DnB NOR Bank ASA
Karin Bing Orgland new group executive vice president in DnB NOR

DnB NOR Bank ASA / 

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DnB NOR is establishing a new business area in Norway for retail customers and
large parts of the corporate market segment in Norwegian regions. Karin Bing
Orgland has been appointed group executive vice president and head of the new
business area. 
Karin Bing Orgland (49) leaves her position as head of Regional Division East
in Corporate Banking and Payment Services (CBP) in DnB NOR. She has extensive
experience from a number of specialist and managerial positions in product and
customer units in the Group. 

The new business area will be operative from 1 July 2009. Group chief executive
Rune Bjerke emphasises that Karin Bing Orgland has been a central figure in the
planning of the new business area. 

'Given her long experience and wide range of expertise, she is tailor-made for
the task. Karin Bing Orgland is a natural choice now that we are changing our
Norwegian organisation so that we can present our customers with a more
homogeneous and integrated DnB NOR,' says Bjerke. 

Karin Bing Orgland has studied at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA and
has a business degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration in Bergen. She owns 2 000 shares in DnB NOR. 

Group executive vice president Leif Teksum will continue to head DnB NOR's
large corporate operations, comprising Shipping, Offshore and Logistics, Nordic
Corporate, International Corporate and Institutions and the bank's
international operations. 

News Source: NASDAQ OMX

24.04.2009  Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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