New Group Management
NEW GROUP MANAGEMENT IN IF On 8 February this year Torbjörn Magnusson was appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of If. If's new Group Management has now been appointed. The members are Hannu Kokkonen, Head of the Business Area (BA) Commercial and deputy CEO, Gunnar Rogstad, Head of BA Private, Anders Nordman, Head of BA Industrial, Jan Svensson, Head of BA Business Support, Tom Melbye Eide, CLO, Nils Henriksson, CIO, Ricard Wennerklint, CFO and myself. Other members of Group Management are Helena Dyrssen, Head of Communications, Kerstin Ryer, Head of HR and Kjell Rune Tveita, Head of IT, all of whom belong to the BA Business Support. Management Groups which will handle different common assignments will successively emerge from the Group Management. A Business Management Group will start working immediately as support for the CEO with questions covering several Business Areas and the Finnish integration. This Group will include the Managers for the four Business Areas as well as the CLO, CFO and CEO. Hannu Kokkonen will be the Group Management member responsible for our business in the Baltic States and Anders Nordman will be responsible for Marine & Energy, which is run by Gard Services, Gunnar Rogstad will be the Chairman for Europeiske/If Travel Insurance. Comments from Torbjörn Magnusson, CEO of If "The new Group Management represents extensive property and casualty insurance competence and leadership experience from the entire Nordic region. Together with all those employed in our company we will do all we can to provide the best possible service and insurance offers for every customer and at the same time quickly improve our financial result" For further information contact: Helena Dyrssen +46 8 788 23 35 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/03/05/20020305BIT00960/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/03/05/20020305BIT00960/wkr0002.pdf