“Jerome Lionet, 39 years old, has been educated in the fine tradition of the great French engineering schools, having first graduated Ecole Polytechnique, and then Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines from Paris,” the company noted in a news release.

Lionet joined the Sain-Gobain Group 10 years ago.

The group is active in 64 states, with some 190,000 employees.

In Romania, Saint-Gobain Group includes five companies (Saint-Gobain Construction Products with Isover, PAM, Rigips and Weber Business Units, Saint-Gobain Glass Romania, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, MTI Impex Brasov and Brodrene Dahl), having about 1,000 employees and operates 11 production units in six industrial sites located in Brasov, Branesti, Calarasi, Ploiesti, Satu-Mare and Turda.