Mr. Roberto Callieri

Mr. Roberto Callieri, aged 60 years, completed his Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Cagliari in 1990 and Financial Management from Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He has also completed Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.

Mr. Callieri joined Italcementi Group in 1990, where he held several senior management positions in Puerto Rico, USA, Canada, Turkey, Thailand, Egypt, and Italy. From 2016 until the end of 2023, he headed the Italian operations of Heidelberg Materials Group. He has been a member of the Managing Board of Heidelberg Materials AG since January 2024 and is responsible for Asia within the Asia-Pacific Group area.

Traversing his professional career spanning over three decades, Mr. Callieri has gained rich and vast experience in plant operations & maintenance, project management, sustainability, business integration, brand leadership, corporate management, strategy formulation and cost leadership in international cement business. He has led many successful operational and marketing turnarounds resulting in re-establishing profitability and competitiveness. He is a highly disciplined professional with balanced approach, self-starting personality and ability to independently operate under challenging business situations. He is a strong believer in nurturing talent, building high performing teams and ability to successfully integrate and be accepted in multicultural environments.

Mr. Joydeep Mukherjee

Mr. Joydeep Mukherjee, aged 57 years, holds a master’s degree in International Business and Marketing (E.M.I.B) from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and a bachelor’s degree (Honors) from Calcutta University. He has also undergone several top management level Executive Education programs in IMD Lausanne, CH and ISB Hyderabad. Mr. Mukherjee has over 32 years of experience in leading large teams and delivering results across various industries. Prior to joining Zuari Cement Limited, Mr. Mukherjee was working as Chief Operating Officer at RR Kabel, a leading wires and cable manufacturer in India.

He was also associated with H&R Johnson as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, leading the business of Ceramic Tiles, Bath products and Kitchens, other than being on the Board of Prism Johnson Limited.

Mr. Mukherjee had also spent 8 years at ACC Limited and held senior leadership roles including Chief Executive for South & West Business, Head of Logistics, RMC and B2B sales and Director Sales for North & Central India. In this stint, he has been credited with launch of 2 highly successful premium products of ACC and delivering impactful results on both top line as well as plant efficiencies in his region. He has been a Managing Committee member of ACC Limited from June 2013 to December 2015 and on the Board of 2 joint ventures of ACC

Prior to joining ACC, Mr. Mukherjee held the position of National Sales Manager of the foil and packaging business of Hindalco Limited. In his last 3 professional stints, Mr. Mukherjee led to several highly successful transformation projects in Logistics, HR, Sales and Manufacturing.

Mr. Juan-Francisco Defalque

Mr. Juan-Francisco Defalque (holding DIN 07318811), aged 60 years, completed his Master degree in Mining Engineering from Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium in the year 1987. He started his professional career in 1989 with CBR, a Belgian International Company engaged in the production of cement, ready-mix and aggregates in Europe and North America (in 1993 CBR was acquired by HeidelbergCement Group). From 1989 to 2002 he held several management positions including director of technical projects for Belgium. In 2002 he joined HC Cimbenin located in Benin (West Africa) as its Managing Director. In 2006 he joined HC Indocement to set up a completely new Heidelberg Technology Centre (HTC) Indonesia organization holding the position of Head of HTC Indonesia. During his time in Indonesia several major investment projects were executed or started including an integrated plant with 10,000 TPD clinker line located south of Jakarta.

In 2015 he joined HeidelbergCement Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore as Director HTC Asia-Oceania responsible for managing the technical centres in the region, which not only provides technical support to all the cement manufacturing facilities of HeidelbergCement group in this region but also takes care of the new projects.

In India he holds the position of a Director in HeidelbergCement India Limited, Zuari Cement Limited and Gulbarga Cement Limited.