FINLAND — The Chair of the Board of Directors of Metsä Board Corporation Ilkka Hämälä announced that he will resign from his position on the Board of Directors as of 1 July 2025. Hämälä became the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Company as well as the President and CEO of Metsä Group in 2018. …The Board of Directors of Metsä Board has today elected from among themselves Jussi Vanhanen, who will become the President and CEO of Metsä Group on 1 July 2025, to become the new Chair of the Board of Directors as of 1 July 2025. Vanhanen has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Company since March 2025, a member of the Board of Directors of Metsäliitto Cooperative from 2022 to 2025, and CEO of Metsäliitto Cooperative since 1 May 2025.