New board members proposed at LafargeHolcim Annual General Meeting 2020

The Board of Directors of LafargeHolcim will request its shareholders to approve at the Annual General Meeting the appointment of Professor Dr. Philippe Block and Mr. Kim Fausing as new members, adding perspectives from academia and the building industry to the board.

Professor Dr. Philippe Block, Belgian national, born in 1980, is Professor of Architecture and Structure at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. He is the Founder and Co-Director of the Block Research Group at ETH where his research focuses on the analysis of unreinforced masonry structures, structural design, computational form finding, and new construction techniques. He is also the Director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) for Digital Fabrication. Since 2014 he has served on the Academic Committee of the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Mr. Kim Fausing, Danish national born in 1964, began his professional career with the Hilti Group in Denmark 1990. He went on to run its operations, then took over country operations in Austria and Japan before becoming Division President at its headquarters in Liechtenstein. In 2007 Mr. Kim Fausing moved to the Danish Danfoss Group to assume the role of Chief Operating Officer. In January 2008 he became a member of its executive committee, which he has chaired since July 2017 as President and CEO.

Except for Paul Desmarais, Jr., all other existing members of the board will stand for re-election, with Mr. Beat Hess remaining as Chairman. Beat Hess, Chairman of the Board of Directors: “On behalf of the entire Board of Directors I would like to thank Paul Desmarais, Jr., for his generous contributions over the past years. He will be missed. At the same time, I am glad we can propose these two outstanding candidates. I’m confident they would strengthen our board’s expertise by adding vast experience with multinational corporations as well as the perspective of a renowned academic who has focused on creating sustainable solutions.”

In addition to the votes on election and re-election of the Board of Directors, shareholders will also be asked to vote on compensation and to consider a dividend proposal of CHF 2.00 per registered share of LafargeHolcim Ltd, to be paid from foreign capital contribution reserves and not subject to Swiss withholding tax.

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