New President and CEO of Rejlers

The Board of Directors of Rejlers AB has appointed Viktor Svensson as the new President and CEO of Rejlers, beginning by 1 March 2018. Viktor most recently comes from ÅF where he has worked in several different roles over the past 15 years, including as the Head of Corporate Communications, Head of Group Sales and in recent years as the President of the ÅF Technology Division. Peter Rejler will be proposed as the Chairman of the Board of the company at the Annual General Meeting in 2018.

Viktor’s mission at Rejlers will be to continue the transition to a more efficient organisation and operation with the focus on achieving our profitability and growth goals, and focusing on digitalisation and strategic efforts that give us the right conditions to strengthen our market position in the Nordic region.

Viktor Svensson
Viktor has successfully contributed to ÅF’s development in recent years through his various roles and has been a part of ÅF’s Group management since 2003. Since 2015, he has been the President of the ÅF Technology Division with operations in R&D, communication technology and IT. Today, the division has sales of around SEK 2 billion.

“In Viktor Svensson, Rejlers is getting a CEO with a significant understanding of Rejlers’ strategy, our markets and our business areas. Viktor has extensive experience and expertise from the technical consulting industry. I’m very pleased that Viktor is taking over as the CEO of Rejlers to lead our transition to a digitalised and more efficient operation and to create added value for our shareholders,” says Peter Rejler.

“It’s with great energy and enthusiasm that I’m taking over as the President and CEO of Rejlers. I’m looking forward to leading Rejlers into the future in a growing technical consulting market in a connected world,” says Viktor Svensson.

In his 16 years as the President and CEO, Peter Rejler has successfully developed Rejlers into one of the Nordic region’s largest technical consultancies with 2,000 employees in Sweden, Finland and Norway.

For further information:
Peter Rejler; President and CEO, email: peter.rejler@rejlers.se
Ivar Verner; Chairman of the Board, tel. +46 (0)70-821 70 31, email: ivar@vernerpartners.se

Rejlers is one of the largest engineering consultancy firms in the Nordic region. Our 2,000 experts work with projects in the areas of Building and property, Energy, Industry and Infrastructure. At Rejlers, you will meet specialist engineers with the knowledge, cutting edge expertise and energy to achieve results. We are still experiencing rapid growth and can now be found in 80 locations in Sweden, Finland and Norway. Rejlers recorded revenue of SEK 2.3 billion in 2016 and its class B share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

This information is information that Rejlers AB (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 08.00 on August 24th 2017.