French national born in 1953, Patrick Kron is a Member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Audit Committee and a Member of the Health, Safety & Sustainability Committee of Holcim. He was elected to the Board of Directors of Holcim in 2017 (then LafargeHolcim). Patrick Kron is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Paris Ecole des Mines, France.
He began his career at the French Industry Ministry in 1979 before joining the Pechiney group in 1984, where he held senior operational responsibilities in one of the group’s largest factories in Greece before becoming manager of Pechiney’s Greek subsidiary in 1988.