SAS Group Management to Restructure

The Senior Vice President and General Counsel of SAS, Mats Lönnkvist, is to retire and leave SAS Group Management on 1 March 2015.

In connection with that Mats Lönnkvist leaving SAS, a restructure of SAS Group Management will be implemented.

The change means that additional responsibilities will be given to SAS new Chief of Staff, Carina Malmgren Heander, who besides HR and Communications now also will include Legal & Public and Regulatory Affairs. Marie Wohlfahrt will become SAS new General Counsel within the Legal & Public organization.

The restructuring means that the number of members of SAS Group Management will decrease to seven people.

"I would like to thank Mats for making such a fantastic contribution during his 27 years with SAS. In particular, over the last few years, his expertise and dedication have proved invaluable to our work with change management and I wish him all the best now when he is leaving SAS to enter retirement," said Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO of SAS