Ahlstrom to Modify Executive Management Team

Ahlstrom, Finland, reports that it aims to achieve sales growth through winning new business and speeding up the commercialization of new products. To achieve this, changes in sales management will be implemented to enable a stronger execution power in the regional sales organization and better collaboration between the business areas and regional sales.

Regional sales organizations will be strengthened. In the new set-up, the EVPs of sales regions will report directly to the president and CEO and will be members of the executive management team. The position of EVP, sales and marketing, will be discontinued and the position eliminated from the executive management team.

The following appointments to the executive management team were made:

The appointments become effective next Monday, February 10.

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