PETER JAHN APPOINTED AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR NEW ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS UNIT TO ETTEPLAN
ETTEPLAN OYJ STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE JANUARY 22, 2010 AT 09:30 A.M.
PETER JAHN APPOINTED AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR NEW ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS UNIT TO
ETTEPLAN
Peter Jahn (45) has been appointed as Vice President, Enterprise Solutions to
Etteplan Group as of February 8, 2010. Jahn is a member of Etteplan Oyj's
management group and reports to President and CEO Matti Hyytiäinen.
Peter Jahn comes to Etteplan from Intertek Group Plc where he was Sales Director
of Commercial & Electrical division in Europe. In this position Jahn was
responsible for key accounts headquartered in Europe for the whole Intertek
Group. Jahn has a profound knowledge of different industries' product
development and design processes such as engineering industry, consumer
electronics, medical technology equipment manufacturers and telecommunications.
New Enterprise Solutions unit concentrates on Etteplan's global key customers
with an aim to improve competitiveness of customers' operations by offering
comprehensive technical design and product information expertise and operational
services that are assorted to international business environment.
”Business environment of our customers has changed rapidly. Tightened
competition and changed focus of demand to Asia in a number of business areas
has, with an increasing speed, lead to new decisions by our customers to renew
their production structures and operational models. At the same time, our
customers are, even strongly, focusing on their core business. To this change in
operating environment, Etteplan brings new service solutions. Operational and
expertise services in the areas of technical design and product information
bring our customers significant flexibility in operations and cost effective
operating models. We also offer localisation services related to production
transfer to our customers that already have production in Asian market or have
made the decision to transfer production there. We have received positive
feedback from many of our customers for our global delivery model as our
cooperation has broadened to include a growing number of technical design and
product information services.
By establishing a new Enterprise Solutions unit we continue our investments to
support customers' global businesses. I am glad that we have been able to
strengthen our management group with Peter Jahn who has a strong background of
executing solutions in service business in a global environment and long
experience of managerial positions in sales and marketing in multinational
companies.”, comments Matti Hyytiäinen.
Hollola, January 22, 2010,
Etteplan Oyj
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Etteplan is a specialist in industrial equipment engineering and technical
product information solutions and services. Our customers are global leaders in
their fields and operate in areas like the automotive, aerospace and defence
industries as well as the electricity generation and power transmission sectors,
and material flow management.
Etteplan has comprehensive competence in electronics and embedded systems
development, automation and electrical design, mechanical design and technical
product information solutions and services.
Etteplan's strength lies in its highly skilled employees who, being located near
to the customers, are able to develop close, long term business relationships.
We implement solutions globally according to customer needs.
In 2008, Etteplan had turnover of EUR 135.3 million. The company currently has
approximately 1,700 employees. Etteplan's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki Ltd under the ETT1V ticker.