Helsinki, Finland, 2011-02-16 14:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
HONKARAKENNE OYJ Stock Exchange Release 16 February 2011 at 3:00 pm
PROPOSAL ON BOARD MEMBERS TO HONKARAKENNE GENERAL MEETING
The shareholders who have over 50% of the votes carried by the company’s shares have decided to propose to the Honkarakenne Oyj Annual General Meeting that the number of Board Members, on the Board to be elected, be confirmed to be seven, and that of the members currently on the Board Lasse Kurkilahti, Mauri Saarelainen, Pirjo Ruuska, Mauri Niemi and Marko Saarelainen be re-elected. The curriculum vitaes of the Board Members who have been proposed for re-election are available on the company’s website at www.honka.com/corporate/invest/en_GB/board/.
Of the current Board Members, Tomi Laamanen has announced that he will not be available for election to the Board for the next term.
The shareholders who have over 50% of the votes carried by the company’s shares propose that new Board Members are Teijo Pankko and Anders Adlercreutz.
The expertise of the proposed new Board Members will strengthen the implementation and export of Honkarakenne’s premium and luxury strategy. With an extensive experience in finance and financing, Teijo Pankko will also greatly contribute to the company’s Russian operations. Russia is a significant premium and luxury product market for Honkarakenne. For his part, Anders Adlercreutz will consolidate, in particular, the company’s architecture and design competence.
Attached are the curriculum vitaes of Teijo Pankko and Anders Adlercreutz.
HONKARAKENNE OYJ
Lasse Kurkilahti
Chairman of the Board
Further information: Lasse Kurkilahti, tel. +358 500 628 016, lasse.kurkilahti@gmail.com.
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Stock Exchange OMX Helsinki
Key media
Financial Supervisory Authority
Teijo Pankko, born 1964
2006-2010 Chief Financial Officer, Altimo, the telecom holding company of the Alfa
Group Consortium. Member of the Board, OAO Megafon
2005- Chief Financial Officer, Financial Corporation Uralsib
2002-2005 Chief Financial Officer, Alfa-Bank
1998-2002 Head of Treasury, Alfa-Bank
1997-1998 Chief Financial Officer, Alfa-Capital, Alfa Group (Moscow, Russia)
1995-1997 Financial Director, Lemminkainen LTD, Moscow, Russia
1989-1995 Financial Director, NHM-Commodities, Finland
1988-1989 Deputy Chief of Treasury, Rauma Repola Oy
Anders Adlercreutz, born 1970
2000- Architect, Partner, A-Konsultit
1997-2000 Architect, SARC Architects
