N E W S R E L E A S E
15 August 2008
CRH APPOINTS FINANCE DIRECTOR DESIGNATE
CRH plc, the international building materials group, announces the appointment of Mr. Glenn Culpepper as Group Finance Director Designate. Mr Culpepper will succeed Mr. Myles Lee, the current Group Finance Director and Group Chief Executive Designate, who takes over from Mr. Liam O'Mahony on his retirement at the end of 2008.
Mr. Culpepper, aged 52 and a US citizen, is a CPA and MBA and joined CRH in 1989. He has held a variety of positions in CRH's US operations and has been Chief Financial Officer of CRH's Americas Materials Division since 1995. Mr. Culpepper will take up his new position in Dublin and join the CRH Board in January 2009.
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