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Egypt: Sinai Cement has appointed Wael Abdrabbou as Head of Finance.

Abdrabbou has worked in financial management roles at the subsidiary of France-based Vicat since 2020. Before this he held accounting roles for the bags unit of Lafarge Egypt from 2004. He eventually became the division’s Chief Accountant from 2014 to 2020. Abdrabbou holds an accounting degree from Mansoura University and a master of business administration from the Arab Academy For Banking And Financial Science.

Türkiye: Medcem Cement has appointed Emre Karabulut as Group Manager of Information Technologies and Digitalisation. He has worked in information management roles at Medcem Cement for over a decade. Prior to this he held software engineering positions with chemicals manufacturer Organik Kimya and various software companies.

US: Ed Sullivan has resigned as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the Portland Cement Association (PCA) with effect from 1 March 2025.

Sullivan holds over 40 years’ experience in industrial economic analysis. He has been in post at the PCA since 2002 where he led a team of economists delivering market research. Prior positions include vice president roles at Chase Manhattan Bank Economics, Standard & Poor’s and Wharton Economics. He also spent a period working as a senior intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and as an economist within the Office of Senator Edward Kennedy. He has taught economics at St. Joseph’s and Villanova Universities in Philadelphia, Fairfield University in Connecticut, as well as Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York City.

Mexico: Cemex has announced that its CEO, Fernando Gonzalez, will retire after 35 years with the company. The company’s board of directors has appointed Jaime Muguiro, current head of US operations, to succeed him. The changes will be effective on 1 April 2025.

Spain: Ciment Català, the Catalan Cement Manufacturers Association, has appointed Albert Avellaneda Bargués as its director. He previously worked as the head of the Best Available Techniques (BAT) section of the General Direction of Climate Change and Environmental Quality as part of the Government of Catalonia. He holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.