Saudi Arabia: Southern Province Cement has appointed Abdulsalam Al-Duraibi as its CEO. He will start his tenure on 1 December 2025.

Al-Duraibi holds experience in the financial and industrial sectors, having held several leadership and executive positions, most recently as the CEO of Najran Cement. He has also worked on the board of directors and specialised committees of several companies. Al-Duraibi holds a master's degree in Business Administration from Seattle University in the US, a bachelor's degree in Information Systems Management from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and is a chartered financial analyst.

Greece: Titan Group has hired Carlos Piles Puig as Head of Commercial Growth Europe & Group Head of Innovation.

Piles Puig previously worked for Bekaert in Belgium as its Vice President Building Segment & Operations and its Interim CEO. Prior to this he held roles at LafargeHolcim from 2017 to 2021 as the Head of Europe Ductal and then the Head of EMEA & Asia Ductal. Earlier in his career Piles Puig worked as an architect for companies including NBBJ Design, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Zaha Hadid Architects. He is an architecture graduate of the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain and holds a master’s of business administration (MBA) from the International Institute for Management Development.

Oman: Raysut Cement has appointed Rashid Ali as its Acting CEO. He started his tenure at the start of October 2025. The position will last for three months.

Ali was working as Group Chief Financial Officer and has taken on the role of Acting CEO in addition to this. He holds over 30 years of experience in automative, facilities management, real estate and retail sectors. Notably he worked for DAMAC, Jumeriah International and Renaissance. Ali is a registered chartered accountant.

US: Sublime Systems has appointed Rob Davies as its CEO. He succeeds Leah Ellis in the post. Ellis, who co-founded the company in 2020 says she will remain “actively engaged.”

Davies joined Sublime Systems in 2024 as an advisor and became its Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the start of 2025. He previously held the position of COO of 6K from 2022 to 2024. He worked for Cabot Corporation in a variety of roles from 2012 to 2022, eventually becoming its VP Global Manufacturing - Reinforcement Materials. Earlier in his career he was the president of Geocycle in the US from 2006 to 2010. He was the plant manager of cement plant in Portland, Colorado for Holcim from 2003 to 2006. Before this, he worked for Lafarge in the UK and Blue Circle in a number of positions including UK Technical Director and UK Operations Officer, and he managed a number of cement plants. Davies holds a master’s degree in mineral process engineering and a master of business administration (MBA) from the University of Warwick.