ASSA ABLOY appoints New CFO

Carolina Dybeck Happe has been appointed CFO and executive vice president of the ASSA ABLOY Group effective March 1, 2012. She succeeds Tomas Eliasson who, as has been announced earlier, will take up a position outside the company.

Dybeck Happe is currently CFO of Trelleborg, a global industrial group listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Before that, she spent nine years with ASSA ABLOY, the last four years as CFO of the EMEA division located in London, and before that, as CFO of market region Central Europe, located in Berlin. She was born in 1972 and holds a masters degree in finance.

“I am very pleased that Carolina will join ASSA ABLOY. Her experience from having worked in different countries, a solid finance background and an extensive knowledge about our company make an excellent fit for her new role,” said Johan Molin, president and CEO of ASSA ABLOY.