Slawomir Horodyski

Vice President of Finance Clyde Industries

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Slawomir “Slawek” Horodyski is Vice President of Finance of Clyde Industries, the Atlanta-headquartered engineer and manufacturer of sootblowers and other boiler cleaning and efficiency systems for the pulp and paper, power and industrial markets. He served as the company’s Group Chief Financial Officer before Kadant Inc. completed its $175 million cash acquisition of Clyde Industries in October 2025. A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants with degrees from universities in Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom, he previously spent 14 years at the Xella Group, the Duisburg-based building-materials manufacturer.

Career Highlights

• Vice President of Finance of Clyde Industries, now part of Kadant Inc.
• Group Chief Financial Officer of Clyde Industries before its acquisition by Kadant, which closed on 7 October 2025 for $175 million in cash; Clyde reported $92 million in revenue for the fiscal year ended February 2025.
• Spent 14 years at the Xella Group, one of the world’s largest building-materials manufacturers.
• Has led finance and administrative operations across North America, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Russia.
• Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Professional Journey

Horodyski’s education spans three countries. He earned a Diplom-Kaufmann in international trade and finance at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany, a master’s degree in international political and economic relations and international trade at the Poznan University of Economics in Poland, and a BSc with honours in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has also completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School.

He spent 14 years at the Xella Group, the Duisburg-headquartered manufacturer of building materials, and over his career has led finance and administrative operations in North America, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Russia.

He then joined Clyde Industries, a business with a long lineage in boiler cleaning. Its roots run to Clyde Blowers, a Scottish family firm founded in 1924, and to the German company Hans Bergemann Wärmetechnik; the two combined as Clyde Bergemann, whose US arm built up the Anthony-Ross and Copes Vulcan product lines. Clyde Industries itself was formed in 2019, when Clyde Bergemann Power Group carved out its pulp and paper business and sold it to Wynnchurch Capital, and it expanded in 2020 by acquiring the assets of MidSouth Power and Equipment and establishing an Indian subsidiary. The company now has about 400 employees, with operations in Brazil, China, Indonesia, Finland and Canada.

Horodyski served as the company’s Group Chief Financial Officer. In October 2025 Kadant Inc., the Westford, Massachusetts supplier of industrial processing technology, completed its acquisition of Clyde Industries Holdings and affiliates for $175 million in cash, folding the business into its Industrial Processing segment. Clyde Industries now lists him as Vice President of Finance within its executive management team, which is led by Brent Beachy.

Education

Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg

Diplom-Kaufmann, International Trade and Finance

Poznan University of Economics

Master, International Political and Economic Relations and International Trade

Oxford Brookes University

BSc (Hons), Applied Accounting