Alan Begg appointed Senior Vice President SKF Group Technology Development and Quality

Alan Begg appointed Senior Vice President SKF Group Technology Development and
Quality

Dr Alan Begg has been appointed Senior Vice President, Group Technology
Development and Quality.

He will take up his position on 16 April and will as from the same date become
member of the SKF Group Management.

Dr Begg has held senior technical positions in major multinational companies in
the UK and USA. After spending much of his early career in BP, he has headed up
the technology functions in: T&N as Managing Director of the Group Technical
Centre; Federal-Mogul as Vice President for Technology; and Morgan Crucible as
Group Director of Technology. He joins SKF from the Automotive Academy in
Birmingham, UK, a groundbreaking government and industry skills partnership,
where he is Chief Executive Officer. 

Dr Begg, age 52, has a PhD in Metallurgy from Cambridge University. He is also
Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Professor at the University of
Birmingham and a member of the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board.

Göteborg, 26 March 2007

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