ChyronHego Appoints Rickard Ohrn As COO

(RTTNews) - ChyronHego Corp. (CHYR) said Tuesday that it has appointed Rickard Öhrn as chief operating officer.

Öhrn brings a 20-year career in executive-level business management to ChyronHego, where he is responsible for the company's global operations and business growth in EMEA. Öhrn is based in Stockholm and reports directly to ChyronHego President and CEO Johan Apel.

Prior to joining ChyronHego, Öhrn served as CEO of Research and Analysis of Media, a research and marketing firm for the media industry with close to 1,000 customers in 17 countries.

Prior to Research and Analysis of Media, Öhrn served as chief operating officer for Svenska Tracab AB, a ChyronHego partner at that time and the world leader in real-time digital player-tracking technology for arena-based sports. He also previously founded and served as CEO of two Swedish management consulting firms, Novocap Management and Borneo Management Consulting, and was CEO and founder of Active Time Investment Ltd., a Hong Kong-based investment firm that established the first online poker gaming site in Russia.