New Group Chief Controller for SEB Group

New Group Chief Controller for SEB Group Per-Arne Blomquist has been appointed Group Chief Controller of the SEB Group, with responsibility for the Group's financial control and controller functions. He will report directly to Anders Rydin, SEB's CFO. Per-Arne joins SEB from Halogen AB, where he was CFO and COO for the Halogen group. He previously held senior financial positions at Telia and Alfa Laval. Per-Arne Blomquist will assume his new position in May. In conjunction with Per-Arne Blomquist's appointment, the current head of the Group's financial function, Jan Siling, will move to a position as Senior Adviser to the Group's CFO. SEB is a European financial group especially for corporations and financially active private individuals. SEB has 630 branch offices in Sweden, Germany and the Baltic States, with 4 million customers in total. Of these, 850,000 are Internet customers. SEB also has operations in the rest of the Nordic countries, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The balance sheet total is SEK 1,123 billion and assets under management amount to SEK 910 billion. The number of employees amount to 21,500. Read more about SEB: www.seb.net For further information, please contact: Anders Rydin, Senior Vice President and CFO, +46 8 221 900. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/20/20010319BIT00820/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/20/20010319BIT00820/bit0001.pdf