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Spain: LafargeHolcim has appointed Verónica Martín Martínez as its new director of human resources and communication in Spain. She has nearly 20 years of experience in human resources working in both Spain and Latin America for a diverse range of companies in various sectors including chemical and automotive sectors. She will also join the management committee of LafargeHolcim Spain. Martín holds a degree in Law and Business Administration from the University of Deusto and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Instituto de Empresa.

Netherlands: Malvern Panalytical has appointed Mark Fleiner as its new president. Fleiner, who was previously Business Group Director of the Industrial Solutions Division of Spectris, moved into his new role at Malvern Panalytical on 1 May 2020. He succeeds Paolo Carmassi who spent over three years in the position. Carmassi has left the company to take up an external role. Malvern Panalytical is an analytical instrumentation and automation solutions provider that offers products to a variety of sectors including cement.

Australia: Boral has appointed Zlatko Todorcevski has been appointed its chief executive officer (CEO) and managing director with effect from 1 July 2020. Boral’s current CEO and managing director, Mike Kane, will retire in September 2020 allowing for a transition period.

Todorcevski has 30 years of experience in Australia and internationally in steel building products, oil and gas and logistics, working in finance, business planning and strategy roles, including as chief financial officer (CFO) of Brambles from 2012 to 2016 and Oil Search from 2009 to 2012. This followed a 23-year career at BHP in finance and business development roles across BHP’s steel building products and petroleum businesses, culminating in the role of CFO Energy at BHP based in the US.

Since March 2017, Todorcevski has been on the board of construction materials company, Adelaide Brighton, where he has served as chairman and since May 2019 as deputy chairman and Lead Independent Director. He has stepped down from the board of Adelaide Brighton with immediate effect. Todorcevski is also on the board of Coles Group, where he serves as chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee, and The Star Entertainment Group, where he is chair of the Audit Committee. He will leave these boards in an orderly manner over the coming months.

Born in Macedonia and raised in Australia, Todorcevski completed a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong in 1991 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wollongong in 1994.

UK: Lafarge Cement, part of Aggregate Industries and LafargeHolcim, has appointed John Mulgrew as the new plant manager of its Cookstown integrated cement plant in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He succeeds Russell Larmour who is to retire after 40 years within the company. Mulgrew will report to Barry Hope, Head of Cement on the Executive Committee at Aggregate Industries.

Mulgrew joined the LafargeHolcim Group as a quality co-ordinator in 2001, holding almost 20 years of experience in the cement industry. He became production manager at the Cookstown plant in 2016. The company says that the plant achieved its best results to date in 2019 after being ranked in the top 10 of LafargeHolcim’s European cement plants when evaluated against industrial benchmarks.

Jason Bowman will succeed Mulgrew as the new production manager at the plant. He has been promoted from his current role as manufacturing manager at Cookstown.

US: Germany’s Beumer Group has appointed Joseph Dzierzawski as the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Beumer Corporation, its US subsidiary based in Somerset, New Jersey. He has been in post since April 2020. He is responsible for the Conveying & Loading Systems, Palletizing and Packaging Technology, and Sortation and Distribution Systems business lines in the North American market.

Dzierzawski holds a degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan. Later he attended executive management programs at the University of Michigan School of Business and the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. He joins Beumer from Hatch Metals & Minerals group where he worked as Global Director, Technology & Business Development. Prior to this he worked at SMS, where he held a series of positions, eventually serving as president and CEO for SMS USA and Chief Technology Officer for SMS Group.