Halmstad, Sweden, March 15, 2010
The nomination committeeof HMS Networks AB proposes an addition of two new board
members. As new members the committee proposes Gunilla Wikman, with corporate
communications background and Charlotte Brogren, with R&D experience within
Automation.
At the 2010 annual general meeting in HMS Networks AB the nomination committee
proposes reelection of Urban Jansson, board member in several listed companies,
Nicolas Hassbjer, founder of HMS, Ray Mauritsson, CEO in Axis AB (publ), Göran
Sigfridsson, former CEO of Beijer Electronics AB (publ) and Henrik Johansson,
division manager within Latour.
Proposed new board members:
Gunilla Wikman, born 1959, Communication consultant at Carrara Communication and
board member of Proffice AB (publ) and AMF Fonder. Gunilla Wikman has previous
experience as economy journalist at Veckans Affärer and SVT, Head of
Communications at SEB and the Central bank of Sweden as well as IR-Manager at
Swedish Match.
Charlotte Brogren, born 1963, Director General for Vinnova and a board member of
Industrifonden and KTH Holding. Vinnova is a governmental agency under the
Ministry of Industry which is actively promoting sustainable growth through
research and development. Charlotte Brogren has previous experience as
Development Manager and Group Vice President at ABB Robotics until September
2009. Before that she held leading positions within Corporate R&D at ABB Group
in Zürich.
Urban Jansson is proposed for reelection as the Chairman of the Board and
Nicolas Hassbjer is proposed to be reelected as vice Chairman at the board
meeting following the annual general meeting. The proposal implies an extension
with two persons of the company's board of directors which for the following
term will consist of seven members.
Members of the nomination committee are: Chairman Jan Svensson (Investment AB
Latour), Nicolas Hassbjer (Hassbjer Investment AB), Per Trygg (SEB Fonder) and
Urban Jansson (Chairman of the Board).The nomination committee is representing
52% of the shares in HMS. Complete information regarding the present board
members can be found on the company's IR homepage investors.hms.se, Corporate
Governance/Board of directors.
<http://investors.hms.se/extra/pod/?id=61&module_instance=1&action=pod_show&lang
=en&navid=61>
The annual general meeting will be held at 10.00 am on Monday April 19, 2010 at
HMS Headquarters in Halmstad, Stationsgatan 37.
For further information please contact:
Gunnar Högberg, CFO and IR-Manager, phone: +46 35 17 29 95
Photos and background information for journalists can be found under "Press
<http://investors.hms.se/extra/pod/?id=52&module_instance=1&action=pod_show&lang
=en&navid=52>" at http://investors.hms.se <http://investors.hms.se/>.
HMS Networks AB (publ) is a world-leading supplier of communication technology
for industrial automation. Sales for 2009 amounted to SEK 245 million. Over 90%
of these sales were to customers located outside Sweden. All development and the
major portion of manufacturing is carried out at the head office in Halmstad.
Sales offices are located in Japan, China, Germany, the USA, Italy and France.
HMS has 155 employees and produces network interface cards and products to
interconnect different networks under the trademark Anybus®. The network
interface cards are embedded in automation equipment such as inverter drives,
robots, control systems and sensors. This allows subcomponents in machines to
communicate with one another and with different networks in order to build more
efficient and flexible automation systems with reduced energy consumption. HMS
is listed on NASDAQ-OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm in the category Small Cap,
Information Technology.
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