The Board of Directors has appointed Hans Sohlström President and CEO of Ahlstrom-Munksjö, effective as of June 30, 2018, at the latest. Sohlström is currently the President and CEO of Ahlström Capital Group.
Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s current President and CEO Jan Åström will retire from the position on June 30, 2018, at the latest. He has been the President and CEO of the company since its creation through the merger of Ahlstrom Corporation and Munksjö Oyj on April 1, 2017, and before that he was the President and CEO of Munksjö since 2008.
Hans Sohlström has been the President and CEO of Ahlström Capital since early 2016. Before that he worked for 3.5 years as the President and CEO of Rettig Group and 24 years in various leadership positions at UPM-Kymmene Corporation, of which eight years as member of the Group Executive Team.
Hans Sohlström will continue as the Chairman of the Board until the end of the Annual General Meeting in 2018, but refrain from participating in the work of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board. The Board of Directors has today resolved to change the composition of the Human Resources Committee and elected Peter Seligson as new member and Hannele Jakosuo-Jansson as Chair of the Human Resources Committee instead of Hans Sohlström. The members of the Human Resources Committee are Hannele Jakosuo-Jansson (Chair), Peter Seligson and Johannes Gullichsen. All the members of the Human Resources Committee are considered independent of the company and its significant shareholders.
Ahlstrom-Munksjö is a global leader in fiber-based materials.
