Paulina Ekvall Appointed Senior Vice President Corporate Human Resources at BillerudKorsnäs

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Paulina Ekvall has been recruited as the new Senior Vice President Corporate Human Resources at BillerudKorsnäs (STO:BILL). She was most recently at Arla Foods Sweden, where she was Senior HR Director and successfully oversaw the organization’s move towards greater customer and employee focus.

Paulina Ekvall has a solid background as an HR manager in various multinational environments, including at Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. Paulina was Senior HR Director at Arla Foods Sweden for the past few years. Her work attracted recognition in 2015 when she won that year’s HR Manager in Human Growth Award.

"We are delighted to have been able to recruit Paulina Ekvall to the post of HR Director at BillerudKorsnäs and wish her a warm welcome to us. BillerudKorsnäs is a company with great ambitions and we know that the realization of these ambitions requires that all our employees drive change every day, on both large and small scales. I therefore look forward to incorporating Paulina's experience and energy into our future development,” says Per Lindberg, President and CEO of BillerudKorsnäs.

This information is information that BillerudKorsnäs Aktiebolag (publ) is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 13.00 CET on November 7th 2016.

BillerudKorsnäs provides packaging materials and solutions that challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future. We are a world-leading provider of primary fibre based packaging materials and have customers in over 100 countries. The company has seven production sites in Sweden, Finland and the UK and about 4 200 employees in over 13 countries. BillerudKorsnäs has an annual turnover of about SEK 22 billion and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.billerudkorsnas.com

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