21.03.2024
Decisions of Posti Group Corporation's Annual General Meeting: Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae continues as Board Chair
Posti Group Corporation's Annual General Meeting was held in Helsinki on 20 March 2024. In line with the Board of Directors' proposal, the Annual General Meeting decided to distribute a dividend of EUR 31.8 million. The dividend will be paid in two parts during the year 2024.The meeting adopted the 2023 financial statements and discharged the members of the Board of Directors, Supervisory Board and President and CEO from liability.
Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting decided that the Board of Directors be composed of ten (10) members and re-elected the following persons to the Board of Directors:
Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom, Board Professional
Kari-Pekka Laaksonen, CEO
Jukka Leinonen, Board Professional
Frank Marthaler, Board Professional
Minna Pajumaa, Senior Financial Counsellor
Anni Ronkainen, Board Professional
Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae, Board Professional
Stefan Svensson, Chief Operating Officer
Hanna Vuorela, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Satu Ollikainen as an employee representative.
Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae was elected to continue as the Board Chair and Jukka Leinonen as Deputy Chair. Information on members of the Board of Directors can be found on the company’s home page at posti.com on section Governance/Board of Directors.In its constitutive meeting, held after the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors decided on the below committees and committee members as follows:
The Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee with members Raija-Leena Hankonen-Nybom (Chair), Kari-Pekka Laaksonen, Frank Marthaler and Hanna Vuorela
Personnel Committee with members Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae (Chair), Jukka Leinonen, Minna Pajumaa and Anni Ronkainen
Strategy Committee with members Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae (Chair), Jukka Leinonen, Anni Ronkainen and Stefan Svensson
Supervisory Board
Annual General Meeting re-elected the following members to the Supervisory Board:
Pekka Aittakumpu, MP, Centre Party
Tiina Elo, MP, Green Party
Timo Furuholm, MP, Left Alliance
Tomi Immonen, MP, National Coalition Party
Aleksi Jäntti, MP, Centre Party
Milla Lahdenperä, MP, Centre Party
Mia Laiho, MP, Centre Party
Anders Norrback, MP, Swedish People’s Party
Jorma Piisinen, MP, National Coalition Party
Timo Suhonen, MP, Social Democratic Party
Sari Tanus, MP, Christian Democrats
Paula Werning, MP, Social Democratic Party
Annual General Meeting elected Mia Laiho to continue as the Chair of the Supervisory Board, and Paula Werning as the Deputy Chair.
Board of Directors’ and Supervisory Board’s remuneration
The remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board remained unchanged.The members of the Board of Directors are paid monthly remuneration:
3 650 euros / month for the Board Chair
2 350 euros / month for the Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Board Committee who is not the Chair or Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors
2 100 euros / month for the members of the Board of Directors, with the exception of a personnel representative who is not paid a monthly fee.
In addition to the monthly remuneration, a meeting fee (also to the employee representative) for attending Board and Committee meetings are paid as follows:
600 euros / domestic on-site meeting
1 200 euros / non-domestic on-site meeting
600 euros / remote, telephone, e-mail, etc. meeting.
The members of the Supervisory Board shall be paid the following meeting remuneration fee: the Chair's meeting fee shall be 800 euros per meeting, the Deputy Chair’s 600 euros per meeting and the other members of the Supervisory Board shall be 500 euros per meeting.
Auditor
PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy (PwC), authorized public accountants, will continue as Posti Group Corporation’s auditor, with Authorized Public Accountant Mikko Nieminen as the principal.