Stockholm, May 21 – The Nomination Committee of Elekta AB (publ) proposes that the 2013 Annual General Meeting elects Laurent Leksell as the new Chairman of the Board. Akbar Seddigh, who has been Chairman of the Board since 1999 and a Board member since 1998, has declined re-election. Laurent Leksell, who is the company’s largest shareholder, has been a Board member since 1972 and was the company’s President and CEO from 1972 to 2005.