Metsä Board Oyj - Company Announcement

Jussi Noponen appointed CFO for Metsä Board Corporation

Metsä Board Corporation Stock exchange release 5 August 2016 at 8.30 EET

Jussi Noponen has been appointed CFO and member of the Executive Management
Team of Metsä Board Corporation effective as of 1 January 2017 at the latest.
Noponen holds a Master of Science degree in Technology and currently serves as
Senior Vice President, Group Finance of Metsä Group. He has worked within Metsä
Group in various financial expert and management positions since 2000, during
2003–2008 in Metsä Board. In his new position, Noponen will report to the CEO
Mika Joukio. 

Markus Holm, Metsä Board’s current CFO, will leave the company to assume the
position of CFO and COO of Sanoma Corporation. 

“I would like to thank Markus for his contribution to Metsä Board’s
transformational process into a paperboard company and I wish him success in
his new position. At the same time, I welcome Jussi back to Metsä Board. His
experience and solid financial expertise make him an excellent addition to our
team,” says Mika Joukio, CEO of Metsä Board. 



METSÄ BOARD CORPORATION



More information:

Mika Joukio, CEO, tel. +358 (0)10 465 4300
Katri Sundström, Head of Investor Relations, tel. +358 (0)400 976333


www.metsaboard.com



Metsä Board is a leading European producer of folding boxboards and white
linerboards made from fresh forest fibres. Its lightweight paperboards are
developed as the perfect fit for consumer goods, retail-ready and food service
packaging. The pure fresh forest fibres Metsä Board uses are a renewable
resource, traceable to origin in northern forests. 

The global sales network of Metsä Board supports customers worldwide, including
brand owners, converters and merchants. In 2015, the company’s sales totalled
EUR 2.0 billion, and it has approximately 2,600 employees. Metsä Board, part of
Metsä Group, is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.