New EVP for IT Operations at EDB

New EVP for IT Operations at EDB

(Oslo, 19 April 2007) EDB Business Partner has appointed Lars Bjertnæs as Executive Vice President responsible for the IT Operations business area. Bjertnæs is 43 years of age and is currently an adviser in the IT sector.

Bjertnæs is an engineering graduate of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and has extensive experience of the IT area. His management experience includes working on the Norwegian Armed Forces 'Golf' project, and he is currently working as the main project leader for the Ergo Group's delivery project in connection with the City of Oslo's major outsourcing of its IT services.

Bjertnæs will take up this appointment at a time to be agreed. He succeeds Ole Urdahl, who will work with major customer-related projects in order to strengthen EDB's organic growth.

Any questions may be addressed to:

Geir Remman, EVP - Corporate Communications. Tel: +47 970 55 017

About EDB

EDB Business Partner is a leading stock exchange listed IT group for the Nordic region. The group has 3,800 employees, and reported turnover of NOK 5.8 billion in 2006. EDB delivers solutions that cover the entire range of business critical IT services from application services and industry-specific solutions through to IT operating services and network solutions. EDB is committed to being a close and attentive IT partner that helps its customers operate more efficiently and achieve their business objectives. EDB Business Partner is listed on Oslo Børs with the ticker code: EDBASA.

For further information see www.edb.com.