Neste Oil Oyj: Neste Oil appoints Tuomas Hyyryläinen as Senior Vice President, Strategy

Neste Oil Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
19 April 2012 at 9.00 a.m. (EET)

Neste Oil appoints Tuomas Hyyryläinen as Senior Vice President, Strategy

Tuomas Hyyryläinen, M.Sc.(Econ), 34, has been appointed Senior Vice President, Strategy at Neste Oil and a member of the Neste Executive Board as of 1 July 2012. He will report to President & CEO Matti Lievonen. Hyyryläinen will join Neste Oil from F-Secure Corporation, where he has been Vice President, Strategy and M&A and a member of the company's Executive Team since 2010. Prior to F-Secure, Hyyryläinen headed strategy at Nokia Devices at Nokia Corporation and served in various strategy- and business development-related positions at Nokia and VDSL Systems.

"We are very happy to welcome Tuomas Hyyryläinen on board at Neste Oil," says President & CEO Matti Lievonen. "He has a strong background in strategy work and will bring some new perspectives to our business."

Neste Oil Corporation

Hanna Maula
Director, Corporate Communications

Attachment: photo of Mr Hyyryläinen

Further information: Matti Lievonen, President and CEO, tel. [phone]

Neste Oil in brief
Neste Oil Corporation is a refining and marketing company concentrating on low-emission, high-quality traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world's leading supplier of renewable diesel. Neste Oil had net sales of EUR 15.4 billion in 2011 and employs around 5,000 people, and is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Neste Oil is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Ethibel Pioneer Investment Register, and has featured in The Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable corporations for a number of years. Forest Footprint Disclosure (FFD) has ranked Neste Oil as one of the best performers in the oil & gas sector. Further information: www.nesteoil.com (http://www.nesteoil.com)

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