"He will report to Eric Olsen, group chief executive officer, and succeed Bernard Terver who has decided to retire," LafargeHolcim said in a statement.
Kriegner joined LafargeHolcim in 1990 and previously held several senior leadership positions in the group, including chief financial officer and CEO in Austria as well as head of Lafarge India and regional president for Asia.
The group has a distribution network that extends across the entire country and continues to see opportunities to further build its business in India through the network of over 100,000 dealers and retailers. Kriegner was responsible for Ambuja Cements and ACC post merger. The company has got fair trade regulator Competition Commission of India's go-ahead for a new divestment plant for its India business.