Türkiye: Çimsa Çimento has appointed Baran Çelik as its General Manager.

Çelik worked for OYAK Group in various roles from 2017 to 2025. During this period he was the chief financial officer (CFO) of OYAK Cement, Concrete and Paper Group, CFO of OYAK Group and a member of the executive committee of OYAK Group. From mid-2025 he was a member of the board of directors of OYAK Turkoman Investment. He previously held financial roles with Çimsa Çimento from 2011 to 2017, eventually becoming its CFO. He started his career at Ernst & Young and also worked for PepsiCo Southeast Europe. Çelik holds an undergraduate degree in international trade from Boğaziçi University.

Pakistan: Thatta Cement has appointed Sidra Zakir as Chief Financial Officer. She succeeds Muhammad Owais in the role.

UK: Holcim has appointed Adham El Sharkawy as the CEO of its UK business. He succeeds Danny King in the role, who has been working as Interim CEO. King will continue working for Holcim UK as Managing Director for Aggregates, Asphalt and Contracting.

El Sharkawy has worked for Holcim and related companies since the late 2000s. In 2025 he became the CEO of Holcim’s business in Algeria. This followed similar country CEO roles in Iraq in 2020 and UAE in 2017. Prior to this he was the General Manager of LafargeHolcim Readymix UAE and the Commercial Director UAE & Export Markets. Earlier in his career he worked for British American Tabacco and PepsiCo. El Sharkawy holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the American University in Cairo.

Egypt: Geocycle Egypt has appointed Mohamed Gouda as its General Manager.

Gouda has worked for Holcim and related companies in Egypt since the mid-2000s. He started working for Holcim Egypt as a Process Engineer in 2006 and then became Regional Process Expert - MEA in 2009. Other notables roles included becoming Regional HLC Project Manager - MEA in 2018 and Decarbonisation and Innovation Director in 2023. Gouda is a graduate in chemical engineering from Cairo University.