AMANDA CAPITAL PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE August 20, 2008 AMANDA CAPITAL PLC'S CEO Amanda Capital Plc and CEO Petteri Änkilä have jointly agreed that Petteri Änkilä's employment relationship with Amanda Capital ends on August 29th 2008. From that date on Chief Financial Officer Petter Hoffström will be the acting CEO of Amanda Capital Plc. AMANDA CAPITAL PLC Additional Information: Chairman of the board Esa Karppinen, tel. +358 50 2089 CEO Petteri Änkilä, tel. +358 9 6829 6011 Distribution: OMX Nordic Exchange in Helsinki, www.amandacapital.fi The Amanda Group is a private equity management company. Its parent company is the first publicly listed private equity fund of funds in Scandinavia. Amanda has investments in 24 private equity funds and in four funds of funds under Amanda's own management. Amanda Group is one of Finland's largest management companies of private equity fund investments. It manages several private equity fund portfolios under consultancy agreements and six private equity funds of funds with several domestic and international institutions as investors. Amanda Group currently has EUR 2.4 billion of assets under management (original investment commitments) with which it has made investments in more than 100 private equity funds in Europe, the US, Asia, and Russia.