Dovre Group Oyj - Company Announcement

Amendment to the shareholders’ proposal to the Annual General Meeting of Dovre Group Plc on March 17, 2016, concerning the election of the members of the Board Directors

Espoo, Finland, 2016-03-08 08:15 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 
Dovre Group Plc                 Stock Exchange Bulletin                   
March 8, 2016 at 9:15 a.m. 

Amendment to the shareholders’ proposal to the Annual General Meeting of Dovre
Group Plc on March 17, 2016, concerning the election of the members of the
Board Directors 

The notice of the Annual General Meeting of Dovre Group Plc, to be held on
March 17, 2016, was published on February 18, 2016. The notice included a
shareholders’ proposal regarding the election of the members of the Board of
Directors. In accordance with the proposal, the shareholders representing over
55% of the total shares in the company proposed Rainer Häggblom and Ilari
Koskelo, both current members of the Board, to be reappointed as members of the
Board, and Christian Bull Eriksson and John Wiseman to be appointed as new
members of the Board. 

According to a notification received from the shareholders, John Wiseman has
subsequently announced that he is unable to stand as a candidate for the Board.
Therefore, the shareholders representing over 55% of the total shares in the
company have notified the company that they wish to amend their original
proposal and propose Louis Harrewijn to be appointed as a new member of the
Board instead of John Wiseman. 

Louis Harrewijn (b. 1965, Dutch citizen) has served as Regional Manager for
Asia Pacific at Mentor IMC Ltd. since 2015. Harrewijn has previously held a
number of senior managerial positions in Brunel International N.V., Manpower
Inc., and Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), and has worked, for example,
as Regional Director for Middle East and India and as Regional Director for
Southeast Asia at Brunel International, as General Manager in the Philippines
at Manpower, and as Division Director in both Thailand and the Philippines at
SGS. Harrewijn holds a B. Sc. in technical business administration. 

The new proposed members’, Christian Bull Eriksson’s and Louis Harrewijn’s,
CV’s are available on Dovre Group’s investor pages at www.dovregroup.com ->
Investors. 

The amended notice of the Annual General Meeting, which in all other respects
remains the same as the notice released on February 18, 2016, is attached in
full to this stock exchange bulletin. 

Dovre Group Plc
Patrick von Essen, CEO
Heidi Karlsson, CFO
tel. +358 (0)20 436 2000
www.dovregroup.com

Dovre Group is a global provider of project management services. Dovre Group
has two business areas: Project Personnel and Consulting. Dovre Group has
offices in Norway, Canada, the US, Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, Russia, and
Finland, and employs around 700 people worldwide. Dovre Group is listed on the
Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: DOV1V). Company web site www.dovregroup.com. 

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Attachments:

2016 Notice of the AGM.pdf