New Member of SAS Airline Management Team: Wittrup Willumsen Appointed Head of Product Management and Marketing.Business Editors STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2001 Jens Wittrup Willumsen has been appointed Senior Vice President for SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. Marketing & Product Management (Stockholm Stock Exchange The Stockholm Stock Exchange (Swedish: Stockholmsbörsen) is a stock exchange located in Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863 [1] it is the primary securities exchange of the Nordic Countries. : SAS.). In this position, his responsibilities include the airline's brand, product development, market communications and loyalty program. Wittrup Willumsen will be a member of the newly formed SAS management team and Marie Ehrling Marie Ehrling is a Swedish Executive, (Born May 5, 1955) who was listed #85 in Forbes' 2006 List of 100 Most Powerful Women. Formerly deputy chief executive of SAS, Sweden's national airline, which she left in 2002, after 20 years, when she was passed over for the top spot. , SAS's Deputy CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and airline manager, will be his immediate superior. Jens Wittrup Willumsen was born in 1960 and is an economics graduate. He returns to SAS after spending the past five years as president of Mediacom in Denmark and president of Denmark's ACNielsen AIM A/S. He worked for SAS from 1989-1996 in Sweden and Denmark, foremostly heading marketing operations in Denmark. "I am pleased to be returning to SAS," says Jens Wittrup Willumsen. "I regard working with market communications at SAS as a challenge, particularly at a time when the spotlight is on the company. Becoming part of the new and relatively young airline management team means a new beginning, as does working with SAS's exciting new products." It has not yet been decided when the new head of product management and marketing will assume his position. A picture of Jens Wittrup Willumsen is available at http://www.scandinavian.net/company/newsfacts/picture/management/stodoh/jenswittrupwillumsen.zip NOTE TO EDITORS: (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.) |
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