Annual Report 2003 - Modern Times Group MTG AB

Board of directors
From left:
Asger Aamund (born 1940) Member of the Board of MTG since
2000. Asger is the majority shareholder in Bavarian Nordic
Research Institute and NeuroSearch, both of which are listed on
the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. He has many years’ experience
in top management positions and on the Boards of Danish
enterprises, and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of
A.J. Aamund.
Cristina Stenbeck (Born 1977) Member of the Board of MTG
since 2003. Vice Chairman of Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik,
Invik & Co and Metro International. Member of the Board of
Millicom International Cellular, Tele2 and Transcom Worldwide.
Pelle Törnberg (born 1956) Member of the Board of MTG since
2001. Pelle started Strix, Kinnevik’s first TV production company,
in 1987. He subsequently established and launched several
of the media operations that currently make up MTG. In
1993, Pelle assumed responsibility for all of Kinnevik’s media
companies. When shares in Metro International were distributed
to MTG’s shareholders in August 2000, he chose to become
President and CEO of Metro. He is also on the Board of
MediaCorp Singapore.
David Chance (born 1957), BA Economics, BSc Psychology, and
MBA. Chairman of the Board and has been a Member of the
Board of MTG since 1998. David previously served as Vice
President of BSkyB. As head of overall strategy and business
activities, David was part of making BSkyB into one of the
world’s most successful television companies. He joined BSkyB
in 1989 when he was recruited from Société Européenne de
Satellites (SES), which owns and operates the Astra satellite.
Prior to that, he worked for seven years in the US television
industry. Member of the Board of InterTrust, Viasat
Broadcasting UK and Granada Media Group.
Stig Nordin (born 1943), MSc Engineering. Member of the Board
of MTG since 1997. Stig has more than two decades of experience
in the forestry products industry. In 1989 he joined
Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik and has since then built
enterprises such as TV3 in London. Stig was appointed Vice
President of Kinnevik in 1991. He served as President from
1992 to 1999 and is now a member of the Board of
Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik. He was President of Invik & Co
until the second quarter of 2001 and previously served as
President of Korsnäs from 1993 to 1998.
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Hans-Holger Albrecht (born 1963), is President and CEO of
MTG. Hans-Holger has been active in MTG since 1997 as Head
of the Pay-TV operations, and following the merger of the Payand
Free-TV operations, as President of the entire business
area. He became Chief Operating Officer of MTG in May 2000,
and President and CEO in August 2000. He previously worked
for Daimler-Benz and with the CLT media group in Luxembourg,
where he was responsible for all television activities and development
in Germany and Eastern Europe. Hans-Holger was also
responsible for SuperRTL and CLT’s Digital-TV project. Hans-
Holger is not a member of the Board of Directors.
Lars-Johan Jarnheimer (born 1960), MSc Business and
Economics. Member of the Board of MTG since 1997. Lars-
Johan has held various positions with IKEA, Hennes & Mauritz,
SARA Hotels and Saab Opel Sverige and was President of ZTV,
part of MTG, for a short time before joining Comviq as Vice
President. Lars-Johan was President of Comviq from 1993 to
1997. On January 1, 1999, he was appointed Vice President of
Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik and President of Investment AB
Kinnevik. Since 1999, Lars-Johan has been President of Tele2
(formerly NetCom). He is also on the Boards of Invik & Co, Millicom
International Cellular, Svenska UMTS-Nät and Arvid Nordquist.
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