Lafarge India, one of the leader in building material solutions, announced that Jean-Carlos Angulo, Executive Vice President Lafarge Group replaces Uday Khanna as Non-Executive Chairman of Lafarge India. The announcement took place at Lafarge India?s quarterly Board mee?ting held last week. The Board thanked Uday Khanna for his contribution to the development of Lafarge India. He will stay on with the company in an advisory role. Uday Khanna has served as Lafarge India?s Non-Executive Chairman since July 2011. Prior to this, he led the company as Managing Director and CEO from July 2005.
Jean-Carlos Angulo has spent most of his career in Lafarge; a company he joined in 1975 and in which he held various regional and international positions. Angulo brings a rich and diverse experience in the construction materials industry. He is presently Executive Vice President Lafarge Group with a role as Advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge Group.
Jean Carlos Angulo joined Lafarge, where he was successively Project Manager and Project Director in Group engineering subsidiaries (plant construction). He then became General Manager of Lafarge Consulteria e Estudos in Brazil. In 1984 Mr. Angulo joined Lafarge Aluminates as Head of Development. From 1990 to 1996 he was General Manager of Lafarge?s Brazil operations and Head of the Southern region of Latin America. He was President of the Cement business operations in Western Europe and Morocco. From 2007 to August 2013 Angulo was Lafarge Group Executive Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee, first as Co-President of the Cement Division then as EVP Operations. Since September 1st, 2013 he is advisor to Bruno Lafont, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge.