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China: Yang Yongzheng has resigned as a non-executive director of China Tianrui Group Cement Company due to a prison sentence. Yang has also resigned as a member of the group’s nomination committee. He has been replaced on the nomination committee by Li Liufa, the chairman of the company.

Spain: LafargeHolcim España has appointed Carmen Díaz as its commercial director. Díaz was previously the general manager of the group’s ReadySet Mix digital venture. She succeeds Simón Kronenberg in the post who has moved on to a new role with the group in Switzerland.

Díaz is a chemical engineer from the University of Oviedo and she also holds an MBA. She joined LafargeHolcim in 2002 and has held various roles including Area Manager in Madrid and the Vice President of Commercial Performance and Head of Ready Mix Commercial in France.

Australia: Boral has appointed Kathryn Fagg as chairman with effect from 1 July 2018. It follows the resignation of Brian Clark as chairman and a non-executive director due to health reasons. Clark has been a director of the company since 2007 and was elected chairman in late 2015.

Fagg, who joined the board in 2014, holds more than 25 years of executive and management experience across a range of industries in Australia and Asia, including steel based building products at BlueScope Steel, transport and logistics at Linfox Logistics Group, banking at ANZ and professional consulting services at McKinsey & Co.

Fagg commenced her professional career as a chemical engineer with Esso Australia, now Exxon Mobil. She holds a number of board positions, including as a non-executive director of Incitec Pivot and a non-executive director of Djerriwarrh Investments. She is the current president of Chief Executive Women and only recently completed a five year term as a director of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Boral has also appointed Peter Alexander as its first North American-based non-executive director, with effect from 1 September 2018. Alexander has spent eight years as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Building Materials Holding Corporation and then the merged company BMC. He was president and CEO of ORCO Construction Distribution from 2005 to 2009 and was managing partner of KinderOaks Business Services from 2002 to 2005. He holds a BA from the Ohio State University and an MBA from the Pennsylvania State University.

US: Cadence Environmental Energy has promoted Ted T Reese to Executive Vice President. Cadence provides technology for waste fuel recycling and emission reduction technology to the cement industry and is the exclusive supplier of waste-derived fuels for Ash Grove Cement. As part of the company’s succession plan founder Ted J Reese plans to hand over the presidency to Ted T Reese in 2019.

Finland: Carina Geber-Teir has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Communications by Cargotec. She will take the post by September 2018 at the latest. She will be responsible for leading communications, investor relations and sustainability function. She will be a member of Cargotec's Extended Executive Board and report to chief executive officer (CEO) Mika Vehviläinen. She succeeds Leena Lie, who has taken a new job at Huhtamäki Oyj.

Geber-Teir, aged 46 years, joins Cargotec from OP Financial Group, where she has been a member of the Executive Board and Chief Communications Officer since 2009. Prior to this she was Communications Director at Varma Mutual Pension Insurance.