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Teleste Oyj

Remuneration Information Mar 28, 2025

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TELESTE – REMUNERATION REPORT FOR THE COMPANY'S GOVERNING BODIES

2024

Table of contents

1. Introduction 3
2. Fees of the Board of Directors 4
3. Remuneration of the CEO 5

1. Introduction

This Remuneration Report follows the guidelines of the Corporate Governance Code 2025. The remuneration paid or due to the Board members and the CEO for the year 2024 is in line with the Remuneration Policy of the Governing Bodies of Teleste approved at the Annual General Meeting ("the AGM") 2024. The materialised remuneration of the Board members and the CEO in the year 2024 reflects the targets of remuneration principles which Teleste has set with its Remuneration Policy.

The remuneration paid or due to the Board members and the CEO for the year 2024 promotes the longterm financial performance and success of Teleste Oyj ("Teleste" or "the Company") as described below.

The purpose of the total compensation of the Board members, consisting of annual remuneration and meeting fees, is to be sufficiently competitive to ensure that sufficiently qualified persons can be recruited to perform the responsibilities of the Board of Directors. The tasks of the Board of Directors include deciding on the Company's strategy and setting and monitoring the implementation of long-term objectives. Thus, the principles for Board remuneration contribute to Teleste's long-term financial performance and success.

The CEO's remuneration is based on Teleste's remuneration principles. The key objective of the remuneration for the CEO of Teleste is to encourage him in increasing the shareholder value by aligning his interests with the interests of Teleste's shareholders. Both fixed and variable salary components are tied to the market situation, strategy and the Company's success. A comparison of the development of the fees of the Board of Directors and the remuneration of the CEO to the development of the average remuneration of the employees and to the Company's net sales and adjusted EBIT is illustrated and compared in the table below.

The Remuneration Policy of the Governing Bodies, which is in line with the Corporate Governance Code, and the Remuneration Report for the Company's Governing Bodies 2023 were presented and approved at the AGM 2024.

EUR 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020
Board of Directors1 247,000 247,000 247,000 247,000 247,000
President and CEO2 304,674 325,704 310,260 457,530 396,908
Employees' average remunera
tion3
49,528 47,594 48,250 46,591 44,808
Financial development:
Net sales, continuing operations,
EUR million
132.5 151.3 165.0 144.0 4
145.0
Adjusted EBIT, continuing opera
tions, EUR million
4.0 1.2 2.0 5.5 5.1

Development of remuneration and financial development (EUR) over the past five years

¹ Values exclude meeting fees.

4 Teleste divested its services business in Germany in 2020. Sold operations are excluded from continuing operations 2020.

2 Values exclude additional pension payments. The data for 2020–2021 comprises the remuneration of CEO Jukka Rinnevaara. The data for 2022, 2023 and 2024 comprises the remuneration of CEO Esa Harju, who took up his post on 1 January 2022.

3 Average employee: total personnel expenses (including bonuses) without social and pension costs divided by the average number of personnel during the year.

Teleste's AGM 2024 decided on the annual remunerations to be paid to the members of the Board of Directors as follows: EUR 66,000 per year for the Chairman and EUR 33,000 per year for each member. The annual remuneration of the Board member who acts as the chairman of the Audit Committee shall be EUR 49,000 per year. Of the annual remuneration to be paid to the Board members, 40 per cent of the total gross remuneration amount will be used to purchase Teleste Corporation's shares for the Board members through trading on the regulated market organised by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd, and the rest will be paid in cash. No separate meeting fee will be paid to the members of the Board of Directors or the chairmen of the Board of Directors' committees. A meeting fee of EUR 400 per meeting is to be paid to the members of the Board of Directors' committees for those committee meetings that they attend.

In addition, reasonable travel expenses shall be reimbursed to the members of the Board of Directors in accordance with the Company practice applicable at the time, excluding daily allowance. The members of the Board of Directors are not employed by the company and are not covered by the company's incentive or pension schemes.

EUR 2024 2023
Annual remuneration
Annual remuneration
Share
portion
Cash
portion
Meeting
fees¹
Total Share
por
tion
Cash
portion
Meeting
fees¹
Total
Timo
Luukkainen,
Chairman of
the Board
26,400 39,600 1,600 67,600 26,400 39,600 66,000
Jussi
Himanen
13,200 19,800 3,600 36,600 13,200 19,800 2,800 35,800
Vesa
Korpimies
13,200 19,800 3,600 36,600 13,200 19,800 2,800 35,800
Heikki
Mäkijärvi2
0 0 0 13,200 19,800 33,000
Kai Telanne 13,200 19,800 33,000 13,200 19,800 33,000
Mirel Leino
Haltia
19,600 29,400 49,000 19,600 29,400 49,000
Anni
Ronkainen3
13,200 19,800 1,600 34,600
Total 98,800 148,200 10,400 257,400 98,800 148,200 5,600 252,600

Remuneration and meeting fees of the Board of Directors paid in 2024 and 2023

¹ Meeting fees have been entered into the table in the year in which they were paid.

