Nigeria: Dangote Cement has appointed Guillaume Moyen as its group chief financial officer (CFO).

Moyen joined Dangote Cement in February 2019 as group CFO (operations) and was appointed acting group chief financial officer in March 2019. He is in charge of finance and information technology (IT) and has more than 20 years’ experience in multi-national industrial and services companies notably operating in emerging and frontier markets.

During his career he has worked in finance, risk management, internal control, audit, information technology and procurement working in senior positions in manufacturing, engineering, oil and gas, nuclear energy, mining and consulting sectors notably with the Areva Group, the Ola Energy Group and KPMG. Guillaume is a chartered accountant and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Columbia Business School.

China: Germany-based Schmersal Group has appointed Michele Seassaro as the managing director of Schmersal Industrial Switchgear based in Shanghai. He has been managing the group’s China-based subsidiary since the start of March 2021.

Seassaro, aged 52 years, was born in Milan, Italy and has more than 20 years of international management experience, including in Europe, North Africa and Asia Pacific. Over the past ten years, he has held senior positions in various companies in the consumer goods and food industry in China. He holds a law background as well as an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and studied the Chinese language at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Schmersal operates a production plant in the Qingpu district of Shanghai. It produces position and safety switches as well as lift switchgear for the Asian market. The company also operates a number of sales offices across China.

UK: CRH subsidiary Tarmac has appointed Chris Bradbury as the plant manager at its integrated Dunbar cement plant in East Lothian, Scotland. He previously worked at Tarmac’s Tunstead plant in Derbyshire. Bradbury began working in the cement industry as an apprentice in 1994 and has held many roles at plants both in the UK and in Nigeria and the Philippines.

Switzerland: LafargeHolcim has expanded former chief sustainability officer Magali Anderson’s role to chief sustainability and innovation officer. The new role additionally includes leadership of the group’s research and development strategy and organisation. Anderson will also oversee external innovation collaborations with the academic world. The group says that the combination of sustainability and innovation aims to increase impact across both areas.

Chief executive officer Jan Jenisch said, “I am delighted to appoint Magali as our chief sustainability and innovation officer. Under her leadership, we opened a new chapter in our climate action with our Net Zero pledge and growing range of green building solutions, from ECOPact to Ecolabel. Sustainability is a game-changer in our industry and innovation is the most effective catalyst to scale up our impact. By aligning our sustainability and research and development organisations under Magali’s direction, I look forward to stepping up our pace and pipeline of innovation to build a net zero future.”

Anderson, a French national and mechanical engineer, holds international industry experience, acquired in a variety of general management, operational and functional roles in countries such as Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia, Angola, Romania and China. She joined LafargeHolcim in 2016 as Head of Health & Safety before taking on the role of Chief Sustainability Officer. She is on the advisory boards of the World Green Building Council (WGBC), MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium, LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction and Business for Nature, as well as co-chair of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Built Environment and the Global Concrete and Cement Association (GCCA) 2050 roadmap projects. She is also a mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) in Paris, a nonprofit organisation that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.

LafargeHolcim publishes its first Climate Transition report in 2022.