SSH Communications Security Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

SSH APPOINTS NEW CEO AND ANNOUNCES NEW EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM

MS. KAISA OLKKONEN THE NEW CEO OF SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY CORPORATION

Helsinki, Finland, 2016-12-30 09:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 

The Board of Directors of SSH Communications Security have appointed Kaisa
Olkkonen as the new Chief Executive Officer of the company. She will start on
January 1, 2017. 

Ms. Olkkonen has more than twenty-five years of experience in leadership roles
in the digital services and telecommunications sectors. Her responsibilities
have covered a broad range of international privacy and data protection
matters, intellectual property, legal, risk management and business development
matters, and global regulatory and interest representation work. She has
extensive experience in building and leading diverse international teams
through change and transition. Ms. Olkkonen has served as the Chairman of the
Board of Directors of SSH since April 2016 and has sent in her resignation from
that role yesterday. 

SSH's founder Tatu Ylönen continues to work for the company full time as SSH
Fellow. He will be based in Boston, US, concentrating on new innovations and
research in access management, awareness creation about the problems the
company solves and other strategic initiatives. Mr. Ylönen will also continue
as a member of the Board of Directors of SSH. 

“We have recently focused our operations and renewed our organization structure
to better correspond to our customers´ accelerating digital and cloud
transformation. I am very pleased to bring Kaisa to lead the executive team to
further improve our execution capability and make the company even more
competitive, enabling us to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the
changing and growing markets. Kaisa will bring to us her strong values based
leadership capability and open communication approach, helping the company to
take the step to the next level of operational excellence”. 

“I'm very excited about assuming an operational role in SSH after working with
the SSH team as the chairman for the past year. The market is opening for us
and together with the whole SSH team we have a great opportunity to create
value by helping customers to respond to the ever-increasing need of Internet
security”, says Olkkonen. 

SSH announces new Executive Management team

Executive management team of SSH Communications Security is:

  -- Kaisa Olkkonen, Chief Executive Officer
  -- Tatu Ylönen, Founder, SSH Fellow
  -- Helena Kukkonen, Chief Financial Officer
  -- Markku Rossi, Chief Technology Officer, 
  -- Chris Riley, USA Operations and Global Marketing
  -- Kalle Jääskeläinen, Platform Management
  -- Rami Raulas, Sales, EMEA and APAC
  -- Jussi Mononen, Business Development



SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY CORPORATION

Board of Directors

For further information, please contact:
Kaisa Olkkonen, CEO, tel. +358 40 579 5216
Helena Kukkonen, CFO, tel. +358 40 835 3440


Distribution:
NASDAQ Helsinki Ltd.
Major media
www.ssh.com


About SSH Communications Security Oyj

SSH Communications Security is a leading provider of enterprise cybersecurity
solutions that monitor, control, and automate trusted access to critical data.
The company’s long track record of innovation includes Secure Shell (SSH) – one
of the world’s most widely used network security protocols. Customers worldwide
trust our flagship Universal SSH Key Manager® and other solutions to manage
access, while greatly reducing costs and compliance risks. The Company sells
direct through offices in North America, Europe and Asia and through a global
network of certified partners. The company’s shares (SSH1V) are quoted on the
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. For more information, visit www.ssh.com.