On the 18th of March,
Highlights of year 2018
FBC had an active year 2018:
- As per 31st of December 2018, FBC had
- 48 Corporate Members
- 13 Individual Members
- 2 Honorary Members
- The year was active on both events and communications
- In total there were 923 registered for FBC events and 836 participants in 19 events
- FBC relaunched its web site and increased traffic on all its digital channels (web, Facebook, LinkedIn, email newsletters)
- For the first time in 4 years, FBC made some profit
- FBC rejoined EuroCham (https://eurocham.org.sg/ )
- Eurocham provides European business with a communication and lobbying channel to Singaporean and European political & economic circles and are the sole European representative at the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) council.

Changes in rules
The Annual General meeting approved the suggested changes to FBC rules:
- Finnish Supplementary School (Suomi-
koulu )- the Finnish Supplementary School (FSS, Suomi-
koulu ) will separate from the Finnish Business Council - Going forward it will be administered under SiSu(FAS, Finnish Association in Singapore).
- FSS and FAS have great synergies and possibility to greatly benefit from tighter collaboration
- the Finnish Supplementary School (FSS, Suomi-
- Simplification of the process for selecting the Board:
- Starting from AGM 2020, at each AGM up to nine members of the Board to be elected by the Corporate Members
- The newly elected Board will choose who will act as Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer
- At least half of the Board Members are to be representatives of Corporate Members
- FinnLink paper magazine only to be published when needed
- FinnLink will be
going forward only be published at such times and in such form as the Board may determine from time to time.
- FinnLink will be
New Board – Welcome!
The new FBC Board was elected as follows
- Chairman Mr Janne Lautanala (Wärtsilä) – continuing board member
- Deputy Chairman Mr Alpesh Shah (Neste Engineering Solutions) – new board member
- Treasurer Ms Tiina Haikola (Aalto EE) – new board member
- Secretary Mr Jaakko Krankkala (KONE) – continuing board member
- Member Mr Jani Valtonen (Nordea) – new board member
- Member Ms Niina Tippin (Expat Insurance) – new board member
- Member Mr Tero Juotasniemi (Handelsbanken) – new board member
- Member Ms Leena Ollitervo (Nokia) – continuing board member
- Member Ms Anissa Margono (PRE:MIND) – new board member

I would like to thank the old board for good collaboration during last year and welcome the new board members!
New active year ahead
We have a new active business council year ahead. Please continue participating actively in our events and activities

Janne Lautanala
Chairman
Finnish Business Council