Jyri Salonen appointed Business Area Manager for NCC Roads
Jyri Salonen is appointed Business Area Manager for NCC Roads as of February 1, 2015.
“I welcome Jyri Salonen as Business Area Manager for NCC Roads and as a new member of the Executive Management team. His experience from NCC in different roles within Roads, as well as from other international companies will be of great value for NCC going forward,” says Peter Wågström, President and CEO of NCC.
Jyri Salonen has most recently held the position as Division Manager at NCC Road services, to which he was appointed in January 2014 after 4 years as Business Unit Manager for NCC Roads Finland. Jyri was originally recruited to NCC Roads Finland as Finance and Business Control Manager in the summer of 2008. Prior to that, he worked within the oil industry, internationally at ExxonMobil and at Esso in Finland.
“It’s an honor to take on the responsibility for NCC Roads. My focus going forward is to implement the direction set out earlier this year, with one Nordic organization within Roads in order to increase customer and sales focus. Roads development of new products and solutions within the sustainability field is very promising and I am looking forward to take these further,” says Jyri Salonen.
Present Business Area Manager, Göran Landgren, will continue in a role at Group level within NCC responsible for specific Group initiatives and projects. Göran Landgren will report to Peter Wågström, CEO.
“Göran Landgren has done an excellent job within NCC Roads and has a long experience in different areas and from other positions within NCC. I am really pleased to have the opportunity to get a person with his experience and knowledge to work close with me on specific group initiatives and projects,” says Peter Wågström President and CEO at NCC.
NCC Roads is the second largest Business Area within NCC with around 4.000 employees, a turnover 2013 of nearly 12 billion SEK, and operations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Saint Petersburg (in Russia). During 2014 NCC Roads implemented a new Nordic organization in order to optimize customer focus and to reach the strategic goals for the business area.
For further information, please contact:
Peter Wågström, President and CEO of NCC, telephone +46 70 527 31 31
Jyri Salonen, Business Area Manager NCC Roads, NCC + 35 8503160740
NCC’s media line +46 8 585 519 00, e-mail: press@ncc.se, NCC’s image bank
This is the type of information that NCC could be obligated to disclose pursuant to the Securities Market Act. The information was issued for publication on December 16, 2014, at 14:30 p m CET.
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NCC is one of the leading construction and property development companies in the Nordic region. In 2013, NCC reported sales of SEK 58 billion and had 18,500 employees.