Changes to the Board of Directors of LafargeHolcim

The board of directors of 8161 LafargeHolcim will nominate Patrick Kron for election as a new board member at the group’s upcoming annual meeting on 3 May 3, 2017.

At the same time Philippe Dauman and Alexander Gut have taken the decision not to stand for re-election.

As communicated earlier, Bruno Lafont, currently co-chairman of the board of directors, has also decided that he will not stand for re-election.

“We are pleased to nominate Patrick Kron. He is an experienced leader with an extensive track record in transforming industrial companies. His skills will be highly complementary to the existing knowledge pool in our board,” says Beat Hess, chairman of the board of directors of LafargeHolcim.

“On behalf of the board, I would like to thank Bruno Lafont, Philippe Dauman and Alexander Gut for their many years of service and significant contributions to the success of LafargeHolcim.”

All other current members of the board of directors will be proposed for re-election at the annual meeting.

They are Beat Hess, chairman; Bertrand Collomb, Paul Desmarais, Jr, Oscar Fanjul, Gérard Lamarche, Adrian Loader, Jürg Oleas, Nassef Sawiris, Thomas Schmidheiny, Hanne B. Sørensen, and Dieter Spälti.

With the election of the nominees, the board of directors would consist of 12 members as compared to 14 today.