SAMPO PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 15 April 2008 at 3:44 pm CHANGES PLANNED IN SAMPO GROUP'S ADMINISTRATION IN 2009 Georg Ehrnrooth (67), Chairman of the Board, has announced that he will not stand as candidate for Sampo's Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting of 2009. Ehrnrooth, who has been a member of Sampo's Board of Directors since 1992 and Chairman of the Board since 2006, will thereby leave Sampo's Board of Directors at the end of the Annual General Meeting of 2009. In order to ensure continuity in the management of Sampo Group, the Board's Nomination and Compensation Committee will propose to the Annual General Meeting in the spring of 2009, having consulted the major shareholders, that Björn Wahlroos be re-elected to Sampo's Board of Directors and that he would be elected Chairman of the Board. Wahlroos would then leave his position as Group CEO and President of Sampo plc at the end of the Annual General Meeting of 2009. According to the plan, Kari Stadigh will be nominated as the new CEO and President of Sampo Group. Björn Wahlroos has been Group CEO and President of Sampo Group as well as a member of Sampo's Board of Directors since 2001. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Swedish School of Economics in Helsinki. Wahlroos is Chairman of the Board of UPM-Kymmene Corporation and a member of the board of Nordea Bank AB (publ.). Wahlroos is also the largest private shareholder of Sampo plc with an ownership of more than two per cent. Kari Stadigh has worked for Sampo Group since 1998 and was nominated Group Deputy CEO in 2001. Stadigh has been Chairman of the Board of Sampo Life and Kaleva Mutual Insurance Company since 2001 and Chairman of the Board of If P&C Insurance since 2002. SAMPO PLC Jarmo Salonen Head of Investor Relations and Group Communications Tel. +358 10 516 0030 DISTRIBUTION: OMX Nordic Exchange Helsinki The principal media Financial Supervision Insurance Supervisory Authority www.sampo.com