Tieto Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Appointments in Tieto leadership team

Tieto Corporation Stock Exchange Release 18 December 2009, 9.30 am EET

Sampo Salonen, MSc (Econ.), born 1954, has been appointed Executive Vice
President responsible for Tieto's Global Service Lines and a member of the
Leadership Team as of 1 January 2010.

Tieto's Global Service Lines organization with its 10 000 employees has an
important role in ensuring global-scale efficiency and quality. They are
responsible for corporate-wide delivery excellence, quality management and
competence development as well as global staffing of projects. Additionally, the
service lines are responsible for the development of horizontal offerings.

Sampo Salonen has an extensive, international experience in the IT and
manufacturing industries. He has been working at Tieto since 2005 as Programme
Director, Senior Vice President of Forest & Manufacturing business unit and as
the head of Tieto's Performance Improvement Programme in 2007-2008. From the
beginning of 2009, Salonen has been working as the Head of Operations in Tieto's
Global Service Line organization focusing on realizing the company's global
delivery model, processes and tools, quality management and site strategy.

Prior to joining Tieto, Salonen has held various executive management positions
with p&l responsibility for example in Paragon Oy, Åkerlund & Rausing Group AB,
Alma Media Oyj and ActiveInspire Limited.

Responsibility realignment in the Leadership Team
Kavilesh Gupta, the Head of Tieto's Global Services Lines, has been appointed
Executive Vice President, Customer and Market Operations (CMO) as of 1 January
2010. He will take over these responsibilities from Pekka Viljakainen, who will
continue as Executive Vice President, Head of Tieto International. Gupta and
Viljakainen will continue as members of the Leadership Team.

The aim of this responsibility realignment is to utilize management competencies
more broadly. This will help us Tieto place more focus on customer and sales
activities and to drive organic growth, sales excellence and innovation. It will
also enhance the development of Tieto International.

Kavilesh Gupta has a strong background in sales and delivery leadership in the
Nordic countries, the UK, Americas and Asia. In his new role, he will focus on
brand management, key customer account management, sales practices, strategic
bid management and innovation across Tieto.

Pekka Viljakainen has started the streamlining of Tieto International comprising
24 countries and 8 000 people during 2009. Development continues in 2010 with
the aim to prepare Tieto International for growth. In the next phase, building
leadership in all International countries and extensive dialogue with Tieto's
worldwide enterprise customers will require Pekka's full-time contribution."Sampo Salonen is an experienced executive who will add a lot of knowledge and
expertise to our Leadership Team. His experience includes leadership in
challenging business transformations, running M&A activities and major
restructuring programmes. During the past year under Kavilesh Gupta's
leadership, Tieto has taken significant steps in the development of our global
delivery model. Sampo will now continue this work. Customer and Market
Operations (CMO) is a key for our future growth and we will dedicate more
executive capacity to this activity by appointing Kavilesh Gupta to head this
unit," says President and CEO, Hannu Syrjälä.

For further information, please contact :
Kavilesh Gupta, tel. +358 2072 68008
Sampo Salonen, tel. +358 2072 68739
Pekka Viljakainen, tel. +358 2072 67337



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Tieto is an IT service company providing IT, R&D and consulting services. With
approximately 16 000 experts, we are among the leading IT service companies in
Northern Europe and the global leader in selected segments. We specialize in
areas where we have the deepest understanding of our customers' businesses and
needs. Our superior customer centricity and Nordic expertise set us apart from
our competitors.
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