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Boral Roofing Names Building Products Veteran Darren Schulz New President

IRVINE, Calif. — Boral Roofing LLC, recently named Darren Schulz as its new president. A building products and roofing expert with two decades in the business, Schulz will lead strategy and operations nationally for the company’s growing family of clay, concrete, steel, composite and components roofing solution product lines. A former 14-year veteran of Boral Roofing, Darren Schulz re-joined the company to fill the role.

“We are thrilled to re-welcome Darren Schulz back to Boral Roofing,” said Eric Miller, vice president of sales and marketing. “With Boral’s recently completed company acquisitions, we have made a strategic move into new verticals and sit at a critical point in the company’s growth. It is extremely valuable to be able to leverage Darren’s knowledge of the industry and Boral’s brand to expand market share in both the new and retrofit roofing system sectors.”

Schulz will lead the combined Boral Roofing divisions with a key focus on the successful integration of the concrete tile business as well as significant growth plans for the company’s steel and composite roofing endeavors.

“This is undoubtedly an exciting time for Boral Roofing and I am honored to be a part of it,” said Schulz. “Boral Roofing has always led the industry in durability, sustainability, and energy efficiency, and the company’s new product lines not only align with that legacy, but provide us with numerous expansion opportunities as we kick off 2018.”

Schulz enjoyed a lengthy tenure with Boral, serving in numerous positions including executive general manager for Boral Building Products (Australia) and vice president and general manager positions in Boral Roofing’s Clay and Concrete Tile (North America)., as well as the Director of Finance and Business Planning for Boral Industries (Atlanta/North America).

Just prior to his return to Boral, Schulz was president and group general manager of the Roof Tile Group for Fletcher Building Limited. In this role, he led Fletcher’s global stone-coated metal roofing business with manufacturing facilities in New Zealand, Malaysia, Hungary, and California.

Schulz resides in Orange County, California, and will be based in Boral Roofing’s Irvine headquarters. He received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors in Accounting from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.