By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Cement manufacturers, Lafarge Cement Wapco Nigeria Plc on Monday announced the appointment of Thierry Metro as director of the company.

Lafarge Wapco said Metro was born on 30th October 1957 in Strasbourg, France; Mr. Thierry Metro had his French National Service between 1977 and 1979 at Cooperation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and joined the Total Group in 1980 as Production engineer – Ekofisk – Stavanger – Norway. From 1983 – 1985 he was the Senior Process Engineer – Project Alwyn north – Londres – UK and from 1986 – 1988 he was the Commissioning Manager – Alwyn North Aberdeen, UK.

 According to the cement makers, Metro teamed up with Lafarge Group as Assistant Plant Manager – Speed – Indiana, USA and held the position between 1989 and 1990. From 1990 to 1994, he was the Plant Manager, Caen, France and from 1994 to 1998 he was the Plant Manager, Bethlehem, USA. Metro was made the VP, Manufacturing – ESSROC Cement, Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) between 1998 and 1999. He thereafter became the VP, Manufacturing, Lafarge Eastern Canada, Montreal from 1999 to 2002 and General Manager of the Lafarge International Technical Center, Lafarge CTI from 2002 to 2005. Between 2006 and 2009, Mr Thierry Metro was the General Manager of the Lafarge America Technical Center, CTA, Montreal and General Manager of Lafarge Brazil S/A (Cement) in 2009.

He was made the Group SVP Fuel Sourcing based in Paris in 2013 and has been the Group SVP Energy & Strategic Sourcing – 2014. Metro speaks French, English and Portuguese languages.