Ratos: Nomination Committee's proposal regarding Board of Directors
Ahead of Ratos's 2014 Annual General Meeting, the Nomination Committee proposes
that Charlotte Strömberg be elected as a new member of the Board. Margareth
Øvrum has declined re-election. The Nomination Committee proposes re-election of
Board members Lars Berg, Staffan Bohman, Arne Karlsson, Annette Sadolin, Jan
Söderberg and Per-Olof Söderberg. Arne Karlsson is proposed as Chairman of the
Board.
Charlotte Strömberg, born 1959, has many years' experience from the financial
sector and Swedish enterprises. She has been CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle in the
Nordic region for six years and has also held a number of executive positions in
Carnegie Investment Bank and Alfred Berg/ABN AMRO. Today Charlotte Strömberg is
self-employed and a member of the boards of Boomerang AB, Castellum AB, Intrum
Justitia AB, Karolinska institutet, Skanska AB, Swedbank AB (until the next AGM)
and the Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4). Charlotte Strömberg has a
BSc from the Stockholm School of Economics. As per today's date Charlotte
Strömberg owns 1,400 B shares in Ratos.
A detailed presentation of the other proposed Board members can be found at
www.ratos.se.
The Nomination Committee comprises Ulrika Danielson (Chairman, representing
AP2), Ulf Fahlgren (representing Akademiinvest), Arne Karlsson (Chairman of
Ratos's Board), Jan Söderberg (representing his own and related parties'
holdings), Maria Söderberg (representing the Torsten Söderberg Foundation) and
Per-Olof Söderberg (representing the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation and his own and
related parties' holdings).
Ratos's Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 16.30
CET at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre in Stockholm.
For further information, please contact:
Ulrika Danielson, Chairman of the Nomination Committee, +46 31 704 29 29
Arne Karlsson, Chairman of the Board, Ratos, +46 8 700 17 00
Financial calendar from Ratos:
Annual General Meeting 2014 27 March 2014
Interim Report January-March 2014 8 May 2014
Interim Report January-June 2014 14 August 2014
Interim Report January-September 2014 7 November 2014
Ratos is a private equity conglomerate. The company's mission is to maximise
shareholder value over time through the professional, active and responsible
exercise of its ownership role in primarily medium to large unlisted Nordic
companies. Ratos's holdings include AH Industries, Aibel, Arcus-Gruppen, Biolin
Scientific, Bisnode, DIAB, Euromaint, GS-Hydro, Hafa Bathroom Group, HENT, HL
Display, Inwido, Jøtul, KVD, Mobile Climate Control, Nebula, Nordic Cinema Group
and SB Seating. Ratos is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and market
capitalisation amounts to approximately SEK 21billion.