The following new members have been elected to OMX Exchanges’ and Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Boards: John Abrahamson, CEO of Enskilda Securities; Carl-Olof By, Executive Vice President & CFO of Industrivärden; Christian Clausen, Head of Asset Management & Life at Nordea; Peter Engberg Jensen, Group Managing Director at Nykredit and Hans Munk Nielsen, Senior Executive Vice President & CFO of TDC.
The following persons will continue to be members of the Board: Chairman Magnus Böcker, President and CEO of OMX; Vice Chairman Thomas Franzén, formerly Head of the Swedish National Debt Office; Ilona Ervasti-Vaintola, Chief Counsel and Executive Vice President of Sampo; Matti Kinnunen, Chief Operating Officer of Carnegie; Timo Ritakallio, First Executive Vice President of OKO Bank and Jukka Ruuska, President of Stockholm Stock Exchange and President OMX Exchanges.
Bengt Rydén, formerly President of Stockholm Stock Exchange, and Bo Magnusson, Head of Cash Management and Securities Services at SEB, have resigned. However, Bengt Rydén will continue to serve as Chairman of Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Listing Committee.
The new Boards will become effective when Copenhagen Stock Exchange is integrated into OMX Exchanges’ organization on April 1, 2005.