HiQ creates a new business area called HiQ Öresund

HiQ creates a new business area called HiQ Öresund

- Market initiative with a greater customer focus and intensified sales
activities 

HiQ is creating a new business area, HiQ Öresund with subsidiaries HiQ Skåne and
HiQ Copenhagen. The purpose of the new business area is to create a platform for
expansion through joint sales activities and intensified marketing. Jon Carvell,
Managing Director of HiQ Skåne, has been appointed head of the new business
area.  The present Managing Director for HiQ Copenhagen, Lise Jonasen, has
decided to leave HiQ to pursue other activities.

Today HiQ employs close to 200 consultants in high-tech projects for clients in
the telecoms, industrial and public sectors in the Öresund region. The aim in
the coming year is to strengthen HiQ in the region through targeted sales
activities and a joint market initiative. The long-term goal is to double the
number of employees and strengthen HiQ's position as one of the leading players
in the IT industry in this region. 

”The Öresund region is an exciting growth region with many clients in
technology-intensive sectors. The challenges of the past year have created
opportunities for a strong player like HiQ to increase its market share on both
the Danish and the Swedish side of the sound. Creating HiQ Öresund will enable
us to work on this market in a natural way that is even more effective than
before,” says Jon Carvell, Managing Director of HiQ Skåne and head of HiQ
Öresund.

”Jon Carvell has worked with others at HiQ Skåne to build up a very strong
operation in this region. We work with several leading players in the region and
today we have one of the strongest brands in the market. I am convinced that Jon
will shoulder the responsibility for the new business area and do an excellent
job,” says Lars Stugemo, President & CEO of HiQ.

”Jon Carvell will have help in Denmark by Morten Hougaard and Ulla Beckman that
will run the Danish operation. Both Ulla and Morten is part of the team at HiQ
Denmark and has worked hard with Lise Jonasen and others there to develop HiQ in
the Danish market,  over the past year under very tough market conditions. Now
that Lise Jonasen has decided to leave HiQ, Morten and Ulla will do an excellent
job of running our Danish operation and, with Jon Carvell and other colleagues
in Öresund, will continue to develop HiQ into Öresund's leading IT and
management consulting firm. We are very grateful for the work that Lise has done
and wish her luck in her future endeavours,” continues Lars Stugemo.

For more information, please contact:
Lars Stugemo, President & CEO of HiQ, tel. 046 (0)8 588 90 000
Jon Carvell, Head of HiQ Öresund and Managing Director of HiQ Skåne, tel. +46
(0)768 800 700
Annika Billberg, Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations at HiQ,
tel. +45 (0)8 588 90 015, +46 (0)704 200 103

HiQ is an IT and management consultancy company focusing on high-tech solutions
in the fields of communications, software development and simulation technology.
The company is a leading player in these fields and the Nordic region is its
domestic market. HiQ employs more than 1,000 people at offices in the Nordic
region and Eastern Europe. HiQ is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Exchange
Stockholm Mid Cap. For more information, please visit www.hiq.se