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Australia: Tino La Spina has resigned as the Chief Finance & Strategy Officer of Boral. The board of the company intends to provide notice of termination on 1 July 2022. La Spina, who was previously the chief executive officer (CEO) of airline Qantas International took the role at Boral in late 2020. Jared Gashel will immediately assume the role of Acting Chief Financial Officer until a permanent appointment is made. Gashel is currently working as Executive General Manager, Group Finance and Property.

In a statement, Boral’s chief executive officer Ryan Stokes said, “In a tough external operating environment, we have decided to accelerate transformational change.” Stokes became CEO of Boral in mid-2021 when his family’s company Seven Group became a majority shareholder.

Taiwan: Taiwan Cement has appointed Emerson Chang appointed as its Chief Information Security Officer. Chang became a director of Taiwan Cement in 2020. Prior to this he worked as the Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Manager for consumer electronics company Compal Communication for over 10 years.

Nigeria: Joseph Oyeyani Makoju, former managing director of Dangote Cement and advisor to Aliko Dangote, died in hospital in Abuja on 11 April 2022 whilst suffering from a heart condition. He was 73 years old, according to the Daily Independent newspaper. Makoju, an engineer by training, also served as a Special Advisor for Electrical Power under the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.

Following a career in the Nigerian power sector, Makoju worked internationally for Shell-BP, Blue Circle Cement in the UK and for West Africa Portland Cement Company (WAPCO), part of Lafarge. He joined Dangote Cement in 2009 as Special Advisor to Aliko Dangote and was subsequently promoted to chief executive officer / Group Managing Director in April 2018. He retired from the company in January 2020.

Mexico: Corporación Moctezuma has appointed Julio Rodríguez Izquierdo as the chair of its board of directors. This follows the resignation of Enrico Buzzi from the post. The change is a planned and periodic rotation of the holder of the role between the company’s two controlling shareholders: Spain-based Cementos Molins and Italy-based Buzzi Unicem. Together, the European cement companies own a 66.7% share of Corporación Moctezuma.

Rodriguez Izquierdo, a 60-year-old Spanish national, is the chief executive officer of Cementos Molins. Prior to becoming the head of Cementos Molins in 2015, he worked for over 30 years at Schneider Electric in a variety of roles before becoming the Executive Vice President Global Operations in 2011.

Pakistan: Power Cement has appointed Irfan Sikander Bawa as its chief financial officer. He succeeds Tahir Iqbal.