{"id":876971,"date":"2025-10-12T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/saint-gobain-names-chaldecotts-successor\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T05:12:08","slug":"saint-gobain-names-chaldecotts-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/saint-gobain-names-chaldecotts-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint-Gobain names Chaldecott&#8217;s successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/news_articles\/2025\/10\/1760076366_dean-o\"sullivan-ceo-saint-gobain-uk--ireland.png\" title=\"Dean O&rsquo;Sullivan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/img-cache\/d526015462ab806cbb70bb348d801f0f\/750x500_top_1760076366_dean-o\"sullivan-ceo-saint-gobain-uk--ireland.png\" alt=\"Dean O&rsquo;Sullivan\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a>\n<\/p><figcaption>Dean O\u2019Sullivan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dean O\u2019Sullivan takes over as chief executive of Saint-Gobain UK &#038; Ireland from Mike Chaldecott, who is retiring after 42 years with the company.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Sullivan has already held a number of leadership roles within Saint-Gobain, starting as a sales manager at Saint-Gobain\u2019s Gyproc business in Ireland in 2007, becoming sales and marketing director of the combined Gyproc and Isover Ireland businesses in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He then moved to the UK to lead Saint-Gobain\u2019s Okarno (formerly Artex) business as managing director in 2013 and then its combined Insulation businesses including Isover in the UK in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, O\u2019Sullivan has been managing director of Saint-Gobain\u2019s UK Interior Solutions businesses, comprising Isover and British Gypsum. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"adid2532\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/redirect\/campaign\/12782\/\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/redirect\/campaign\/12782\/\" title=\"Related Information\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Related Information\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/assets\/adverts\/38334-1751562706-32569 8008E Construction Index Banners REVB - Run of site 1456x180 2.jpg\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great privilege to lead Saint-Gobain\u2019s businesses in the UK &#038; Ireland at a time when we release a new strategy that positions Saint-Gobain as a true solutions provider for customers\u201d, O\u2019Sullivan said. Saint-Gobain is truly a unique company with an unrivalled breadth of solutions for the entire building industry and expertise made so special by an amazing 360-year history and strong values of care, respect and doing the right things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the construction sector finds its way of responding to huge challenge such as climate change, protecting natural resources and unprecedent demand for construction \u2013 housing, infrastructure, retrofit and repurposing Saint-Gobain has a strong vision for being a catalyst for a transformed construction sector \u2013 lighter, more productive and more sustainable than before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike Chaldecott said: &#8220;Many congratulations to Dean. His talent, charm and drive will make him a great success, especially with the support of his amazing senior team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Got a story?<\/b> Email <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theconstructionindex.co.uk\/mailto:ne**@*********************co.uk\" data-original-string=\"DLgUsdJF7szsAJaqp4J3Ww==7f47ULPdgCMmzMr\/gwVIOsr2bEu5jjx0gkh+NtIvfgrEfJNq6IX7ffwn4dW2SG6zpftXUKtdUTSMxi5u9BW0XVQkw==\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.?subject=News%20Story\"><span \n                data-original-string='z64eBn0NRHBUTJWOuKN1pw==7f4YV37AA5IM+C93KaihbtbGdfjz\/IHcphSwHUCiu84XlI='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. 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O\u2019Sullivan has already held a number of leadership roles within Saint-Gobain, starting as a sales manager at Saint-Gobain\u2019s Gyproc business in Ireland in 2007, becoming sales and marketing director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":876972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1789,108284],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-names","8":"category-saint-gobain"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}