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Stock exchange release - 2 February 2005

de Neergaard resigns from CapMan Plc Board of Directors

Claes de Neergaard, member of the CapMan Plc Board, has today been appointed as President of the Swedish venture capital investor Industrifonden (The Swedish Industrial Development Fund). Due to this appointment de Neergaard resigns from the CapMan Plc Board of Directors, effective immediately.

The current members of CapMan Plc Board are Lauri Koivusalo (ch), Vesa Vanha-Honko (v ch), Tapio Hintikka, Lennart Jacobsson, Teuvo Salminen and Ari Tolppanen.


Additional information:
Ari Tolppanen, CEO, CapMan Plc, tel. +358 9 6155 8307


CAPMAN PLC

Jerome Bouix
Director, Fundraising and IR


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Helsinki Exchanges
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CapMan Group

CapMan is one of the leading private equity investors in the Nordic countries and specialises in middle market buyouts in various industry sectors, technology investments in the IT and telecommunications sectors and investments in life science companies. The CapMan team comprises around 80 people in Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo. CapMan manages/advises Nordic funds with approx. EUR 1.2 billion in total capital. CapMan’s affiliated company Access Capital Partners has EUR 574 million under management. To date, the funds managed by CapMan have invested in 148 companies in the Nordic countries and exited from 70 companies. The latest investments are made in Swedish SciBase AB, Finnish Tokmanni Oy, Norwegian Locus AS and Danish Anhydro Group. CapMan Plc is listed on the Main List of the Helsinki Stock Exchange. www.capman.com