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Mika Joukio appointed Metsä Board’s CEO

Metsä Board Corporation Stock Exchange Release 10 June 2014 at 16.40 pm EEST

Metsä Board Corporation's Board of Directors has appointed M.Sc. (Tech.), MBA
Mika Joukio (49) as the company's new CEO. Joukio will start in the position on
1 December 2014 at the latest. 

Joukio joins Metsä Board from Metsä Tissue Corporation, part of Metsä Group,
where he has been the CEO since 2012. Prior to Metsä Tissue, Joukio worked as
the head of Metsä Board's paperboard business during 2006-2011. He has held
various management positions in the company and its predecessors Metsä-Serla
Corporation and M-real Corporation since 1990. 

“Mika Joukio has strong earlier experience in Metsä Board and in paperboard as
well as consumer product industries. He has a good track record of successful
business management in Metsä Tissue. He has an excellent starting point to
continuing profitable growth of Metsä Board”, says Kari Jordan, Chairman of the
Board of Directors. 

Metsä Board's current CEO Mikko Helander will move to another company on 1
December 2014 at the latest. 

Mika Joukio's essential work history can be found at
www.metsaboard.com/investors/corporategovernance/CEOandothermanagement/corporate
managementteam/Pages/Mika-Joukio.aspx. 

Link to photos: http://databank.metsagroup.com/?cart=3196-jhjghdgkeg&l=FI



METSÄ BOARD CORPORATION

Further information:
Kari Jordan, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Call requests to Reeta
Kaukiainen, tel. +358 10 465 4541