Change in the composition of Neste's Shareholders' Nomination Board

Neste Corporation, Stock Exchange Release, 22 December 2022 at 5 p.m. (EET)

The Chair of the Shareholders' Nomination Board of Neste Corporation changes. Director General Kimmo Viertola of the Ownership Steering Department in the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland has been the Chair until 22 December 2022 and as of 23 December 2022, the Chair will be Senior Ministerial Adviser, Financial Affairs Maija Strandberg of the Ownership Steering Department in the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland. In line with the stock exchange release published on 6 September 2022, the other members of the Shareholders’ Nomination Board are: Timo Sallinen, Senior Vice President, Investments of Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company; President and CEO Jouko Pölönen of Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company and Matti Kähkönen, the Chair of Neste's Board of Directors.

The members of the Nomination Board are elected annually and their term of office ends when new members have been elected to replace them. The largest shareholders entitled to elect members to the Nomination Board are determined annually on the basis of the registered holdings as of the first weekday in September in accordance with the detailed rules included in the Charter for the Nomination Board.

The Shareholders’ Nomination Board will forward its proposals for the 2023 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to the Board of Directors by 31 January 2023.

Neste Corporation

Susanna Sieppi
Vice President, Communications

Further information: Senior Ministerial Adviser, Financial Affairs Maija Strandberg of the Ownership Steering Department in the Prime Minister’s Office of Finland, tel. +358 295 160 981.

Neste in brief

Neste (NESTE, Nasdaq Helsinki) creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy. We refine waste, residues and innovative raw materials into renewable fuels and sustainable feedstock for plastics and other materials. We are the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge. We aim at helping customers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions with our renewable and circular solutions by at least 20 million tons annually by 2030. Our ambition is to make the Porvoo oil refinery in Finland the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. We are introducing renewable and recycled raw materials such as liquefied waste plastic as refinery raw materials. We have committed to reaching carbon-neutral production by 2035, and we will reduce the carbon emission intensity of sold products by 50% by 2040. We also have set high standards for biodiversity, human rights and supply chain. We have consistently been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices and the Global 100 list of the world’s most sustainable companies. In 2021, Neste's revenue stood at EUR 15.1 billion. Read more: neste.com