Suominen’s Shareholders’ Nomination Board has proposed to the Annual General Meeting 2025 that the number of board members will be increased from six to seven. Under this plan, Andreas Ahlström, Björn Borgman, Charles Héaulmé, Nina Linander and Laura Remes would be re-elected as members of the board of directors and Gail Ciccione and Maija Joutsenkoski would be elected as new members of the board.

Out of the current Board members, Aaron Barsness, has informed that he is not available for re-election to the Board of Directors.

Gail Ciccione is currently the business owner of Trinity Operations Partner, LLC. Prior to that, she has held a number of executive positions at Laborie Medical Technologies, Becton Dickinson and Kimberly-Clark. Maija Joutsenkoski, Finnish citizen) currently works as an Investment Director at A. Ahlström Corporation. Prior to that, she has held a number of executive and other positions at CapMan Buyout, UPM, Nordic Capital and Goldman Sachs.

All candidates have given their consent to the election.

The Nomination Board proposed hat Charles Héaulmé would be re-elected as the chair of the board of directors.

The Nomination Board proposes that the remuneration of the Board of Directors remains unchanged and would be as follows: the Chair would be paid an annual fee of €74,000, the deputy chair an annual fee of €45,000 and other Board members an annual fee of €35,000. The Nomination Board also proposes that the additional fee paid to the Chair of the Audit Committee would remain unchanged and be €10,000.