New SM board member proposed

Wenche Rolfsen will be put forward by the nominating committee of Swedish Match for election as a new member of the company’s board. The election will take place during the annual general meeting on April 25.

Rolfsen is said to have broad experience in the development, marketing and sales of health care and consumer products.

She is currently the chairman of the boards of ApreaAB, a Swedish biotech company, and of Index Pharmaceuticals, a Swedish pharmaceutical company; vice chairman of Moberg Derma, a Swedish pharmaceutical company; and a board member of Stiftelsen Industrifonden, among other companies.

Rolfsen holds a Master of Science in Pharmacy and a Ph.D in pharmacology (1980) from the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Uppsala University. For a number of years she held an adjunct professorship in Pharmacology at the same university.