{"id":4261,"date":"2016-04-25T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2016-04-25T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:04:42","slug":"new-board-elected-by-speedgroup-share-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/2016\/04\/25\/new-board-elected-by-speedgroup-share-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"New Board elected by Speedgroup share holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three new persons were voted to be part of the board at the Annual shareholders meeting for Speedgroup Aktiebolag, held in Stockholm on April 23rd.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The shareholders present in person or represented by proxy decided to reelect<\/p>\n<p>Pelle Lindel\u00f6w, Sweden<br \/>\nKjell Pettersson, Sweden<br \/>\nRoger Lyr\u00e9n, Sweden<br \/>\nAnders Charley Karling, Sweden<\/p>\n<p><strong>A majority of shareholders also expressed support for\u00a0Lin Granlund, Norway and\u00a0Emelie Carlsw\u00e4rd, Sweden to be elected as new board members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Deputy\u00a0board members, the meeting reelected\u00a0Dick Koster, the Netherlands and\u00a0Mikael K\u00e5gered, Sweden.<br \/>\nMats Eriksson, Borl\u00e4nge Sweden who was previously a board member, was elected deputy\u00a0board member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One new deputy board member was elected; Simo Patoharju from Finland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mandate period for the board is approximately one year, the next Annual Shareholders meeting is to be held at the latest in June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Six regular board meetings per year are to be held and the chairman, currently Pelle Lindel\u00f6w, is to be decided\u00a0at the first board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5sa Kinnemar is the CEO since January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The three new representatives on the Speedgroup Board:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1367\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-image-1367 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Emelie-Carlsw\u00e4rd-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Emelie Carlsw\u00e4rd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emelie Carlsw\u00e4rd, new board member<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1369\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Lin-Granlund.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1369\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lin-Granlund-150x150.png\" alt=\"Lin Granlund, new board member\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lin Granlund, new board member<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1370\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/Simo-Patoharju.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1370\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1370\" class=\"wp-image-1370 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Simo-Patoharju-150x150.png\" alt=\"Simo Patoharju, new deputy\/substitute board member \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simo Patoharju, new deputy board member<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Speedgroup administer the <strong>FIA European Drag Racing Championship<\/strong> and operate the <strong>EDRS European Drag Racing Series, EDRS Pro Nordic Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship<\/strong> and\u00a0 the Swedish Drag Racing championship for cars, <strong>Dragracing SM<\/strong>. Speedgroup interact with teams, track operators and event organizers, sanctioning bodies, media, corporate partners and fans on an all year round basis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedgroup.eu\">www.speedgroup.eu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three new persons were voted to be part of the board at the Annual shareholders meeting for Speedgroup Aktiebolag, held in Stockholm on April 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4330,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dragracingeurope.eu\/edrspro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}