New COO
Intentia International Announces New Global Organization and New Chief Operating Officer Leading enterprise application provider Intentia International today announces the merger of Intentia's regional organizations in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific into one joint organization named Global Operations. Lars Prochéus, presently CEO of Intentia Europe, has been appointed COO of Intentia International and head of Global Operations. Mr. Prochéus joined Intentia in early 1999 from Genencor Inc., Rochester, NY, where he was Senior Vice President Business Operations. By merging our regional operations we are taking an important step toward achieving better global integration and faster realization of operational synergies, comments Björn Algkvist, CEO, Intentia International. I am delighted that Lars has accepted the role of COO since his substantial international experience will be of great value to Intentia. Intentia's Global Operations will comprise worldwide marketing, sales and services of Intentia's Movex enterprise applications and integrated e- business solutions. For further information, please contact: Björn Algkvist Lars Prochéus President and CEO COO Intentia Intentia International AB International AB Tel. +46 8 5552 5605 Tel. +44 1895 829 414 Intentia is one of the world's leading suppliers of enterprise applications. Our business concept is to develop and make business processes more effective by combining software and know-how. Our enterprise application Movex, is one of the most advanced on the market and is available in a number of industry applications to meet the unique requirements of different industry sectors. Movex is also one of the cornerstones of the Intentia Solution: a unique set of tools, methods and functionality for configuring and implementing enterprise applications. With the Intentia Solution we also offer our customers seamless e-business solutions, a fast growing segment of Intentia's business. Since it was founded in Sweden in 1984, Intentia has grown to a company with 3,500 employees and some 3000 clients in 40 countries around the world. In 1999 revenues exceeded USD 350 million. www.intentia.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/02/22/20000222BIT00330/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/02/22/20000222BIT00330/bit0002.pdf