French company Lafarge appoints first Romanian to lead local operations

Romanian Costin Borc will be the new CEO of French construction materials producer Lafarge’s subsidiary in Romania, as of September 1, 2013, the company has announced. He will be replacing Sonia Artinian, recently appointed Deputy General Manager, Organization and Human Resources within the group. Costin Borc is the first Romanian to lead the French company’s local operations in the last 16 years. Between 2008 and 2013, he was CEO of Lafarge Serbia. Borc started his career within Lafarge Group in the US and afterwards, he managed the concrete and aggregates division of Lafarge Romania for four years. On April 1, 2006, he was promoted Regional Director of Development and Strategy on the cement business. Costin Borc holds a PhD in Economics, Macro-economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison and he graduated from the Bucharest Polytechnic University. Lafarge Group has been active on the Romanian market since 1997 and operates three integrated business lines: cement, aggregates and concrete. The company has 40 industrial sites across Romania and 1,000 employees and collaborators. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com