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Born in 1961, Gerard Kuperfarb is a civil engineering graduate from the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (1983). He also has a Masters in engineering from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (1984) and an MBA from the HEC international business school (1986). He has been with the Group since 1992.
He began his career in 1983 as an engineer at the centre for material forming at the Ecole des Mines de Paris before joining the "composite materials" division at Ciba Group in 1986, where he held sales and marketing functions. In 1989, he joined a strategy consultancy working in Brussels and Paris.
He joined Lafarge in 1992 as marketing director for the Refractory Materials Business, then became Strategy Director at Lafarge Specialty Materials.
Between 1996 and 1998, he managed the Aggregates & Concrete activities in Southwest Ontario (Toronto, Canada), North America. In 2001, he joined the Aggregates & Concrete division staff as Business Performance Director in 2002.
He was Executive Vice-President, Aggregates & Concrete for the East of Canada in 2005.
Since September 1, 2007, he has been Executive Vice-President, Co-President of the Aggregates & Concrete Business and a member of the Executive Committee. | 