Gränges’ Nomination Committee proposes Cecilia Daun Wennborg and Mikael Bratt as new Board members of Gränges AB
February 20, 2024 at 02:01 am EST
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Cecilia Daun Wennborg, Board member of Getinge AB, Loomis AB, and Bravida Holding AB among others, and Mikael Bratt, President, CEO, and member of the Board of Directors of Autoliv Inc., are proposed as new members of the Board of Directors to be elected at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on May 8, 2024. Katarina Lindström and Hans Porat are not available for re-election and will leave the Board of Directors in conjunction with the AGM.
“We are very pleased to be able to propose Cecilia Daun Wennborg and Mikael Bratt as new members of the Gränges’ Board. With Cecilia’s extensive experience from board work in several publicly listed companies and Mikael’s solid background as business leader and CFO in companies in the automotive industry, they will constitute a strong addition to the Board,” says Jannis Kitsakis, Chairman of Gränges’ Nomination Committee.
Cecilia Daun Wennborg has a long and broad experience from executive positions in the bank, insurance, and healthcare sectors among others, as well as more than 20 years as board member in different publicly listed and private companies. Some of her current assignments comprise board member in Getinge AB, Loomis AB, Bravida Holding AB and Oncopeptides AB. Cecilia holds a BS. in Business Administration from Stockholm University, Sweden.
Mikael Bratt, currently President, CEO, and member of the Board of Directors of Autoliv Inc., has a thorough background from the automotive industry globally in different key positions. Prior to Autoliv, he worked approximately 30 years at Volvo Group, most recently as EVP Group Truck Operations, and before that, as CFO. He was also a member of the Group Management team of AB Volvo. Mikael has studied Business Administration at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Katarina Lindström and Hans Porat will leave the Board of Directors in conjunction with the 2024 AGM. They were both elected to Gränges’ Board in 2016 and have taken a highly active role, in particular regarding the acquisitions of Noranda in the US in 2016 and Aluminium Konin in Poland in 2020, as well as the development of Gränges’ Navigate strategy for sustainable growth. Katarina has been a member of the Audit Committee, and Hans has been a member of the Remuneration Committee.
The Nomination Committee is, in addition, proposing re-election of Fredrik Arp, Steven Armstrong, Mats Backman, Martina Buchhauser, Peter Carlsson, and Gunilla Saltin. Fredrik Arp is proposed to continue as Chairman of the Board. The Nomination Committee’s proposal thus means that the Board of Directors will continue to consist of eight Board members elected by the Annual General Meeting without deputies.
The Nomination Committee for the Annual General Meeting 2024 consists of representatives from the company’s three largest shareholders and Gränges Chairman of the Board: Jannis Kitsakis (AP4) and Chairman of the Nomination Committee, Jan Dworsky (Swedbank Robur funds), Anders Algotsson (AFA Insurance) and Fredrik Arp (Chairman of the Board of Gränges).
The Nomination Committee’s other resolutions and its statement will be published with the notice to the Annual General Meeting.
Gränges’ Annual General Meeting will be held in Stockholm on Wednesday May 8, 2024, at 15.30 CEST.
Getinge AB is the world's leader in producing and marketing medical equipment intended to health care facilities (clinics, hospitals, rest homes, etc.). Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- medical systems (57.4%): equipment for operating rooms (primarily tables and lighting systems), ventilators and heart and lung machines, etc.;
- hospital sterilization equipment (29.4%);
- contamination prevention equipment (13.2%): in the fields of biopharmaceutical production, biomedical research, manufacturing of medical devices and laboratory applications.
Net sales break down by source of income into sales of equipment (45.3%), consumables (37.1%), services and spare parts (17.6%).
At the end of 2021, the group had 20 production sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Sweden (1.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (35.8%), Americas (37.9%) and Asia/Pacific (24.5%).
GETINGE AB 
