Philippe Richart is currently the CEO for Holcim West Africa cluster based out of Casablanca overseeing operations in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Benin and Guinea. Philippe has 35 years of experience in Construction and building materials. He started his career in 1989, in Taiwan as a construction engineer on an automatic subway project with the French company Matra transport then moved to USA continuing working on transportation construction projects.  He moved in 1996 in China for a cement plant project in Beijing with Lafarge. He then held different CEO positions in Asia with the Holcim Group and then Siam City Cement in Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Thailand.