Colombia: Holcim Colombia has appointed Carlos Casado as CEO.

Casado has worked for Holcim and Lafarge for over 25 years. He started as an Industrial Engineer for Lafarge in Spain in 2000. He became the plant manager at the Milaki Plant for Heracles Cement in Greece in 2008. Other prominent positions included becoming the Global Head of Maintenance, Lafarge Group, & Regional Director Technology for Lafarge Asia in 2013; Industrial Director for LafargeHolcim China in 2015; Chief Operating Officer for LafargeHolcim Argentina in 2018; and Industrial Director Western Europe for Holcim in 2024. Casado holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain and has completed specialised leadership programmes at the INSEAD and INALDE international business schools.

US: Titan Group has appointed Jimmy Khan as Regional Head East Med & MEA.

Khan previously worked as Regional President for Amrize from mid-2025. Before this, he worked for Holcim and LafargeHolcim in a variety of roles from 2005 to 2025. Notable roles included Country CEO Lafarge Egypt from 2022 to 2025, Country CEO Zambia from 2018 to 2021 and CEO LafargeHolcim Mauritius and Seychelles from 2015 to 2018. This followed earlier accountancy, human resources and auditing positions. Khan holds an undergraduate degree in accounting and information systems from the Pamplin College of Business.

US: CemAI has appointed Andrew Crose as CEO. Crose recently worked as the Head of Strategic Markets at APTIV. His previous roles include Chief Commercial Officer at Xerotech, Vice President and General Manager of the Autonomous Mining Division at Hexagon and managing director for EMEA and Growth Strategy at Hexagon. Crose holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Melbourne, Australia, a graduate diploma in AI and Big Data Analysis from University College Dublin, Ireland, and an undergraduate degree in Marketing and Management Information Systems from Southern Illinois University, US.

Crose succeeds Scott Ziegler in the role. Ziegler, who has been CEO since the company’s founding, will “transition to new opportunities.”

Algeria: Holcim has appointed Ali Said as the CEO of its business in Algeria.

Said previously worked as the CEO UAE & Oman following general manager roles in the UAE, Jordan and Iraq. He started working for the group in 2014 as a chief financial officer in Iraq. Earlier in his career, he was the finance director for Cemena in Bahrain and held an accounting role for Lafarge Canada. Said is a graduate of McGill University and holds a master’s in business administration (MBA) from the Université du Québec à Montréal.