Changes to the Board of Directors of Atea

Changes to the Board of Directors of Atea Press Release - Stockholm, 30 June 2004 The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Atea held on 28 June 2004 adopted the following changes to the Board of Directors with immediate effect: The new chairman of Atea shall be Per-Arne Sandström, previously First Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO of Ericsson. Gündor Rentsch, previous Chairman of the Board of Atea, leaves the Board. Rickard Petri and Kurt Jofs also leave the Board. Jan Stenberg and Johan Ripe have been appointed as new Board members. Bengt Paulsson, Gustav Bard and Rolf Sundberg have been reappointed as Board members of Atea. Atea is the leading Nordic company within sales, distribution and integration of IT products and IT infrastructure. The Atea Value Chain enables Atea to offer a comprehensive concept of IT product management. Atea's business concept is to simplify and rationalise customers' management of IT products throughout the entire life cycle. Atea employs about 700 people in the Nordic region, and the CEO is Thomas Keifer. Turnover in 2003 amounted to SEK 4,917m. Atea is owned by WM-data, the international venture capital company 3i, as well as the management of Atea. www.atea.se For further information, please contact: Per-Arne Sandström, Chairman of the Board, Atea Tel: + 46 8 7198017 E-mail per-arne.sandstrom@ericsson.com Thomas Keifer, CEO, Atea Tel: + 46 709 197131 E-mail: thomas.keifer@atea.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2004/06/30/20040630BIT21570/wkr0001.pdf