Russia: Siberian Cement Holding Company (SibCem) has appointed Andrey Rubtsov as its marketing director. He was previously the general director of Iskitimcement, a subsidiary of SibCem. Rubtsov holds a degree in management from the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA). He has worked in the cement industry since 2001.

Germany: Beumer Group has appointed Alexander Tigges as the director of global sales for its Conveying & Loading Systems division. He succeeds Andrea Prevedello, who was appointed as chief executive officer of Beumer Group Austria earlier in the year. Tigges, aged 51 years, previously worked for Germany-based ThyssenKrupp in product and sales managerial roles for its cement plant manufacturing subsidiary.

India: Birla Corporation has appointed Arvind Pathak as its managing director and chief executive director (CEO). He will succeed Pracheta Majumdar from 31 March 2021.
Pathak holds 36 years of experience in the cement industry. He has held CEO or equivalent positions for over 14 years in various large organisations which include ACC, Dangote Cement, Adani and Reliance Group. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi and a postgraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. He has also been trained in a number of international management institutions.

Philippines: Horia Adrian has been appointed as the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Holcim Philippines. He succeeds John Stull will be reassigned to another position within LafargeHolcim Group after three years in the post.

Adrian is a graduate of the masters degree programme in business administration at Anjou University in South Korea and of the bachelors and masters programme in mechanical engineering at ‘Dunărea de Jos’ University in Galați in Romania. He joined the LafargeHolcim Group in 2000 as a project manager for Holcim Romania’s Ready-mix and Aggregates Division. Between 2004 and 2010 he was the sales, marketing and logistics director, and respectively the CEO, of Garadagh Cement in Azerbaijan. He later became the CEO of Romania and Market Head Emerging Europe in 2018.