STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 13, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Ms. Fields Wicker-Miurin will be proposed as non-executive Board member of D. Carnegie & Co AB to the Annual General Meeting on March 13, 2003. Ms. Karin Forseke, to be appointed as CEO after the AGM, will be proposed as executive member of the Board.
Singer & Friedlander Securities Ltd., representing approximately 31 per cent of the votes in Carnegie, have informed the Board of Directors that they intend to vote in favour of a proposal of electing Ms. Fields Wicker-Miurin and Ms. Karin Forseke as new members of the Board. Singer & Friedlander will also vote in favour of a proposal to increase the maximum number of Board members to nine.
Ms. Fields Wicker-Miurin is an international business executive with more than 20 years experience in the global financial services industry. She is an Executive Director of Leaders Quest, an international organisation that works with leaders from all sectors of business and society to build interdisciplinary, international leadership skills. Previously, Ms. Fields Wicker-Miurin was Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Vesta Group Ltd., an international venture capital firm. Between 1994 and 1997, Ms. Wicker-Miurin was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Strategy of the London Stock Exchange. She has also been a senior partner of both A.T. Kearney and Mercer Management Consulting.
Ms. Wicker-Miurin holds both executive and non-executive positions in business, EU financial services policy, U.K. business policy, education and the arts. She is a member of the Nasdaq Technology Advisory Council in New York and is one of ten members of the Panel of Experts selected to advise the EU Parliament on the harmonisation of financial services across the EU.
Carnegie is the leading Nordic investment bank and asset management firm operating in three principal business areas: Securities, Investment Banking and Asset Management & Private Banking. Carnegie provides a wide array of products and services to Nordic and international clients from offices in seven countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, U.K. and the U.S.