Decisions of the Annual General Meeting of Teleste Corporation

TELESTE CORPORATION   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE      22.4.2020    AT 19:30 EEST

DECISIONS OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF TELESTE CORPORATION

The Annual General Meeting of Teleste Corporation held on 22 April 2020 adopted the financial statements and the consolidated financial statements. The members of the Board of Directors as well as the CEO were discharged from liability for the financial year 2019.

The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors to authorize the Board of Directors to resolve in its discretion on the distribution of a maximum of EUR 0.10 per share as dividend from the retained earnings and/or as repayment of capital from the fund for invested unrestricted equity in one or more instalments. The authorization would be valid until the opening of the next Annual General Meeting. The Company will announce each possible Board resolution on distribution of funds separately and confirm the relevant record and payment dates in such announcements.

The Annual General Meeting decided the number of members of the Board of Directors to be six. Mr. Jussi Himanen, Mr. Vesa Korpimies, Mr. Timo Luukkainen, Mr. Heikki Mäkijärvi, Mr. Kai Telanne and Ms. Mirel Leino were elected as members of the Board of Directors.

The annual remunerations to be paid to the members of the Board of Directors were decided to be 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 would be EUR 49,000 per year. Out 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 regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd, and the rest will be paid in cash. In addition, EUR 400 per meeting would be paid to the members of the Board of Directors’ Audit Committee as meeting fee. However, a separate meeting fee would not be paid to the chairman of the Audit Committee.

The Annual General Meeting decided that the number of auditors of Teleste Corporation shall be one. KPMG Oy Ab, Authorized Public Accountants, was elected as the auditor of the Company and KPMG Oy Ab has appointed Mr. Petri Kettunen, APA, as the principally responsible auditor. It was decided to pay the auditor’s compensation against an invoice approved by the Company.

The Annual General Meeting approved the proposal by the Board of Directors for the remuneration policy of the governing bodies of the company.

AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO DECIDE ON THE REPURCHASE OF THE COMPANY’S OWN SHARES

The Annual General Meeting decided to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on repurchasing the Company’s own shares in accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors. Based on the authorization, the Board of Directors may repurchase a maximum of 1,200,000 own shares of the Company otherwise than in proportion to the holdings of the shareholders by using the non-restricted equity through trading on regulated market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd at the market price prevailing at the time of acquisition.

The repurchase authorization shall be valid for eighteen (18) months from the resolution of the Annual General Meeting. The repurchase authorization revokes previously granted repurchase authorizations.

AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO DECIDE ON THE ISSUANCE OF SHARES AND SPECIAL RIGHTS ENTITLING TO SHARES

The Annual General Meeting accepted the proposal of the Board of Directors to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on issuing new shares and/or conveying the Company’s own shares held by the Company and/or granting special rights referred to in Chapter 10, Section 1 of the Finnish Companies Act.

New shares may be issued, and the Company’s own shares held by the Company may be conveyed either against payment or for free. New shares may be issued and the Company’s own shares held by the Company may be conveyed to the Company’s shareholders in proportion to their current shareholdings in the Company, or by waiving the shareholder’s pre-emption right, through a directed share issue if the Company has a weighty financial reason to do so. The new shares may also be issued in a free share issue to the Company itself.

Based on the authorization, the Board of Directors is entitled to decide on the issuance of new shares and/or conveyance of the Company’s own shares held by the Company so that a maximum of 2,000,000 shares may be issued and/or conveyed in total.

The maximum number of new shares that may be subscribed and own shares held by the Company that may be conveyed by virtue of the special rights granted by the Company is 1,000,000 shares in total which number is included in the above maximum numbers of new shares and own shares held by the Company.

The authorizations shall be valid for eighteen (18) months from the resolution of the Annual General Meeting. The authorizations revoke previously granted authorizations to decide on the issuance of shares and special rights entitling to shares.

ESTABLISHMENT OF A SHAREHOLDERS’ NOMINATION BOARD AND ADOPTION OF ITS CHARTER

The Annual General Meeting resolved, according to the proposal by the Board of Directors, to establish a shareholders’ nomination board that prepares matters concerning the appointment and remuneration of the Board of Directors. Further, the Annual General Meeting adopted the charter of the nomination board according to the proposal by the Board of Directors.

ORGANISATIONAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Board of Directors, which convened after the Annual General Meeting, elected Timo Luukkainen as its Chairman.

The composition of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors was decided as follows:
Ms. Mirel Leino, Chairman
Mr. Vesa Korpimies, Member
Mr. Jussi Himanen, Member

TELESTE CORPORATION

Jukka Rinnevaara
CEO

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Jukka Rinnevaara, tel +358 2 2605 611

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