Proact appoints Jonas Hasselberg as new CEO
The Board of Directors at Proact IT Group AB has appointed Jonas Hasselberg as new President and CEO. Jonas Hasselberg joins from a position as Vice President Telia Company AB, where he has headed the consumer business in Sweden.
In his current role at Telia, Jonas Hasselberg has responsibility for the Swedish consumer business, which includes all mobile, broadband and television services sold in the consumer market under the Telia and Halebop brands. He is also responsible for Telia Sweden’s operations in data analytics as well as Telia’s retail network in Sweden. Previously Jonas Hasselberg was responsible for Telia’s investments in global growth areas, such as the Internet of Things and cloud applications. Prior to that, he has held senior leadership positions in international hardware and software companies, based in Sweden and abroad, including Nokia, Mycronic and Microsoft.
"Jonas combines proven leadership skills with a strong commercial ability and extensive technical knowledge which makes him very well suited to lead Proact. Proact’s strategy is based on developing data center offerings with associated consulting and support services, in parallel with an increased focus on cloud services. Together with Jonas, we aim to make Proact even more attractive for customers, employees and shareholders,” says Proact’s chair Eva Elmstedt.
"Proact has a very strong position in the rapidly changing and growing market driven by digitization. With continued focus on customers and innovation, Proact has exciting potential to strengthen its position even more, through complete solutions within cloud services and data centers. I look forward to joining this journey together with all of Proact's immensely capable employees, "says Jonas Hasselberg.
Jonas Hasselberg will assume his position no later than December 1, 2018.
Peter Javestad, who in an excellent manner performs the work as acting President and CEO, will resume his previous position as Vice President when Jonas Hasselberg joins.
The Board of Directors
For further information please contact:
Eva Elmstedt, Chair of the Board, eva.elmstedt@syntavia.com
About Proact
Proact is Europe’s leading independent data centre and cloud services provider. By delivering flexible, accessible and secure IT solutions and services, we help companies and authorities reduce risk and costs, whilst increasing agility, productivity and efficiency. We’ve completed over 5,000 successful projects around the world, have more than 3,500 customers and currently manage in excess of 100 petabytes of information in the cloud. We employ over 800 people in 15 countries across Europe and North America. Founded in 1994, our parent company, Proact IT Group AB (publ), listed on Nasdaq Stockholm in 1999 (under the symbol PACT).
For further information about Proact’s activities please visit us at www.proact.eu
The information is such information as Proact IT Group (publ) shall publish in accordance with lagen om värdepappersmarknad, the Securities Market Act, and/or lagen om handel med finansiella instrument, the Act on Trading in Financial Instruments. This information was submitted for publication on 29 May 2018.
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