Jean-Carlos Angulo nominated Non-Executive Chairman of Lafarge India

Lafarge India Private Limited (Lafarge India), a leader in building material solutions, announces that Mr. Jean-Carlos Angulo, Executive Vice President Lafarge Group replaces Mr. Uday Khanna as Non-Executive Chairman of Lafarge India. The announcement took place at Lafarge India’s quarterly Board Meeting held last week. The Board thanked Mr. Uday Khanna for his contribution to the development of Lafarge India. He will stay on with the company in an advisory role.

Mr. 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. Mr. 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. (A more detailed profile of Mr. Angulo is provided in the Notes to Editors section.)

Mr. 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. Mr. Khanna joined the Lafarge Group in Paris in 2003 as Senior Vice President of Group Strategy following a 30-year international career with Hindustan Lever/Unilever.

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Lafarge in India

Lafarge, a world leader in building materials, started operations in India in 1999. Today, it has an established presence across major cities and towns in India. The company offers comprehensive solutions for housing, road and railroads, infrastructure, and public/private buildings through its Cement, Aggregates and Ready Mix Concrete businesses. It seeks to build real partnerships with architecture firms, structural consultants, contractors and various stakeholders in the construction chain. Lafarge India provides innovative products and solutions for the local market, while promoting sustainable construction to help build better cities. [www.lafarge.in]

About Lafarge

A world leader in building materials, Lafarge employs 64,000 people in 62 countries, and posted sales of EUR 15.2 billion in 2013. As a top-ranking player in its Cement, Aggregates and Concrete businesses, it contributes to the construction of cities around the world, through its innovative solutions providing them with more housing and making them more compact, more durable, more beautiful, and better connected. With the world's leading building materials research facility, Lafarge places innovation at the heart of its priorities in order to contribute to more sustainable construction and to better serve architectural creativity.

Jean Carlos Angulo

Jean Carlos Angulo (1949) is a graduate of the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (France) and the European Institute for Business Administration. He began his career as a project engineer in the aerospace industry at Société Européenne de Propulsion SEP (1971 to 1974) in Bordeaux.

In 1975 Mr. 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. In 1996 he was appointed as General Manager of Lafarge Ciments in France. From 2000 to 2007, he was President of the Cement business operations in Western Europe and Morocco.

From 2007 to August 2013 Mr. 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.