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India: Sunil Kumar has resigned as the managing director of RCC Cements. He said he was unable to devote his time to company business.

Finland: Coolbrook has appointed Joonas Rauramo as its chief executive officer. In this role he will be responsible for overseeing the transition from a research and development focused organisation to a commercial-led business with the aim of partnering with the large companies in petrochemical, steel and cement sectors. Rauramo succeeds Harri Johannesdahl in the role, who has chosen to take a less hands-on role at the business and will stay on in an advisory capacity.

Rauramo joined Coolbrook in late 2021 as its Executive Vice President, Strategy and Industrial Partnerships. Prior to this he worked for the Finland-based energy company Fortum for over a decade.

Finland-based Coolbrook is a technology and engineering company that is developing processes to replace the burning of fossil fuels in major industrial sectors. Its RDH has potential applications in cement, steel and chemical production process. Its Roto Dynamic Reactor (RDR) is intended to eliminate CO₂ emissions from the steam cracking process used in the production of plastic.

Look out for an interview with Joonas Rauramo in the September 2022 issue of Global Cement Magazine

UK: Ireland-based Ecocem has appointed Mark Till as its National Sales Manager for the UK. His role will include overseeing commercial operations across the company's UK bases, strengthening existing customer relationships, working on specifications from engineers and architects and developing opportunities in new markets. Till has worked for Ecocem since 2019 as the UK Regional Sales Manager. Prior to this he worked for Oscrete Construction Products in sales roles from 2011 and for Brett Aggregates from 2002.

Greece: Titan Cement has appointed Marcel Cobuz as the chair of its executive committee. He will succeed Dimitri Papalexopoulos in the post from 15 October 2022. Papalexopoulos, in turn, will become the chair of the board of directors, succeeding Efstratios-Georgios Arapoglou.

Cobuz, a French and Romanian national, has worked for Holcim and its associated companies for over 20 years. He joined Lafarge Group in 2000 and has held various leadership roles in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He later became the Europe Region Head for LafargeHolcim from 2018 to 2021. Prior to his time at Lafarge, Cobuz started his career in investment banking at Creditanstalt Investment Bank and worked as an entrepreneur in Romania. He studied law and economics in Bucharest, completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and has attended executive programs at INSEAD, the IMD Business School and Singularity Group.

Egypt: Lafarge Egypt has appointed Jimmy Khan as its chief executive officer (CEO).

Khan has worked for Holcim, LafargeHolcim and Lafarge for 18 years. Notable positions include becoming Head of Business Processes, Internal Control and Audit - Nigeria in 2013, CEO of LafargeHolcim Mauritius and Seychelles in 2015 and Country CEO of Zambia in 2018. He is a graduate of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech in the US.