Seabased Gets New President and CEO

Mats Leijon has taken over roles of Managing Director of Seabased Industry AB and President and CEO of the Seabased Group, thereby succeeding Billy Johansson. At the same time, Mats has also resigned as Chairman of the Board of both companies, being succeeded in these roles by Hans Bernhoff.

Billy Johansson, who this summer turned 67, has been Managing Director of Seabased Industry AB most of the time since its inception and President and CEO of the Seabased Group since 2005. Billy has asked to be relieved of his duties also on the Board of Seabased AB, but he will assist the Board and the President also onwards.

Billy has over the years developed Seabased from a small organization to what is today a company with more than 60 employees and its own manufacturing facilities in Lysekil, and he has been one among very few who have successfully built new Swedish industry in the 21st century, said Mats Leijon.

Mats Leijon has most recently held a professorship in Applied Physics at Uppsala University, as well as being Dean of Engineering there. However, Mats also has a background from the industry and held during some 13 years a variety of senior positions within ABB. Mats has also been Chairman of the Board of Seabased since the company was formed in 2001.

Mr Leijon said: “It will be interesting and different, customer interest in wave power in general and in particular in the Seabased system has during the last year increased significantly from many parts of the world. There have been a lot of trips for me and I don’t think I have travelled as much as this since I left ABB.” 

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