STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 07, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Gert Engman, 54, has been appointed as the new head of Skandia Sweden and Executive Vice President of the Skandia group. He will also have global responsibility for IT matters within the group and will be included in Skandia's executive management for both of these capacities.
Gert Engman is currently Executive Vice President, CIO and head of Shared Services at Foreningssparbanken. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial sector, including as director of international operations for FinansSkandic, regional manager for Securum, and numerous other positions within Foreningssparbanken, including regional manager of the bank's Western region. In addition, as head of Foreningssparbanken's Online Services he was responsible for building up the bank's online and telephone bank operations into the biggest in the Nordic region.
Skandia's CEO, Hans-Erik Andersson, comments:
"Gert Engman possesses exactly the professional qualities along with the breadth and depth of experience from the financial sector that are needed to take on the important task of developing Skandia's Swedish operations into a coordinated, powerful unit. Gert's expertise in IT and from online banking is also strategically important for Skandia - both for adopting a coordinated approach to our IT activities and for continuing the development of SkandiaBanken and other IT-based customer offerings. Gert Engman has been my preferred candidate, and I am very happy to welcome him onboard at Skandia."
Gert Engman comments:
"I have always had great respect for Skandia's position and competence. I look forward to taking the baton and developing the Swedish operations and Skandia's global IT strategy. These assignments will give me an opportunity to use all the experience I have obtained in the financial sector - from marketing to product development and IT."
Gert Engman will assume his new position on 1 August 2004.
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