2 Heikki Mäkijärvi served as a member of Teleste's Board of Directors until 11 April, 2024. 3 Anni Ronkainen joined Teleste's Board of Directors in 11 April, 2024.

There is no remuneration due to be paid to the Board members based on the year 2024.

3. Remuneration of the CEO

The remuneration of the CEO consists of fixed and variable salary components: base salary, fringe benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives and additional pension.

Remuneration of the CEO paid in 2024 and 2023

EUR 2024 2023
Base salary 283,540 279,720
Fringe benefits 15,679 12,373
Short-term incentives1 0 27,255
Long-term incentives (share
based)2
5,455 6,356
Total3 304,674 325,704
Share of fixed pay of total remuner
ation
98.2% 89.6%
Share of variable pay of total remu
neration
1.8% 10.4%
Additional pension payment 74,189 72,450

1 Amounts have been entered in the table in the year in which they were paid and are based on the performance from the previous year.

2 Paid on 28 March 2024 at a share price of EUR 3.14. Paid on 31 March 2023 at a share price of EUR 3.53.

3 The amounts do not include additional pension payments.

A defined contribution supplementary pension is included in the CEO's contract. The payment level of the group pension is 25 per cent of base pay, excluding bonuses, until the age of 65 or termination of employment.

The CEO's variable remuneration earning opportunity and performance measures

The CEO is included in the Company's short-term incentive scheme, which is part of the elements of Teleste's variable salary component. The objective of the short-term incentive scheme is to incentivise the execution of the business plan and to reward the participants accordingly. The Board of Directors decides on the structure, objectives, target levels and prospects of earning of the CEO's incentive scheme.

  • In 2023, the earnings were based on the Group's adjusted EBIT (60% weight), the development of net working capital in 2023 (20% weight), the specification of the Group's ESG programme (5% weight) and strategy-linked personal targets (15% weight). The Board of Directors evaluates the achievement of the targets at the end of the earnings period. The CEO's maximum earning opportunity was 78.8% of the annual base salary (ten months' base salary) excluding bonuses. The general financial minimum criterion specified in Teleste's policy concerning the short-term incentive scheme was not met. Consequently, the CEO was paid no bonuses under the short-term incentive scheme for 2023.
  • In 2024, the earnings were based on the Group's adjusted EBIT (60% weight), the development of net working capital in 2024 (20% weight), the Group's sustainability-linked performance indicators (5% weight) and strategy-linked personal targets (15% weight). The Board of Directors evaluates the achievement of the targets at the end of the earnings period. The CEO's maximum earning opportunity was 79.4% of the annual base salary (ten months' base salary) excluding bonuses. The general financial minimum criterion specified in Teleste's policy concerning the short-term incentive scheme

was not met. Consequently, the CEO will be paid no bonuses under the short-term incentive scheme for 2024.

The CEO is included in the Company's long-term incentive scheme, which is part of the elements of Teleste's variable salary component. The objective of the long-term incentive scheme is to encourage to execute the long-term strategy and to increase shareholder value and reward accordingly.

• The share-based incentive payment for the CEO during the year 2024 was based on the long-term incentive scheme 2021 (performance period 2021–2023). The CEO participated in this incentive scheme in his role as a head of business unit (SVP) at Teleste at the time. The elements in the scheme included a matching share plan (ratio 2:1) and a performance share plan. The performance criterion for the performance share plan was the Absolute Total Shareholder Return in the measurement period of 2021–2023. The maximum combined earning opportunity for these two elements was 60% (EUR 113,400) of Esa Harju's 2021 annual head of business unit (SVP) base salary, excluding bonuses. The CEO's payout based on a fixed matching element was 2.9% (EUR 5,455) of his 2021 annual SVP base salary. There was no payout based on the performance matching element as the minimum performance threshold was not met.

Performance Share
Plan 2022–2024
Performance Share
Plan 2023–2025
Performance Share
Plan 2024–2026
Earning
opportunity:
fixed
matching shares (matching ra
tio 2:1)
4,125 shares 6,250 shares 1,950 shares
Earning
opportunity:
perfor
mance shares
66,000 shares 75,000 shares 93,600 shares
Max earning opportunity (% of
base pay)
110.3% 105.7% 85.3%
Performance measure (for per Absolute Total Share Absolute Total Share Absolute Total Share
formance shares) holder Return and cu holder Return and cu holder Return and cu
mulative adjusted mulative adjusted mulative adjusted
EBIT EBIT EBIT
Pay-out year 2025 2026 2027

The CEO is included in the following ongoing long-term incentive schemes

Teleste adheres to a shareholding recommendation for the CEO as described in the Teleste Remuneration Policy.

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