LafargeHolcim's board will nominate Patrick Kron at the group’s annual general meeting on May 3, 2017.
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Philippe Dauman, Alexander Gut, and Bruno Lafont, who is currently co-chairman will not stand for re-election.
Patrick Kron, French born in 1953, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Paris Ecole des Mines, France.
Previous posts held include running Pechiney’s Food and Health Care Packaging Sector where he was chief operating officer of of the American National Can Company in Chicago, United States.
Prposed for re-election at the AGM are:
- Beat Hess, chairman
- Bertrand Collomb
- Paul Desmarais, Jr
- Oscar Fanjul
- Gérard Lamarche
- Adrian Loader
- Jürg Oleas
- Nassef Sawiris
- Thomas Schmidheiny
- Hanne B Sørensen
- Dieter Spälti
With the election of the nominees, the board has 12 members compared to 14 today.