Annual Report on Form 20-F - CRH

BUSINESS REVIEW — Current Year
CRH Executive Management Team 1
Erik Bax
Managing Director Europe Products & Distribution
Albert Manifold
Chief Operating Officer
Nationality:
Dutch
Nationality:
Irish
Skills and experience: Erik joined CRH in 1984 and has worked in operational
and commercial roles in various operating companies. He has held a number
of senior management positions including Managing Director Europe Building
Products from 2003 and Managing Director Europe Distribution from 2007. Erik
was appointed Managing Director of Europe Products & Distribution in 2010.
Qualifications: B Eng, MBA.
Doug Black
Nationality:
President and Chief Operating Officer Oldcastle, Inc.
United States
Skills and experience: Doug started his career with CRH in 1995 as Vice
President of Business Development in Oldcastle, and the following year he helped
create the Oldcastle Distribution division. Doug was President of Oldcastle Precast
Southeast division from 1996 to 2000, was promoted to Chief Operating Officer,
Oldcastle Architectural in 2000 where he held the position of President and Chief
Executive Officer from 2002 to July 2006. Doug then moved to Oldcastle Materials
where he served two years as President before being appointed Chief Executive
Officer in 2008. He was appointed to his current position of President and Chief
Operating Officer, Oldcastle, in February 2012.
Qualifications: BS, MBA.
Skills and experience: Albert was appointed Chief Operating Officer of CRH
and to the CRH Board with effect from 1 January 2009. He joined CRH in 1998.
Prior to joining CRH he was Chief Operating Officer with a private equity group.
He has held a variety of senior positions, including Finance Director of the Europe
Materials Division and Group Development Director of CRH. Prior to his current
appointment, he was Managing Director of Europe Materials.
Qualifications: FCPA, MBA, MBS.
Henry Morris
Nationality:
Managing Director Europe Materials
Irish
Skills and experience: Henry joined Irish Cement Ltd. as a graduate. He held a
number of operational roles in CRH’s cement business prior to his appointment
as Managing Director of CRH’s Aerobord business in 1990. Henry left to join Barlo
Group plc in 1993 and returned to CRH in 2001 as Regional Director, Finland and
Switzerland. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer, Europe Materials in 2007
and Managing Director of the Europe Materials Division in January 2009.
Qualifications: BE, MBA.
Business Review
Maeve Carton Finance Director
Mark Towe
Chief Executive Officer Oldcastle, Inc.
Nationality:
Irish
Nationality:
United States
Skills and experience: Since joining CRH in 1988, Maeve has held a number
of roles in the Group Finance area and was appointed Group Controller in 2001,
Head of Group Finance in January 2009 and to the position of Finance Director
in May 2010. She has broad-ranging experience of CRH’s reporting, control,
budgetary and capital expenditure processes and has been extensively involved
in CRH’s evaluation of acquisitions. Prior to joining CRH, she worked for a number
of years as a chartered accountant in an international accountancy practice.
Qualifications: MA, FCA.
Skills and experience: Mark joined CRH in 1997 and was appointed a CRH
Board Director with effect from July 2008. In 2000, he was appointed President
of Oldcastle Materials, Inc. and became the Chief Executive Officer of this Division
in 2006. Mark was appointed to his current position of Chief Executive Officer of
Oldcastle, Inc. (the holding company for CRH’s operations in the Americas) in July
2008. With approximately 40 years of experience in the building materials industry,
he has overall responsibility for the Group’s aggregates, asphalt and readymixed
concrete operations in the United States and its products and distribution
businesses in the Americas.
Myles Lee
Nationality:
Chief Executive
Irish
Skills and experience: Myles joined CRH in 1982. Prior to this he worked
in a professional accountancy practice and in the oil industry. He was appointed
General Manager Finance in 1988 and to the position of Finance Director in
November 2003. A civil engineer and chartered accountant, he has 30 years’
experience of the building materials industry and of CRH’s international expansion.
He was appointed Group Chief Executive with effect from 1 January 2009.
Qualifications: BE, FCA.
1 For purposes of the Form 20-F, the Company considers Senior Management to include only the Executive Directors of the Board.
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