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2009-11-11 08:00:00 CET 2009-11-11 08:00:04 CET REGULATED INFORMATION Finnair Oyj - Company AnnouncementMIKA VEHVILÄINEN TO BE FINNAIR'S NEW PRESIDENT & CEOFINNAIR PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 11 NOVEMBER 2009 09.00 The Board of Directors of Finnair Plc has appointed Mika Vehviläinen M.Sc.(Econ.), 48, as Finnair's President and CEO as of 1 February 2010. Vehviläinen will join Finnair on 5 January 2010. Since 1991 Vehviläinen has been employed by Nokia and is currently Chief Operating Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks. He has strong experience of sales and marketing and of strategic management and business development in Asia, North America and Europe. “Finnair is recognised as a quality airline. It has an effective strategy, which has been proven in practice, and expert personnel. Finnair has all that it takes to emerge from the hard times as a winner, but this will require goal-directed development of the business practices. It will be necessary to improve competitiveness, and management and personnel will have to cooperate closely in this task,” says Vehviläinen. Finnair's current President & CEO Jukka Hienonen will leave his post at the end of January 2010. “During his period as President & CEO, Jukka Hienonen made significant changes to improve Finnair's competitiveness and he brought a new dynamic to the management of the company. For this excellent work he deserves thanks. In accepting the relay baton from Hienonen, Mika Vehviläinen will receive a flying start to his efforts. Finnair's success will not come for free; hard work will be needed to achieve it and Vehviläinen is no stranger to this,” says Chairman of Finnair Plc's Board of Directors Christoffer Taxell. INVITATION TO MEDIA CONFERENCE A media conference will be held on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 11 am, at Lentäjäntie 3, Vantaa (registration at the reception). The chairman of the Board, Christoffer Taxell and Mika Vehviläinen will be present. Finnair Plc Communications |
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