PETER JAHN APPOINTED AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR NEW ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS UNIT TO ETTEPLAN
Stock exchange release – Published: 22.01.2010 9:32:00
PETER JAHN APPOINTED AS VICE PRESIDENT FOR NEW ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS UNIT TO ETTEPLAN Peter Jahn (45) has been appointed as Vice President, Enterprise Solutions to Etteplan Group as of February 8, 2010. Jahn is a member of Etteplan Oyj's management group and reports to President and CEO Matti Hyytiäinen. Peter Jahn comes to Etteplan from Intertek Group Plc where he was Sales Director of Commercial & Electrical division in Europe. In this position Jahn was responsible for key accounts headquartered in Europe for the whole Intertek Group. Jahn has a profound knowledge of different industries' product development and design processes such as engineering industry, consumer electronics, medical technology equipment manufacturers and telecommunications. New Enterprise Solutions unit concentrates on Etteplan's global key customers with an aim to improve competitiveness of customers' operations by offering comprehensive technical design and product information expertise and operational services that are assorted to international business environment. ”Business environment of our customers has changed rapidly. Tightened competition and changed focus of demand to Asia in a number of business areas has, with an increasing speed, lead to new decisions by our customers to renew their production structures and operational models. At the same time, our customers are, even strongly, focusing on their core business. To this change in operating environment, Etteplan brings new service solutions. Operational and expertise services in the areas of technical design and product information bring our customers significant flexibility in operations and cost effective operating models. We also offer localisation services related to production transfer to our customers that already have production in Asian market or have made the decision to transfer production there. We have received positive feedback from many of our customers for our global delivery model as our cooperation has broadened to include a growing number of technical design and product information services. By establishing a new Enterprise Solutions unit we continue our investments to support customers' global businesses. I am glad that we have been able to strengthen our management group with Peter Jahn who has a strong background of executing solutions in service business in a global environment and long experience of managerial positions in sales and marketing in multinational companies.”, comments Matti Hyytiäinen. Hollola, January 22, 2010, Etteplan Oyj Group Communications Additional information: President and CEO Matti Hyytiäinen, tel. +358 400 710 968 DISTRIBUTION: NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Major media www.etteplan.com Etteplan is a specialist in industrial equipment engineering and technical product information solutions and services. Our customers are global leaders in their fields and operate in areas like the automotive, aerospace and defence industries as well as the electricity generation and power transmission sectors, and material flow management. Etteplan has comprehensive competence in electronics and embedded systems development, automation and electrical design, mechanical design and technical product information solutions and services. Etteplan's strength lies in its highly skilled employees who, being located near to the customers, are able to develop close, long term business relationships. We implement solutions globally according to customer needs. In 2008, Etteplan had turnover of EUR 135.3 million. The company currently has approximately 1,700 employees. Etteplan's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd under the ETT1V ticker.