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UK: Breedon Group plans to appoint Rob Wood as its Group Chief Executive in 2021. He is currently the Group Finance Director. Recruitment for a new Group Finance Director is underway. This will follow the retirement of current head Pat Ward who has held the post since early 2016.

Sri Lanka: Insee Cement has appointed Gustavo Navarro as its chief executive officer (CEO) of its operations in Sri Lanka. He succeeds Nandana Ekanayake, according to the Nation newspaper. Ekanayake will remain at the company as chairman of the board. Navarro has previously held chief executive positions for Holcim in Serbia and Russia, and for CRH in Romania.

Nigeria: BUA Cement has appointed Jacques Piekarski as its chief financial officer (CFO).

Piekarski holds over 26 years of experience in finance with executive level roles in cement, trading, mining and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG). Prior to joining BUA Cement, he was Group CFO for TGI Group Nigeria, a food and agricultural conglomerate, and he held the same role at Flour Mills of Nigeria. His knowledge of the cement industry comes from working as the CFO for Holcim in Egypt with a joint venture with the Orascom Group.

A Swiss and French National, Piekarski was born in Switzerland. He is a graduate from the Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and holds an MBA from the Robert Kennedy College in Zurich, Switzerland.

Ireland: Senan Murphy intends to retire as Group Finance Director of CRH in 2021. He will remain in post until the group’s board successor finds a successor to ensure a smooth transition. Murphy has been in the post since mid-2015.

Oman: Raysut Cement has appointed Salim Ahmed Alawi Al-Ibrahim as Acting Deputy Group chief executive officer (CEO). He will support Raysut’s Group CEO Joey Ghose in the role. Salim has been with Raysut Group since 2014 and has been described as ‘contributing significantly’ to the company in the sales department.

Mohammed Ahmed Aideed has also been promoted as the Acting General Manager of Raysut Cement. Mohammed holds over a decade of experience in sales and marketing and has been working with Raysut Cement since 2009. He started his career as a sales representative and subsequently moved up to managerial positions. He has also held senior positions such as Head of Marketing and Business Intelligence, Acting CEO and Head of Business Support.