Guillaume Roux (born in 1959) graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.
He joined Lafarge in 1980 as an internal auditor for Lafarge Cement, France. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Biochemicals Business in the United States in 1989, before returning to Lafarge headquarters in 1992 to head a mission for the Finance Department.
In 1996, he went back to the United States as Vice-President of Marketing for Lafarge North America (LNA, now Lafarge in North America).
In 1999, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lafarge's operations in Turkey and then in 2001, Executive Vice-President of Cement operations in Southeast Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Guillaume Roux joined the Executive Committee when he was appointed Executive Vice-President, Co-president of the Cement Business in January 2006. |