Konecranes Plc: Board of Directors' organizing meeting

KONECRANES PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE March 29, 2023 at 5:30 pm EEST

 

Konecranes Plc: Board of Directors' organizing meeting

 

Konecranes' Board of Directors elected in today's Annual General Meeting has held its first meeting.

 

Christoph Vitzthum was elected as Chair of the Board and Pasi Laine was elected as Vice Chair of the Board in the Annual General Meeting.

 

The Board of Directors decided to continue with an Audit Committee and a Human Resources Committee.

 

Ulf Liljedahl was elected Chair of the Audit Committee, and Niko Mokkila, Gun Nilsson and Päivi Rekonen as Committee members. Christoph Vitzthum was elected Chair of the Human Resources Committee, and Pauli Anttila, Pasi Laine and Helene Svahn as Committee members.

 

All Board members with the exception of Sami Piittisjärvi are deemed to be independent of the Company and all Board members with the exception of Niko Mokkila and Pauli Anttila are deemed to be independent of the Company's significant shareholders.

 

Sami Piittisjärvi is deemed not to be independent of the Company due to his current position as an employee of Konecranes. Niko Mokkila is deemed not to be independent of a significant shareholder of the Company based on his current position as Managing Director at Hartwall Capital Oy Ab. Pauli Anttila is deemed not to be independent of a significant shareholder of the Company based on his current position as Investment Director and Member of the Management Team at Solidium Oy.

 

 

KONECRANES PLC

Kiira Fröberg

Vice President, Investor Relations

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Kiira Fröberg,

Vice President, Investor Relations,

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Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses, serving a broad range of customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes provides productivity enhancing lifting solutions as well as services for lifting equipment of all makes. In 2022, Group sales totaled EUR 3.4 billion. The Group has approximately 16,500 employees in around 50 countries. Konecranes shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki (symbol: KCR).

 

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