US: Amrize has appointed Sam Poletti as its Chief Financial Officer. He succeeds Baris Oran in the role, who is resigning for personal reasons.

Poletti has been a member of Amrize’s Executive Committee as its Chief Strategy and M&A Officer since the company’s formation in 2025. Before this, he worked for Holcim Group companies from 2007 starting as Senior Consultant, Management Consulting. In 2012 he took the role of Head of Strategy Development, Investments and Financial Planning at Ambuja Cements in Group Head of M&A in 2018. He has also worked for Leica. Poletti holds qualifications including a master’s degree in law and economics from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

India: IKN Engineering India has appointed Sridhar Shanmugha Sundaram as its CEO.

Shanmugha Sundaram previously worked as the Senior Vice President, Head of Sales & Marketing at Gebr. Pfieffer in India from 2024 to mid-2026. Before this, he held various roles at FLSmidth in India starting as Head of Product Sales in 2012 and eventually becoming     Vice President, Head of Global Product Line - Grinding and Gears in 2023. Shanmugha Sundaram is a graduate in engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, and holds an executive masters of business administration qualification from the Copenhagen Business School.

Thailand: Siam City Cement has appointed Federico Vasello as its Group Chief Financial Officer from 1 November 2026. He succeeds Ranjan Sachdeva in the post.

US: Amrize has appointed Tracy Crowther as the plant manager of its Ste. Genevieve cement plant in Missouri.

Crowther previously worked as the plant manager at Heidelberg Materials North America’s Mitchell cement plant in Indiana from 2020 to 2023. Before this he was the plant manager at Lehigh Hanson’s Logansport cement plant in Indiana from 2015. Earlier in his career he worked for Martin Marietta in the mid 2010s and for TXI from 2000 to 2014. Crowther holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a master’s of business administration (MBA) qualification from the TCU Neeley School of Business.