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Telelogic: Staffan Soderqvist New President of Telelogic's Market Division Asia/Pacific

Posted on: Monday, 9 January 2006, 09:00 CST

Telelogic (STO:TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align advanced systems and software development with business objectives, today announced that Staffan Soderqvist has been appointed President of the Market Division Asia/Pacific.

Soderqvist will be responsible for managing Telelogic's sales, marketing and professional services operations for the division and increasing the company's visibility in the Asia/Pacific marketplace. He will operate from Telelogic's Singapore office. Soderqvist will report directly to Scott Raskin, Chief Operating Officer for Telelogic.

Soderqvist has more than 20 years experience of working in this region. He was formerly the Director of Ericsson's mobile telephone operation in Japan and was responsible for the integration of Sony Ericsson in China. Soderqvist has also held several Executive positions within Ericsson in Asia. Additionally, he was the Sales Director at Microcell's mobile telephone operations in China. Soderqvist leaves the position of CFO and Deputy CEO of Pergo AB to take up the role of President of Market Division Asia/Pacific with Telelogic.

"I am very pleased with the recruitment of Staffan Soderqvist. He has extensive marketing- and sales experience from several key markets in Asia, e.g. Japan and China. He has an excellent experience and a proven record from previous senior positions and also from acquisitions and integrations processes, which is very important for us," said Anders Lidbeck, President and CEO of Telelogic. "We have high expectation that the appointment of Soderqvist will see Telelogic accelerate growth and continue to strengthen our presence in this dynamic market"

Staffan Soderqvist will take up his new position on February 1st 2006.

About Telelogic

Telelogic(R) is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems, and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

To better enable our customers' drive towards an automated lifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture and the use of standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, and customer needs management by participating in industry organizations such as INCOSE, OMG, The Open Group, AUTOSAR, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, and the TeleManagement Forum.

Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.

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Source: Business Wire

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