User:Ovedc/Yuval Dagim

Yuval Dagim (born December 13, 1962) is an Israeli manager. He was CEO of CaesarStone (2018-2023), and CEO of several other companies, including Shikun & Binui, Kimberly-Clark ANZ (Australia), Kimberly-Clark (Israel) and Hanson Quarry product (UK).

Biography
His parents' families came to Israel in The Third Aliyah and settled in Tel Aviv, where his parents were born. Yuval Dagim was born in Ashkelon. In 1968 he moved with his family to Ramat HaSharon. His father was a vice president at the Mehdrin-Prior company and his mother was a teacher.

Military service
Dagim enlisted in the Israeli Armored Corps and served between 1981 to 1985.

In 1984-1985 he was a company commander in the 82nd Battalion in the 7th Armored Brigade, and was released from regular service with the rank of a captain.

While serving in the reserves, he became lieutenant colonel and commanded an armored battalion, after which he was a commanding general in the Kiryati Brigade.

Academic education
Between the years 1987-1991 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and received a bachelor's degree. In 1997 he studied at the London Business School.

Between the years 1999-2000 he studied for an accredited EMBA degree in business administration in the industrial managers track, at Bar-Ilan University.

Family
Dagim is married to Racheli, a Painter and art therapist, they have three sons and they live in Zichron Yaakov.

Business career
Dagim began his business career at Pioneer Concrete (Israel), where he was a plant manager and then a regional manager, between the years 1991-1997. Between the years 1997-1999 Dagim was based as an expatriot with his family in the Czech Republic and managed the concrete division of Pioneer Concrete in Prague.

Between the years 2002-2008 He was area regional manager and vice president of Hanson Israel.

Between the years 2008-2011 he moved with his family to London, United Kingdom and was appointed CEO of the Hanson Quarry Products company, which is part of the Hanson UK.

After his return to Israel, between 2011 and 2016 he was the CEO of Hogla-Kimberly, the representative of Kimberly Clark in Israel.

Between the years 2016-2017, he moved with his family to Sydney, Australia, and served as CEO of Kimberly-Clark (Australia and New Zealand).

In 2018, he was appointed CEO of the Shikun & Binui Company, but about six months later, with the transfer of control of the company, he resigned.

Between August 2018 and March 2023 he was CEO of CaesarStone. Dagim and the global management team were engaged in defining a strategy, centered on the CaesarStone brand, while expanding the product portfolio. As of the end of 2021, about 2,100 people work at CaesarStone.

Dagim was also the chairman of the board of the Lioli Ceramica Pvt company, A porcelain product manufacturing company that was acquired by CaesarStone in 2020, since 2020 through 2023.