People - 29/11/06

Ericsson plans to cut about 400 jobs in Sweden in administrative and sales workforce. In parallel, Ericsson has announced its key team of 12 executives memebers: Carl-Henric Svanberg as CEO, Karl-Henrik Sundstroem as CFO, Hakan Eriksson as CTO, Kurt Jofs and Björn Olsson managing the Networks division; Hans Vestberg as head of Global Services; Jan Wäreby as head of the Multimedia division; Joakim Westh that will held the Strategy and Operational Excellence rôle; Marita Hellberg as HR; Bert Nordberg as Sales & Marketing; Henry Stenson as Communications and Carl Olof Blomqvist as legal affairs.

Peter Meissner has been appointed as COO of The Next Generation Mobile Network, a mobile industry platform founded between China Mobile, KPN, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, and Vodafone.

Haakan Zadler, Tele2' s CFO, leaved unexpectedly the company at the end of last week.