Bjørn Wiggen has been appointed President and CEO of Sapa

Bjørn Wiggen has a MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH). Mr Wiggen has extensive experience in international industry. From 1996 to 1998 he was CEO of Pripps Bryggerier in Sweden, after which he held key positions in Carlsberg Breweries from 2001 to 2005, which included responsibility for running and developing the Group’s breweries in Central and Eastern Europe. Mr Wiggen was head of Orkla Media/Mecom Europe from 2005 to 2007, and from 2008 Managing Director of Elkem, which is also part of the Orkla Group.

“I am really looking forward to starting work at Sapa. My role as member of Sapa’s Board of Directors in the past year has enabled me to get to know this exciting company with a very strong, competent organisation. The strategy that Sapa has laid out in the past few years entailing the further development of Profiles, Building System and Heat Transfer on the basis of a decentralised structure remains unchanged. I see a number of proactive opportunities for further developing Sapa in the direction of customer-focused solutions, and for expanding through acquisitions. However, our main concern in the short term is to deal with the extremely challenging market situation,” says Bjørn Wiggen.