business and industrial experience of more than 25 years in the fields of plywood, ferro silicon and granite. He is the Managing Director of Century Plyboards (I) Limited, the largest producer of plywood, laminates and block-boards in India. Mr. Bhajanka is also the Chairman of Shyam Century Ferrous Ltd., one of the leading manufacturers of Ferro Silicon in India. He is also the President of the Federation of Indian Plywood and Panel Industry and All India Veneer Manufacturers Association.

Austria: Christoph Stotter has been appointed as the head of Development & Quality Assurance at w+p Zement. He succeeds Walter Steinwender, who had been working at the Wietersdorf plant since 2008. Stotter studied at the Montanuniversität in Leoben and has since gained experience in process engineering, research and development and product management.

India: Jorge Alejandro Wagner has been appointed as an additional director of Votorantim’s subsidiary Shree Digvijay Cement. Sven Erik Oppelstrupp Madsen has retired as a director following his departure from the role as chief executive officer (CEO) of one of Votorantim’s subsidiaries in Spain

Wagner holds a Master of Sciences in Management (MBA) from Pardue University Indiana in the US and a mechanical engineering degree from the Universidad Nacional de mar del Plata in Argentina. He started working for Votorantim Cimentos in 2002 in Brazil, later becoming the CEO for Spain in 2012. Prior to working for Votorantim he held roles with Esso Sapa, the Argentinean subsidiary of Exxon Mobil, and McKinsey & Company.

Denmark: Virve Elisabeth Meesak has resigned from FLSmidth as its Group Executive Vice President for Human Resources. She had been in post since 2013. She will leave the company by the end of January 2018.

UK: Samson Materials has appointed Dale Lockley as its managing director. He joined the subsidiary of Aumund in 2016 as Senior Project Manager and later worked as Program Delivery Manager. Lockley is a trained mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience working within and leading international multidisciplinary teams and developing materials handling technologies of worldwide operating companies, including more than seven years as managing director.