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SAP
SAVVI
Sappi appoints Mark Thompson as Chief Financial Officer
Sappi Limited
(Registration number 1936/008963/06)
Issuer Code: SAVVI
JSE Code: SAP
ISIN Code: ZAE000006284
Stock Exchange Announcement
08 August 2006
Sappi appoints Mark Thompson as Chief Financial Officer
Sappi Limited, the global pulp and paper group, today announced that Mark
Thompson has been appointed as CFO with immediate effect and will join the Sappi
Limited board as an executive director.
Mark Richard Thompson (54) has been with Sappi since 1999 as Group Legal
Counsel. Prior to joining Sappi he was Group Treasurer at Anglo American,
Managing Director of Discount House Merchant Bank and previously Head of the
Corporate Finance Division of Senbank.
Sappi chairman, Eugene van As, said today:
"Mark Thompson brings an intimate knowledge and understanding of Sappi"s global
business and the broad finance function, and will, I am sure, play an important
role in developing the group"s future profitability".
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Additional information on Mark Richard Thompson:
He holds BCom, BAcc, and LLB degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand
(WITS) in Johannesburg.
He is a chartered accountant, CA (SA).
He read Management Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford
He started his career as an investigating accountant at the Industrial
Development Corporation, before joining Malbak where he was the PA to the CEO.
He spent 2 years as Head of Corporate Finance Division - Senbank.
Thereafter he spent 5 years as Managing Director of Discount House Merchant
Bank, before moving to Anglo American as Group Treasurer.
He joined Sappi as Group Corporate Counsel and Tax Advisor in 1999.
He holds a number of directorships within and outside of the Sappi group.
Sappi is the world"s leading producer of coated woodfree paper with production
facilities in nine countries on four continents - Europe, North America, Asia
(China) and Africa, sales offices on five continents and customers in over 100
countries worldwide. For further information visit www.sappi.com
For further information:
Andre F Oberholzer
Group Head Corporate Affairs
Sappi Limited (Reg No 1936/008963/06)
Tel +27 (0)11 407 8044
Fax +27 (0)11 403 8236
Mobile +27 (0)83 235 2973
Andre.Oberholzer@sappi.com
Date: 08/08/2006 09:59:05 AM Produced by the JSE SENS Department
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