Management changes at Handelsbanken

Göran Stille has been appointed Senior Advisor, with particular responsibility for international regional bank boards and subsidiary boards. He is currently Head of Regional Bank South East Sweden, and will remain part of the Bank’s Senior Management, of which he has been a member since 2008. He takes up his new appointment on 29 December 2017.

Anders Fagerdahl has been appointed the new Head of Regional Bank South East Sweden. In this position, he will also be a member of the the Bank’s Senior Management. He is currently Head of the Bank’s operations in Singapore, and will take up his new position on 29 December 2017. 

Ulrica Stolt Kirkegaard has been appointed at Group level to be responsible for preparing and managing Handelsbanken’s activities relating to Brexit. Since 2014 she has been Chief Executive of Stadshypotek AB, and her new position means that she will leaving the Bank’s Senior Management. 

Maria Lidström Andersson will succeed Ulrica Stolt Kirkegaard as Chief Executive of Stadshypotek AB on 15 February 2018. In this position, she will become a member of the Bank’s Senior Management. Maria Lidström Andersson is currently Chief Executive of Handelsbanken Finans. A new Chief Executive of Handelsbanken Finans will be recruited in due course.

Katarina Grönwall has been appointed Chief Communications Officer. She is currently Senior Vice President, Communications within the Skanska Group. In her new position, Katarina Grönwall will become a member of Handelsbanken’s Senior Management. She will be taking up her new position no later than in May 2018.


For further information, please contact: 

Anders Bouvin, President and Group Chief Executive, +46 8–22 92 20
Stefan Nilsson, Acting Chief Communications Officer, +46 8–701 89 04, +46 70–225 91 04
Johan Wallqvist, Head of Group Media Relations, +46 8–701 80 47, +46 72–206 34 50 
Rolf Marquardt, Chief Financial Officer +46 8 -22 92 20 



This information is of the type that Handelsbanken is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and the Swedish Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 8.15 CET on 22 November 2017. 
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