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Sweden-based contractor and developer Skanska announced Friday that its executive vice president and the general counsel has resigned.
Caroline Fellenius Omnell has been with Skanska for eight years, according to the statement, and has been a member of the company’s group leadership team since 2017.
“I want to thank Caroline for her commitment, strategic vision and development of the legal function across the group. Her expert legal guidance has been vital to our continued success in navigating complex market conditions and has contributed strongly to generating value for the company,” Anders. Danielsson, president and CEO of Skanska, said in the statement: “I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”
Skanska declined to give a reason for Omnell’s departure.
Ulrika Wester, Skanska’s vice president of ethics and compliance, assumed the role of acting executive vice president and general counsel on Friday, and will remain until Skanska has named a permanent replacement.
This is not the first change in Skanska’s leadership this year.
In April, the company announced CFO Magnus Persson I would resign Unlike Omnell, Persson stayed on while the company searched for a successor. Persson, an 18-year veteran of the company, joins Evroc, a Stockholm-based information and technology company building what it says will be Europe’s first secure, sovereign and sustainable hyperscale cloud.
Jonas Rickberg will take over as CFO on January 31, the company announced in August. Rickberg is currently the CFO and Executive Vice President of Scania Group, a heavy commercial vehicle subsidiary of German manufacturer Volkswagen in Södertälje, Sweden. Before his 20 years at Scania, Rickberg spent five years at Volvo.
