Gothenburg, 24 August 2022: SKF announces the appointment of Annika Ölme as CTO and Senior Vice President, Technology Development.

Annika joins SKF from SAAB Radar Solutions, where she is CTO and Head of Engineering. Annika has also been Managing Director of Arcam, a subsidiary of General Electric. Between 2002-2017, Annika held various positions within SKF.

Annika has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from Waikato University.

Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO, says: "I'm happy to welcome Annika back to SKF and look forward to working with her as we continue to strengthen our technology development efforts for traditional and future applications around the rotating shaft."

Annika will join SKF on 15 October.

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PRESS: Theo Kjellberg, Director, Press Relations
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SKF's mission is to be the undisputed leader in the bearing business. We do this by offering solutions that reduce friction and CO2 emissions, whilst at the same time increasing machine uptime and performance. Our products and services around the rotating shaft include bearings, seals, lubrication management, artificial intelligence and wireless condition monitoring. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 17,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2021 were SEK 81,732 million and the number of employees was 42,602. www.skf.com

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