India: Nuvoco Vistas has appointed Abhijit Bhalerao as its chief information officer (CIO). He will be responsible for leading the technology initiatives at Nuvoco Group companies in business applications, enterprise architecture and infrastructure domains, according to the Economic Times of India newspaper.

Bhalerao was previously the Head of Group IT at Dr Abhay Firodia Group, including Force Motors, Jaya Hind Industries and several joint-ventures. He holds over 20 years of professional and technology consulting expertise using emerging technologies to deliver business-focused solutions. He has served as director at Ernst and Young and advised business chief executive officers on technology, infrastructure, IT architecture and organisation-wide analytics adoption. Other positions include working for HCL Technology, Essar, Raymond and Steelage Industries. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Software & Applications and a bachelor's degree in Engineering.

South Africa: Duan Classen, the Operations Executive of Sephaku Cement, has been appointed as its acting chief executive officer (CEO) following the admission of Pieter Fourie to hospital. The cement producer said that Fourie, its current CEO, had been receiving medical care after suffering a stroke and was responding well to treatment.

Classen has been a member of the executive management in charge of operations since the construction of Sephaku Cement’s plants. He holds a bachelor degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Pretoria, and has previously participated in the Young Managers Development Programme at INSEAD in France and a Management Development Programme at Duke University in the US. Classen completed his graduate engineer training at De Beers before joining Blue Circle Cement in 1997, where he was involved in Blue Circle Cement's integration into Lafarge in 1998. He subsequently worked for PPC before being appointed to DCSA in early 2008.

China: China Resources Cement has appointed Jing Shiqing as its vice president.

Jing joined China Resources Cement in 2003 working in various production technology, human resources management and administration management. He became the Deputy General Manager of the Human Resources Department in 2018 and became a non-executive director of the company in the same year. Jing holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Changsha University of Science and Technology and a master's degree of business administration from the Nanjing University.

Russia: LafargeHolcim Russia has appointed Andrey Polezhaev as the director of its integrated Schurovsky plant in Kolomna, Kaluga Oblast. He previously worked at the plant, from 2015 to 2017, as head of the repair service and has worked for the group since 1998.

The Schurovsky plant celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2020. Located close to Moscow, it has supplied cement for many well known infrastructure projects in the region including the reconstruction of the Luzhniki Stadium, which hosted the final of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the construction of runways at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports, the modernisation of the Kaluzhskoe highway and the creation of the Central Ring Road. It is also the only plant in Russia that produces white cement.