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F-Secure Oyj AGM Information 2016

Apr 4, 2016

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AGM Information

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PROPOSED BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2016-2017

F-Secure Corporation
Annual General Meeting
7.4.2016

F-Secure.


Proposed Board members for 2016-2017

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Risto Siilasmaa

Currently Chairman of the Board

Born 1966

Risto Siilasmaa is the founder of F-Secure and served as the President and CEO of the company until November 5, 2006. Since then he has held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. Risto Siilasmaa joined the Board of Directors of Nokia Corporation in 2008 and became Chairman of the Board in May, 2012. In addition he served as an interim CEO of the company during 09/2013 – 04/2014. He is Chairman of the Board of The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries as well as a board member of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK). He is also a member of the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) and the Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board at Tsinghua University.

Mr Siilasmaa has received several awards including Nordic Chairman of the year 2009, the Most Influential IT Leader 2007 and The Leader of the Decade 2003. Siilasmaa is an active business angel and well-known within the Finnish start-up scene. He takes active part in Finnish and European governmental and industry expert groups. Siilasmaa holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

Risto Siilasmaa is a major shareholder in F-Secure (37.76 %) and thus not an independent candidate for the Board of Directors as stipulated in the Corporate Governance Code.

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Pertti Ervi

Currently Chairman of the Audit Committee

Born 1957

Pertti Ervi is a management consultant and serves in board of directors in several companies. He has served on the Board of F-Secure since 2003 and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr Ervi is a Chairman of the Boards of Efecte Oy and Comptel Corporation and the Vice Chairman of Ixonos Plc. He is also a member of the Board of Teleste Corporation. Mr Ervi co-founded Computer 2000 Finland Oy and served as a MD for the company until 1995. After that he worked as Co-President for Computer 2000 AG international headquarters in Munich, Germany. He has worked closely at international management level with major IT vendors such as Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP and Microsoft. Mr Ervi holds a B.Sc/Electronics degree from Tekniska Läroverket (Swedish Institute of Technology) in Helsinki. He has also completed several financial and management studies.

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Anu Nissinen

Currently Member of the Board

Born 1963

Anu Nissinen has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2010. She is the founding partner of Era Content Oy. Anu Nissinen has previously acted as the CEO of Sanoma Media and a Member of the Executive Management Group of Sanoma, President of Sanoma Entertainment Oy, President of SW Television Oy / Welho, Marketing Director of Helsinki Television Oy and Marketing Manager of Oy Sinebrychoff Ab. She is a Member of the Board at DNA Oy, Siili Solutions, Viestilehdet Oy and Kesko Corporation. Anu Nissinen holds M.Sc. degree (Econ.).

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Proposed Board members for 2016-2017

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Jussi Arovaara

Currently Member of the Board

Born 1966

Jussi Arovaara has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2010. Mr. Arovaara has been Vice President, Global Sales in Corel Corporation (UK) since 2013 and has served in several international sales, marketing and business development positions in Corel Corporation in the UK, Canada and Finland since 1996, e.g. during 2010-2012 Vice President, Global Operations, Corel Corporation (UK); 2005-2009 Senior Director, International Sales and Marketing Operations, Corel Corporation (UK); 2004-2005 Director, International Product Marketing, (UK) and 1999-2001 International Product Marketing Corel Corporation, Vice President, Sales Operations Corel Corporation (Canada). In his earlier career before 1996 he has worked in several sales and marketing positions in computer wholesale.

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Matti Heikkonen

Currently Member of the Board

Born 1976

Matti Heikkonen has served as a member of the Board of F-Secure since 2013. He is an associate and COO of Questback AS. Previously he has served as entrepreneur and CEO of Digium Oy, Head of Nokia-Cisco Systems global alliance, 2004-2007, entrepreneur of Triple Check Oy, 2002-2004, associate and business unit manager of Done Solutions Oyj, 2000-2002 and entrepreneur of Identia Oy, 1998-2000. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association and a board member in Mobile Wellness MWS Oy. Matti Heikkonen holds a M.Sc. degree (Engineering).

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Bruce Oreck

Proposed new Member of the Board

Born 1953

Bruce Oreck served as the United States Ambassador to Finland from 2009 until 2015. During that time, he also served as the Chairman of the State Department's League of Green Embassies and in that capacity achieved the first LEED® Platinum embassy building anywhere in the world.

Prior to his work at the State Department, Ambassador Oreck practiced law specializing in business and taxation and represented many of the top 100 companies in America. In addition, he served as the Executive Vice-President and General Counsel for Oreck Corporation, the floorcare and consumer products company. Ambassador Oreck is the author of several tax treatises and has been a public speaker for over 20 years – addressing topics as diverse as creativity, envisioning the future, entrepreneurship and marketing.

Ambassador Oreck obtained his Bachelor of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University, his Juris Doctorate from Louisiana State University and his Masters of Law (Taxation) from New York University.

Currently Ambassador Oreck is an Executive in Residence at Aalto University in Helsinki focusing on business and entrepreneurship. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of USGBC, the largest and most influential high performance building and urban redesign organization in the world.

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Proposed Board members for 2016-2017

Janne Pirttilahti

Proposed new Member of the Board

Born 1976

Janne Pirttilahti has worked with F-Secure since 2005 in various product management roles. He is founder of the F-Secure Freedome Product and acted as Freedome Product Director until end of 2015. Currently he is Director for new Cyber Security Services. Previously he has served with Rommon Oy in 2003-2005 as Sales Manager (F-Secure acquired Rommon 12/2005), Bonware Oy 2001-2003 as Product Manager, Axel Digital Group Oy 2000-2001 as Researcher and ICL Oy 1997-2000 in research and product development roles. He is founding partner and member of the board of Loopback Oy.

As a member of F-Secure personnel Janne Pirttilahti is not an independent candidate for the Board of Directors as stipulated in the Corporate Governance Code.

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