Sources: LafargeHolcim, Chicago; CP staff
LafargeHolcim has named Toufic Tabbara as chief executive officer of U.S. Cement operations. He arrives with more than 20 years’ experience in Lafarge North America and overseas ready mixed concrete, asphalt and gypsum businesses, and most recently oversaw similar operations, plus cement production, as Country CEO for Jordan, then Algeria. Tabbara holds undergraduate and graduate business administration degrees from American University in Beirut and Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. He succeeds Jamie Gentoso, who has been appointed global head of the LafargeHolcim Solutions & Products Business Unit and Group Executive Committee member.