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Vacon's CFO Pia Aaltonen-Forsell to start maternity leave
Vacon Plc, Stock Exchange Release, 25 November 2013 at 1.00 pm (EET)
Vacon's CFO Pia Aaltonen-Forsell will be starting her maternity leave in February 2014. For the duration of her maternity leave, Ann-Louise Brännback, M.Sc. Econ. (born 1964), has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Vacon Plc and member of the company's Executive Management Team.
Ann-Louise Brännback has held several managing positions in finance and control in the Vacon Group including Group Controller. Most recently she has acted as Director, Business Control Product Operations and been a member of the Vacon's Product Operation's Management Team. In prior to Vacon, Ann-Louise had various finance and control positions in Wärtsilä, KPMG and Leinolat Oy.
"We are very happy to welcome Ann-Louise to join Vacon's Executive Management Team and IR Team. Her long experience from working in finance and control, and in a listed company will provide her with good qualifications to succeed in this position," says Vesa Laisi, Vacon's President and CEO.
VACON PLC
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Vacon in brief:
Vacon is driven by a passion to develop, manufacture and sell the best AC drives and inverters in the world - and provide customers with efficient product lifecycle services. Our AC drives offer optimum process control and energy efficiency for electric motors. Vacon inverters play a key role when energy is produced from renewable sources. Vacon has production and R&D facilities in Europe, Asia and North America, and sales offices in 27 countries. Further, Vacon has sales representatives and service partners in nearly 90 countries. In 2011, Vacon's revenues amounted to EUR 380.9 million, and the company employed globally approximately 1,500 people. The shares of Vacon Plc (VAC1V) are quoted on the main list of the Helsinki stock exchange (NASDAQ OMX Helsinki).
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