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Trinidad & Tobago: Trinidad Cement (TCL) has appointed Gonzalo Rueda Castillo as its General Manager and Roberto Adrian Villarreal Villarreal as its Group Strategic Planning Manager.

Rueda succeeds Guillermo Rojo de Diego as General Manager. As part of the role, Rueda will also oversee the operations of TCL’s business units in Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana. Rueda has over 25 years professional experience, and most recently held the position of Vice President – Commercial at Cemex Colombia.

Villarreal will replace Gustavo Alejandro Ruiz Silva as Group Strategic Planning Manager. Ruiz will take up another position within the Cemex Group. Villarreal has been domiciled in the Caribbean for approximately 10 years, and most recently held the position of General Manager with responsibility for the operations of TCL’s business units in Barbados and Guyana, namely, Arawak Cement Company Limited and TCL Guyana.

Saudi Arabia: Al Qura Cement has appointed Abdullah Abdulaziz Suleiman Alabdulatif as its chair. Saud Mahamed Ali Al Sabhan has been appointed as the Vice Chair. Both positions started in early July 2024 and will last until early July 2027.

India: Sumnesh Khandelwal has resigned as the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of JK Cements. He has been in post since late 2021. Prior to this he was the Deputy President – Commercial for JMC Projects and was the CEO of Robo Silicon Private. Earlier in his career he spent nearly 20 years working for UltraTech Cement, eventually becoming a Joint Executive President. Khandelwal is a chartered account affiliated to The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Mexico: Cementos Moctezuma has appointed Fortino Delgado Carrillo as its Director of Legal Affairs. He succeeds Belen Molins Benavent in the post.

Delgado has worked as Senior Legal Manager Litigation for Cementos Moctezuma since early 2021. Before this he held a variety of corporate legal roles for companies, including Monere Business, Inter-Con Security Systems and MultiPack. He also worked as the Director General for the National Human Rights Commission Mexico. Delgado holds law qualifications from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

UK: MQP (Midland Quarry Products) has appointed Andrew Boileau as its managing director. He succeeds Rick Green, who has retired after a 40-year career in the industry, taking responsibility for MQP’s three quarries and 10 asphalt plants located across the Midlands. MQP is a subsidiary of Heidelberg Materials.

Boileau previously worked as the Programme Director for STARK Building Materials. He has also held various senior roles at Saint-Gobain, including Managing Director of Gibbs and Dandy.