AMANDA CAPITAL PLC STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT 9 MAY 2007 APPOINTMENTS IN AMANDA CAPITAL Ms. Piia Latvala (32), M.Sc.(Econ) has been appointed Investor Relations Director in Amanda Capital Plc from June 5th 2007. Previously Ms. Latvala has worked as portfolio manager in OKO Asset Management being responsible for the external fund manager selection and the management of one equity fund. Prior to that she worked as stock broker in Opstock Ltd. In addition to Amanda Capital Plc's investor relations Ms. Latvala will devote her time in fund raising for Amanda's private equity funds. Mr. Marko Hovi (36), M.Sc. (Econ) has been appointed Investment Director in Amanda Capital Plc from June 6th 2007. Mr. Hovi started to work in capital markets in 1994 and has since worked in several senior positions for Handelsbanken Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, Evli Plc. and Postipankki. Mr. Hovi joins Amanda from position of Head Of Equity Cash Trading in Handelsbanken Capital Markets. AMANDA CAPITAL PLC Petteri Änkilä CEO For more information: CEO Petteri Änkilä tel. +358 9 6829 6011 Distribution: Helsinki Stock Exchange, www.amandacapital.fi Amanda Capital Group is a private equity investment company. Its parent company is the first publicly listed private equity fund-of-funds in Scandinavia. The company has investments in 25 different private equity funds and thereby in over 300 unquoted companies, mainly located in Europe. Amanda is one of Finland's largest private equity fund investment management companies. In addition to its own investments, it manages several private equity fund portfolios under consultancy agreements. Amanda is also a founding general partner in five private equity funds, which have several institutional investors. Amanda Group currently has more than EUR 900 million of assets under management (original investment commitments more than EUR 1.3 billion) and has made investments in more than 100 private equity funds in Europe, the United States, Asia and Russia.