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Fornebu, Norway /Bangkok, Thailand July 4, 2008 -- DTAC CEO Mr.
Sigve Brekke takes up the position
as head of Telenor Region Asia and
joins Telenor's Group Executive Management on September 1, 2008.
Brekke succeeds Mr. Arve Johansen, who returns to the Telenor
Headquarters in Norway as a special advisor to the CEO. Mr. Tore
Johnsen will take over as new CEO of DTAC.
"We are very pleased
that Sigve Brekke will join the Group Executive Management, and look
forward to benefiting from his many years of experience in our
international operations. His strategic competence and operational
knowledge are qualities that will benefit both Telenor and our
companies," said Telenor President and CEO, Mr. Jon Fredrik Baksaas.
Prior to joining DTAC in 2002, Brekke worked at
Telenor's Singapore office for three years. In his career, Sigve Brekke
has served as the Deputy Minister (State Secretary) of Defence in
Norway in 1993, and has also held positions at the Norwegian Defence
Research Establishment and had an associate position at John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University in the USA. Under his
supervision, DTAC has become a major mobile operator in Thailand with
16.7 million customers (Q1 '08).
 "I am looking forward to take on a regional role in
Telenor Asia. I am grateful for getting this opportunity, and it will
be exciting to broaden the horizon and to further develop Telenor's
operations both on a regional and a group level," said Sigve Brekke,
CEO of DTAC and future Head of Telenor Asia.
Deputy CEO Arve Johansen has been heading Telenor
Region Asia since the establishment in 2006. He joined Telenor in 1989
and has held a number of positions in the Group. He has served as CEO
of Telenor Mobile from 1999 to 2005 and was CEO of Telenor
International AS from its inception in 1993 to 1999. At the expiration
of his appointed assignment period on September 1, Arve Johansen will
serve as a special advisor to the President and CEO until he retires in
June 2009.
"We are very fortunate to have had Arve Johansen as
a key person in the development of Telenor. He has been the main
architect of our international expansion strategy from 1993 and
onwards, and his insights and contributions both in Asia and in Europe
have been most valuable. I thank him for his great contributions," said
Telenor President and CEO, Mr. Jon Fredrik Baksaas.
"Seeing the development of Telenor's international
expansion has truly been rewarding. Although I have been actively
involved with more or less all of Telenor's operations, the Asian
region has always been something special to me. Today, our four
companies in Asia alone constitute 40 percent of Telenor's total
customer base, which in itself is a testimony of the tremendous
transformation of Telenor from a purely Norwegian company to a global
mobile player," said Arve Johansen, Deputy CEO of Telenor and Head of
Region Asia.
 Replacing Mr. Brekke as CEO of DTAC is Mr. Tore
Johnsen, CEO of Telenor Pakistan since the inception in 2004. Before
moving to Pakistan, Johnsen served four years as Strategy Director and
later CEO of DiGi Telecommunications in Malaysia. He joined the Telenor
Group in 1974, and he has held a number of managerial positions and
international assignments. Johnsen holds a Master of Science in
addition to studies in International Business Management. A new CEO of
Telenor Pakistan will be announced in due time before September 1.
Images courtesy of Telenor website
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