Electrolux has appointed Anna Ohlsson-Leijon, currently CFO of the business area Major Appliances EMEA, as new Chief Financial Officer of AB Electrolux. The company has also appointed Ola Nilsson, until now head of the laundry product line within Major Appliances EMEA, as new head of the business area Small Appliances and Executive Vice President of AB Electrolux. They will both be members of Group Management, reporting to the President and CEO, Jonas Samuelson. “Anna will be an excellent addition to Group Management, with long experience from financial functions throughout Electrolux – said Samuelson -. As CFO of Major Appliances EMEA, she has been responsible for driving the strategic agenda and was a key contributor to the earnings improvement of the business area”. “I am very pleased – he added – to present Ola as our new head of Small Appliances. He has a very good track record from running Small Appliances in Asia-Pacific and most recently successfully led the turn-around of our laundry business in EMEA”.
