AMANDA CAPITAL PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE August 21, 2008 AMANDA CAPITAL PLC STRENGHTENS IT'S LEADERSHIP Amanda Capital Plc has appointed Ilkka Rantanen as a Director, Business Development. Currently Ilkka Rantanen works as an investment professional for Credit Suisse Private Equity Fund, DLJ Merchant Banking Partners in London. He will take his position within Amanda Capital later this autumn. AMANDA CAPITAL PLC Additional Information: Petter Hoffström, Acting CEO (050) 549 5507 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.