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Ian Riley

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Chief Executive Officer at Xeroc Ltd
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Ian Riley is the CEO of Xeroc, a climate tech venture he co-founded to mitigate the CO2 footprint of concrete. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge, he has extensive multinational experience leading business turnarounds and M&A, notably as the former China head for LafargeHolcim. Colleagues describe him as strategic and effective.

Ian is passionately focused on addressing significant environmental challenges through his work. He is a vocal advocate for finding viable, low-cost solutions for the decarbonization of "hard to abate" industries like cement, viewing this as an essential mission to make meaningful progress on climate change.

Unique fact: While leading LafargeHolcim in China, he integrated two massive organizations with 20, 000 employees, achieving $250 million in synergies and increasing EBITDA by 90%.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Climate Tech
Co-founded and now leads Xeroc, a company specifically created to address concrete's high CO2 footprint and poor recyclability, stepping down from a prior CEO role to focus on it.
Industrial Decarbonization
Focuses on "hard to abate" sectors like cement, frequently discussing the need for innovative, low-cost CO2 reduction solutions to make progress toward net-zero emissions.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Chief Executive Officer
Xeroc Ltd
11-2021 - 1-2025
Director
Xeroc Ltd
12-2020
Industry Expert
WhitewaterTx
9-2019 - 1-2025
CEO
World Cement Association
4-2014 - 3-2019
Greater China Country Head
LafargeHolcim
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Education
9-1976 - 6-1979
MA
University of Cambridge
1973 - 1975
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King Edward VI Grammar School, Nuneaton
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