New composition of Nordea's Group Executive Management
New composition of Nordea's Group Executive Management Following the appointment of Lars G Nordström as new Group CEO the composition of and the responsibilities within Nordea's Group Executive Management will be changed as from 1 October 2002. A new organisational unit, Group Processing and Technology, will be established with the responsibility of central production and processing and coordination of Group-wide integration projects. The new unit will speed up consolidation and integration and free up resources in business areas, thus enabling an even stronger customer and business focus. Markku Pohjola, currently Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking, has been appointed head of the new unit which will consist of Group IT, Electronic Banking, Global Operations Services and Production & Productivity. Kari Jordan, currently Head of Retail Banking Finland and Peter Schütze, currently Head of Retail Banking Denmark have been appointed new members of Group Executive Management; Kari Jordan as Head of Retail Banking and Peter Schütze as Head of Group Staffs. Tom Ruud, currently Head of Group Staffs, has been appointed Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking. Christian Clausen, Carl-Johan Granvik and Arne Liljedahl will keep their present positions. - The new Group Executive Management team will speed up and complete the transformation of Nordea into a fully integrated Nordic financial services group. We will act as a team and each of us will take on Group responsibility for implementation of our Nordic strategy. We will concentrate on our strengths, compete and continuously improve performance to create value for shareholders and customers, says Lars G Nordström, Group CEO of Nordea. To support and speed up implementation of Group decisions and to coordinate Group strategy execution and initiatives in the national markets members of Group Executive Management will also act as Country Senior Executives in each of the Nordic countries: Denmark: Peter Schütze Finland: Markku Pohjola Sweden: Arne Liljedahl Norway: Tom Ruud The composition of Group Executive Management as from 1 October 2002: Lars G Nordström Group CEO Christian Clausen Head of Asset Management & Life Carl-Johan Granvik Head of Group Credit and Risk Control, Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Kari Jordan Head of Retail Banking Arne Liljedahl Head of Group Corporate Centre, CFO Markku Pohjola Head of Group Processing and Technology, Deputy Group CEO Tom Ruud Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking Peter Schütze Head of Group Staffs For further information: Lars G Nordström, Group CEO, +46 8 614 7807 Erik Evrén, Head of Group Media Relations, +46 8 614 86 11 Photos available at www.nordea.com under Press room Enclosure: Nordea Group organisation as from 1 October 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/09/18/20020918BIT00610/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/09/18/20020918BIT00610/wkr0002.pdf http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/09/18/20020918BIT00610/wkr0003.pdf Organisation