Summit Materials names new board member

Summit Materials Inc. appointed Joseph Cantie to its board of directors.

With the appointment of Cantie, Summit now has eight members on its board of directors. Cantie will also serve on the board of directors’ audit committee. According to the company, Cantie has more than 30 years of financial and operating experience in the industrials sector. He most recently worked as the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of ZF TRW, a division of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, from May 2015 until January 2016. He has held other positions at TRW, which he joined in 1999.

“His combined financial and operating experience, along with his tenure at a big four accounting firm, provide a diversified knowledge base and additional perspective to our company,” says Tom Hill, CEO of Summit.

Summit Materials is a vertically integrated construction materials company that supplies aggregates, cement, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt in the United States and British Columbia. The company has completed more than 35 acquisitions since it was founded.