Provided that the Extraordinary General Meeting of Diamyd Medical AB to be held on April 22 resolves in favor of the proposed restructuring of the Diamyd Group, after which Diamyd Medical AB will be renamed Mertiva AB, the incoming Board of Directors in the future Mertiva AB plans to appoint Andreas Bergsten as the President at a statutory meeting following the General Meeting. Andreas Bergsten is currently working as a consultant in the fields of finance and company management and, in his capacity as a consultant, has worked primarily for venture capital firms. In the past, Andreas has served as CFO of four different companies and, prior to this, he was employed at Citigroup, initially as a financial analyst and subsequently as a key account manager.