New senior vice president for Buzzi Unicem USA

George Garcia has been promoted to senior vice president operations at Buzzi Unicem USA, effective from 1 July 2013. He will be based at Buzzi Unicem USA's Corporate Office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and will report to Dave Nepereny, president and CEO of Buzzi Unicem USA.

Since 2001, Garcia served as the plant manager at Buzzi Unicem's Chattanooga factory, a position he assumed after leading construction of the “new plant” there three years earlier. 

Having begun his career with Buzzi Unicem  at the sister company, Alamo Cement, Garcia served as the director of engineering at Alamo before arriving at the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee. 

Garcia holds a Master of Business degree from the University of Texas-San Antonio and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.