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Metro International announce changes to senior management
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - Metro International S.A. ("Metro" or the "Company"), the world'slargest international newspaper, today announced that four members ofthe Company's senior management have decided to leave Metro withinthe last weeks.Mr. Jan Sjöwall (Senior Vice President of Corporate Development), Mr.Steve Nylund (Executive Vice President - Head of CorporateDevelopment), Mr. Sakari Pitkänen (Vice President of MetroInteractive) and Mr. Robert Patterson (Executive Vice President) haveall decided to leave Metro for individual reasons.Mr. Jan Sjöwall has served a career within the Kinnevik Group since1988 where he was the founder and CEO for a wealth of companies. Mr.Sjöwall was the first Chief Executive Officer of Metro Internationaland has throughout his tenure with Metro worked with corporatedevelopment and new markets for the Company. Mr. Steve Nylund hasworked for the Kinnevik Group since 1993 and held various positionsat the Modern Times Group prior to joining Metro in year 2000. Mr.Sakari Pitkänen joined Metro in 1995 and was earlier this yearappointed Vice President of Metro Interactive. Prior to that, Mr.Pitkänen held the position of Metro's Global Editor-in-Chief. Mr.Robert Patterson joined Metro in year 2001 as Chief Financial Officerand has since year 2007 worked as Executive Vice Presidentoverlooking Metro's operations in Latin America, US, Russia and Asia.Mr. Per Mikael Jensen, CEO of Metro, commented: "I would like toextend my sincere gratitude to these four gentlemen for theirexceptional commitment to Metro. They have all made considerablecontributions to the growth and development of the Company. Steve,Rob, Sakari and Jan have all been instrumental in the establishmentof Metro as a revolutionary newspaper concept across the world. Theyare therefore an important part of Metro's history. They will all bemissed and never forgotten. I wish them all the best for the future."As a result of these resignations, Mr. Christian Toksvig, VicePresident of Corporate Development, has been appointed Executive VicePresident and will be a part of Metro's Executive Management Team.Mr. Toksvig will be responsible for existing and new business inAsia, Russia, and for the Global Sales department in London. Beforejoining Metro International last year, Mr. Toksvig was responsiblefor the international rollout of the lifestyle magazine, OK!, andserved as its CEO in North America.For further information please contact:Per Mikael Jensen, CEO and President Tel: +44 (0)78 4167 3230Anders Kronborg, CFO Tel: +44 (0)20 7016 1300 ***ABOUT METRO INTERNATIONALMetro is the largest international newspaper in the world. Metro ispublished in over 100 major cities in 18 countries across Europe,North & South America and Asia. Metro has a unique global reach -attracting a young, active, well-educated Metropolitan audience of 17million daily readers.Metro International S.A. shares are listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholmthrough Swedish Depository Receipts of series A and series B underthe symbols MTROA and MTROB.http://hugin.info/132142/R/1328249/313099.pdfThis announcement was originally distributed by Hugin. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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