Boral chairman Ryan Stokes has moved to accelerate some cost-cutting in executive ranks at the concrete and asphalt group by eliminating the position of chief finance and strategy officer, sending Tino La Spina out of the company after 18 months.

Mr La Spina, who previously was head of international operations at Qantas until September 2020, joined Boral a few weeks later. He left the flag carrier after it grounded its international flying operations in the pandemic.