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New CEO for NEC Scandinavia

 

Mats Almgren will become MD of NEC Scandinavia on 31 October. Mats' most recent position has been sales and marketing director at TDC Song AB. NEC's current MD, Patrik Hofbauer, will stand down in September.

 

Mats' most recent role has been sales and marketing director at TDC Song AB. Before that, he held a number of leading positions and has solid experience of the telecom sector, including with Telenordia and Preseco Info Systems.

 

"Mats' experience from sales within advanced services and products, in combination with his knowledge of the telecom sector will strengthen our offer. Mats will be a valuable contribution to the Company," says Chris Shimizu, Corporate Communications Manager for NEC Europe.

 

NEC recently took over the operations in Finland of the Japanese trading house Marubeni. Furthermore, a number of new products within telecom will be launched during the autumn.

 

"It feels really great to be able to work for a company that has such a broad and exciting product portfolio. For me, the challenge is in maintaining the market-leading position that NEC holds within presentation products and data storage, simultaneously as we significantly advance our positions within the telecom area in the whole of the Nordic region," says Mats Almgren, MD-elect.

 

About NEC Scandinavia AB

 

NEC is one of the world's leading suppliers of computer and telecommunications products. The Group, founded in Tokyo in 1899, currently has more than 140,000 employees and a turnover of USD 39 billion. Today, NEC supplies more than 15,000 different products, ranging from microchips to satellite stations. The Company opened its first Nordic office in 1984 and is currently represented throughout the Nordic region with offices in Stockholm (head office), Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki. NEC's Nordic product range comprises picture screens, projectors, plasma screens, storage products, mobile telephones, as well as platforms, applications and hardware for mobile internal broadband and 3G networks. Further information is available at www.nec.se.

 

For further information, kindly contact:

 

Mats Almgren

MD-elect NEC

Mobile: +46 (0)701- 810240

Jenny Nilsson

Marketing Manager NEC

Tel: +46 (08)-635 92 63

Mobile: +46 (0)735-35 92 63

E-mail jenny.nilsson@nec.se