Decisions of the constitutive meeting of the Board of Directors of VR-Group Plc
Decisions of the constitutive meeting of the Board of Directors of VR-Group Plc
VR-Group Plc, stock exchange release, 15 April 2026 at 10 EET
At VR's Annual General Meeting on 14 April 2026, Esa Ikäheimonen was elected as the Chair of the Board of Directors and Hanna Sievinen was elected as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors. Torborg Chetkovich, Nermin Hairedin, Markus Holm, Ilpo Nuutinen and Minna Schrey-Hyppänen were elected as members of the Board of Directors.
Decisions of the Board's constitutive meeting on 15 April 2026
The Board of Directors appointed Hanna Sievinen as the Chair and Torborg Chetkovich and Markus Holm as members of the Audit Committee.
The Board of Directors appointed Esa Ikäheimonen as the Chair and Nermin Hairedin, Ilpo Nuutinen and Minna Schrey-Hyppänen as members of the People & Culture Committee.
The Board of Directors has assessed the independence of its members and concluded that all members of the Board of Directors, except Ilpo Nuutinen, are independent of both the company and its shareholder (State of Finland). Ilpo Nuutinen is not considered independent of the company's owner based on his employment relationship.
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About VR-Yhtymä Oyj
At VR, we promote the responsible transport of the future. We are a passenger, logistics and maintenance service company owned by the Finnish state, and we increase the popularity of carbon-neutral rail and city traffic. We ensure smooth daily travel in Finland and Sweden and act as a pillar of support for industry in Finland’s logistics. In 2025, our customers made a total of 16.1 million journeys on long-distance trains with us in Finland, and we transported 24.8 million tonnes of goods by rail. Our net sales amounted to EUR 1,252.5 million, and at the end of the year we employed more than 9,500 top professionals. Further information: https://www.vrgroup.fi/en/