Ahead of the 2009 Annual General Meeting, Ratos's Nomination
Committee proposed that the Board be expanded by one member.
Margareth Øvrum, Executive Vice President at StatoilHydro in Bergen,
Norway, is proposed as the new member of the Board.
Margareth Øvrum, born 1958, has an MSc in Engineering from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), specialising in technical
physics. She is currently Executive Vice President for the Technology& New Energy business area within the StatoilHydro Group. Previously
she held management positions in the Statoil Group within purchasing,
production, projects, health, safety and the environment and was
Statoil's first female platform manager. In addition to the proposed
assignment for Ratos, Margareth Øvrum is a member of the boards of
Atlas Copco, the Norwegian company Elkem and the Norwegian Research
Council. Margareth Øvrum is a Norwegian citizen and lives in Norway.
The present members of Ratos's Board of Directors are Olof Stenhammar
(Chairman), Lars Berg, Staffan Bohman, Annette Sadolin, Jan
Söderberg, Per-Olof Söderberg and Arne Karlsson (CEO).
The Nomination Committee comprises Annika Andersson (Chairman and
representing AP4), Peder Hasslev (representing AMF Pension), Olof
Stenhammar (Chairman of Ratos's Board), Jan Söderberg (representing
own and related parties' shares), Maria Söderberg (representing the
Torsten Söderberg Foundation) and Per-Olof Söderberg (representing
own and related parties' shares).
Ratos's Annual General Meeting will be held at 17.30 CET on 2 April
2009 in City Conference Center, Barnhusgatan 12-14, Stockholm. The
notice of the annual general meeting will be published at the end of
February.
For further information, please contact:
Annika Andersson, Chairman of Ratos's Nomination Committee, +46 8 787
75 69
Olof Stenhammar, Chairman of the Ratos Board, +46 8 700 17 00
Financial calendar from Ratos:
Year-End Report 2008 19 February 2009
Annual General Meeting 2009 2 April 2009
Interim Report January - March 2009 7 May 2009
Interim Report January - June 2009 20 August 2009
Interim Report January - September 2009 5 November 2009
Ratos is a listed private equity company. The business concept is to
maximise shareholder value over time by investing in, developing and
divesting primarily unlisted companies. Ratos offers investors a
unique investment opportunity. The equity of Ratos's investments is
approximately SEK 11 billion and a market capitalisation of
approximately SEK 21 billion. Ratos's holdings include AH Industries,
Anticimex, Arcus Gruppen, Bisnode, Camfil, Contex, DIAB, EuroMaint,
GS-Hydro, Haglöfs, HL Display, HÅG/RH/RBM, Hägglunds Drives, Inwido,
Jøtul, Lindab, MCC, Medisize, Superfos and Other holdings.
