Future board of directors of LafargeHolcim nominated
Holcim and Lafarge announce 14 candidates nominated for election at Holcim EGM in May
IN the framework of their proposed €42 billion merger of equals, the boards of directors (BoD) of Holcim and Lafarge have nominated their candidates for the future board of directors of the combined company, subject to closing of the transaction.
The designated board of directors will consist of 14 members, seven from Lafarge and seven from Holcim, who are due to be elected at the Holcim Extraordinary General Meeting on 8 May 2015.
The candidates are:
- Wolfgang Reitzle, co-chairman (currently chairman of the BoD of Holcim)
- Bruno Lafont, co-Chairman (currently chairman of the BoD and CEO of Lafarge)
- Beat Hess, vice-chairman (currently deputy chairman of the BoD of Holcim)
- Bertrand Collomb (currently honorary chairman of Lafarge)
- Philippe Dauman (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
- Paul Desmarais Jr. (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
- Oscar Fanjul (currently vice-chairman of the BoD of Lafarge)
- Alexander Gut (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
- Gérard Lamarche (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
- Adrian Loader (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
- Nassef Sawiris (currently member of the BoD of Lafarge)
- Thomas Schmidheiny (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
- Hanne Birgitte Breinbjerg Sørensen (currently member of the BoD of Holcim)
- Dieter Spälti (currently member of the BoD of Holcim).
Subject to the execution and completion of the merger project, Anne Wade and Jürg Oleas will resign from their office as members of the board of directors at Holcim with effect from the date of completion.
Last week it was announced that Eric Olsen, Lafarge’s vice-president of operations, has been appointed as future chief executive officer of LafargeHolcim.
