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As of 1 July 2022, Christian Baltzer will be joining Falck and thereby replacing Tor Lønnum as Group CFO, who has accepted a new job outside Falck by the end of April. Christian Baltzer comes from a position as CEO in Codan Denmark and has previously been Group CFO of Danske Bank and Tryg. The 44-year-old Christian Baltzer will take over the position from Tor Lønnum as Group CFO and become a member of The Executive Management in Falck with responsibility for Finance, IT, and Legal. Thereby, he will play a pivotal role in the continued development of Falck as a globally integrated healthcare service provider. Full growth potential Christian Baltzer comes from a position as CEO of Codan Danmark, where he has helped prepare the divestment of Codan Forsikring's Danish business to Alm. Brand. He is an experienced top manager and has previously been Group CFO in Tryg from 2016-2018, as well as Group CFO in Danske Bank from 2018-2019. Both companies are listed on OMXC25 in Copenhagen. Chairman of the Board of Directors Niels Smedegaard comments on the election of Christian Baltzer: “With Christian, we have found a very strong and experienced CFO. With his broad managerial background, he is the right person to ensure a business-driven finance function and ensure that we realize Falck's full growth potential over the coming years.” Exciting development journey Danish Christian Baltzer holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Copenhagen Jakob Riis, CEO of Falck comments on the appointment: “I look forward to the collaboration with Christian and to welcome him as part of our management team. He brings solid experience in corporate finance and can thus support the continued development of both our finance function and of Falck as a global leader in integrated healthcare services. Through focused efforts, we have secured a strong financial foundation, and Falck is today firmly positioned for growth and further development.” Danish Christian Baltzer holds a degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Copenhagen and has worked for 23 years in the financial sector, including five years in the USA. He has in-depth experience in IT and digitization of business and brings a strong data-driven, strategic and analytical mindset to Falck. Christian Baltzer is looking forward to joining and becoming part of the exciting development journey that Falck is on. Strong financial turnaround “Falck is an iconic Danish company with a strongly founded purpose that has created fantastic results in recent years and transformed itself into a significant global player in health and rescue.” “Falck has been through a strong financial turnaround, and I look forward to becoming part of the management and helping to continue to develop Falck as an international healthcare company and unleash the great commercial potential of the company,” says Christian Baltzer. He will join Falck on 1 July, and until then, Maarit Pokkinen will act as Interim Group CFO.

Falck began delivering industrial fire and emergency services to Airbus, a foremost aircraft manufacturer. On various sites spread across France, Germany, and the United Kingdom firefighters from Falck will ensure rapid response, prevention, and maintenance of fire equipment at Airbus’ facilities. The contract is the biggest industrial fire services contract won by Falck, and a great step supporting the development of Falck’s global footprint. “We are pleased that we have been selected by Airbus with this critical task to ensure the safety of their employees and protect and secure business continuity. We very much look forward to our collaboration and to provide fire safety services across Airbus’ main production sites,” says VP Fire Services Dries Van Dongen. Scale, fire safety expertise, and a uniform approach Falck is the most extensive specialist provider of industrial fire rescue and emergency services in the world. Falck and Airbus will collaborate and share thoughts and ideas to improve processes and services across borders. “With our scale, Falck is perfectly suited to meet Airbus` requirements. With great teamwork across borders we will be able to take advantage of all the insights and learnings that we accumulate locally and put this knowledge into practice globally,” says VP Fire Services Dries Van Dongen.  

Falck (Falck A/S · Falck-Huset) has launched a new and innovative call out solution for its part-time firefighters in Denmark. Based on the results, Falck will explore if this solution can be valuable to further expand into other parts of the business, by identifying possible customer benefits, on a case-by-case basis, on how to increase safety levels, as well as improve efficiency. Falck Fire Alert With the Falck Fire Alert, the company offers an intelligent, cost-efficient and qualitative way of alerting part-time firefighters, in order to ensure that the right resources required at the scene are alerted and not the large groups that were previously called out. The innovative Falck Fire Alert notifies the part-time firefighters via the mobile data network The innovative Falck Fire Alert notifies the part-time firefighters via the mobile data network, rather than the radio network that has been in use since the mid-70s, thereby offering a quicker, more flexible and up-to-date solution. Furthermore, the solution has been built on a platform that makes it easy to adjust and develop in order to ensure a state-of-the-art dispatch system. Simple user interface and Geo-fencing feature The smart-pager only weighs 172 grams and is both drop- and waterproof. It has a simple user interface and includes Geo-fencing, which can determine whether a firefighter is within the required 5 minutes distance before they are called in. The smart pager is mainly developed by and for firefighters and introduces a change of culture in indicating the firefighter’s availability as a part-timer, which means that they are participating in the response when alerted. Enhanced engagement with firefighters This increases engagement and also empowers the firefighters to set their own availability, as the alerting algorithm considerably increases the chances that once alerted, a firefighter will indeed be part of an emergency response. Max Andersen, Falck’s Managing Director for Fire in Denmark, said “This new solution has been developed over the last 2 years, in a close collaboration between Fire Service Rota, TDC, Samsung and not to mention our own firefighters. It is a one-of-a-kind system, which ensures that we in Falck set the bar for future firefighting.”  Increased quality assurance An additional benefit for the customer is the faster alerting of special or scarce resources and vehicles For Falck’s customers, the new device means increased quality assurance, as it guarantees firefighters’ presence in an emergency response situation. It also means faster re-alerting, after the initial primary alert, with up to 30 seconds faster than with the current radio network. It also delivers clear insight into coverage availability, meaning it will show how active part-time firefighter coverage is during the days, evenings, weekends, holidays, etc. Furthermore, an additional benefit for the customer is the faster alerting of special or scarce resources and vehicles, as the new device gives continuous insight into resource availability, which means less re-alerting will be needed to get the right crew at the right time. Intelligent call out solution Dries Van Dongen, Falck’s Vice President (VP) of Fire Services, said “We are very proud to launch Falck Fire Alert in our Danish fire business. We have been involved in fighting fires and saving peoples’ lives in Denmark for over a hundred years, and we want to continue to do so for another hundred, therefore, we are investing in this solution for the future, enabling us to better service our customers, more easily connect and collaborate with our employees, as well as deliver a better business for Falck.” Falck is a first-mover in the market to adopt this intelligent solution and the smart pager will be rolled out to all 82 fire stations, under the Falck control center, within 2021, allowing more than 1400 firefighters to benefit from the new call-unit.