SEB - Petteri Karttunen new Country Manager in Finland


Petteri Karttunen has been appointed new Country Manager in Finland.
He is currently Head of SEB Gyllenberg and Wealth Management in
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He succeeds Jan Stjernström who is
appointed Head of Investments, a global business area within the Life
Division. Stjernström will also take on the role of deputy head of
SEB Trygg Liv in Sweden.

Petteri Karttunen, who has worked within Gyllenberg since 1988, will
keep his previous responsibilities in his new role.

New Head of Merchant Banking in Finland is Marcus Nystén, currently
global Head of Foreign Exchange, a responsibility which he will keep.

Petteri Karttunen, Jan Stjernström and Marcus Nystén will assume
their positions on 1 September.


The SEB Group is a North European financial group for 400,000
corporate customers and institutions,
and 5 million private customers. SEB has local presence in the Nordic
and Baltic countries, Germany, Poland, the Ukraine and Russia and has
a global presence through its international network in another 10
countries.
On 31 December 2006, the Group's total assets amounted to SEK 1,934bn
while its assets under management totalled SEK 1,262bn. The Group has
about 20,000 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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For further information, please contact:
Petteri Karttunen, tel  +358 9 131 55 314
Jan Stjernström, tel +358 9 616 28 100
Marcus Nystén, tel +46-8-506 231 34

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