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Mr Gries joined James Hardie as Manager of the Fontana fibre cement plant in California in February 1991 and was appointed President of James Hardie Building Products (USA) in December 1993. He became Executive Vice President Operations in January 2003 with responsibility for operations sales and marketing in our pipes and fibre cement businesses in the Americas Asia Pacific and Europe. Mr Gries was appointed Interim CEO in October 2004 and made CEO in February 2005. He was elected to the company's Managing Board by CUFS holders at the 2005 AGM held in Amsterdam on 22 August 2005.
Before he joined James Hardie Mr Gries worked for 13 years for USG Corp in a variety of roles in Research Plant Quality and Production Product and Plant Management.
He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Illinois and an MBA from California State University Long Beach USA. | 