(Togo First) - Polyglot, humanitarian, entrepreneur, manager, Eric GOULIGNAC is the managing director of the HeidelbergCement Group in Togo. The group is the majority shareholder in the country's leading cement company, CIM-TOGO.

With nearly 25 years of experience in the building materials industry and strong skills in strategy and management of multicultural teams, Eric GOULIGNAC has a Master's in mechanical and ocean engineering from the University of Texas, and an MBA in Business and Administration from the University of Phoenix, US. He joined HeidelbergCement in 1995 as an International Management Trainee for Sweden, Norway, and Tanzania.

Before taking up his position in Togo in 2017, as Regional Director for the Group's Cluster (Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin), he worked for Lafarge (the world's largest cement group), ItaliCimenti (the Italian cement company), among others. Today, he manages CIMTOGO, SCANTOGO, GRANUTOGO, which together form one of the major consortia of the construction industry in Togo.