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Aktia plc: Aktia's Board of Supervisors elected Mr. Marcus H. Borgström as new Board Member

Aktia plc Stock Exchange Release 8.12.2008 at 7.30 p.m.

In its meeting on 8 December 2008, Aktia Plc's Board of Supervisors
re-elected all present members of the Board for the year 2009. In
addition, Mr. Marcus H. Borgström was elected new Member of the
Board.

Mr. Marcus H. Borgström, M.Sc. (Agruculture & Forestry), Honorary
Counsellor, born1946, farms Östersundom estate in Sipoo. He has
serveral positions of trust in different sectors of business life,
mainly in the food industry. He is Chairman of the Board of Veritas
Mutual Non-Life Insurance Company which will be merged with Aktia on
1 January 2009. Mr. Borgström is Chairman of the Board of Pellervo
Confederation of Finnish Cooperatives and Chairman of the Board of
Supervisors of Varuboden. In 2007, Mr. Borgström was elected Chairman
of the Board of the Year in Finland in his position as Chairman of
the Board of HK Scan Plc.

Mr. Kaj-Gustaf Bergh will continue as Chairman of the Board of Aktia,
and Mr. Dag Wallgren as Vice Chairman

The Members of Aktia's Board of Directors for the term 1 January - 31
December 2009 are:
Chairman Kaj-Gustaf Bergh, LL.M., M. Sc. (Econ.)
Vice Chairman Dag Wallgren, M. Sc. (Econ)
Marcus H. Borgström, M. Sc. (Agr. & For.), Honorary Counsellor
Hans Frantz, Lic. Pol.
Lars-Olof Hammarén, B. Sc. (Eng.)
Lars-Erik Kvist, M. Sc. (Econ.)
Kjell Sundström, M. Sc. (Econ)
Marina Vahtola, M. Sc. (Econ)
Nina Wilkman, Master of Laws, Attorney


AKTIA PLC

For more detail, please contact:
Henry Wiklund, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, tel. +358 40
5861 330


From:
Outi Fagerlund
tel. +358 10 247 6294
outi.fagerlund@aktia.fi

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