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Roeloff (Ralph) Jacobus Boëttger**
Chief executive officer
Age: 51
Qualifications: BAcc Hons, CA(SA)
Skills, expertise and experience
At the age of 34 he was appointed chief executive officer of Safair and the next year appointed to the executive committee of Safmarine Limited. From 1998 until July 2007, he was with Imperial Holdings when Imperial acquired Safair. From 2002, he was an executive director of Imperial Holdings with responsibility for their local and international logistics operations, the aviation division and the heavy commercial vehicle distribution operations. His field of responsibility encompassed businesses operating in Southern Africa, numerous European countries, the Middle East and Asia. He is well versed in managing an operation with diverse cultures.
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Stephen (Steve) Robert Binnie**
Chief financial officer
Age: 45
Qualifications: BCom, BAcc, MBA, CA(SA)
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Binnie joined Sappi in July 2012 as chief financial officer designate and was appointed chief financial officer and executive director from 01 September 2012. Prior to joining Sappi, he held various senior finance roles and was most recently chief financial officer of Edcon (Pty) Limited for 10 years after having been financial manager at Investec Bank Limited for four years.
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Mark Gardner**
President and chief executive officer of Sappi Fine Paper North America
Age: 57
Qualifications: BSc (Industrial Technology)
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Gardner was named president and chief executive officer of Sappi Fine Paper North America (SFPNA) in 2007 and is responsible for leading all Sappi operations in the region. That same year, he was also appointed to the SFPNA board. He joined Sappi in 1981 and his experience includes serving as the vice-president of manufacturing and vice-president of supply chain, prior to which he worked in a variety of production management roles at Sappi, including production manager at the Westbrook Mill, Paper Mill manager at the Somerset Mill, managing director at the Muskegon Mill and director of Engineering and Manufacturing Technology at the regional head office in Boston. In 2009, Mr Gardner received the TAPPI (Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry)/PIMA (Paper Industry Management Association) Executive of the Year Award. The award is the highest recognition for leadership and management given by PIMA. He currently serves on the board of directors of the American Forest & Paper Association. In September 2012, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the University of Maine System.
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Alexander van Coller Thiel**
Chief executive officer of Sappi Southern Africa
Age: 51
Qualifications: BSc (Mechanical Engineering), MBA (Financial Management and IT)
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Thiel joined Sappi in December 1989 as the executive assistant to the executive chairmain in Johannesburg. In April 1993, as part of Sappi's expansion into Europe, he moved to Brussels as the administration manager reporting to the managing director of Sappi Europe. With the creation of Sappi Fine Paper Europe he was appointed in February 1998 as manager marketing intelligence, reporting to the esales and marketing director. In January 2003, he became the director logistics, reporting to the chief executive officer of Sappi Fine Paper Europe. He was appointed as group head procurement, Sappi Limited in January 2008 and integration executive, in charge of the acquired business into Sappi's operations, in September 2008. He led a project to redefine and implement Sappi's 'go-to-market' strategy in Europe from October 2009. Mr Thiel was appointed chief executive officer of Sappi Southern Africa with effect from 01 December 2010.
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Berend (Berry) John Wiersum**
Chief executive officer of Sappi Fine Paper Europe
Age: 57
Qualifications: MA (Medieval and Modern History)
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Wiersum joined Sappi in January 2007 as chief executive officer Sappi Fine Paper Europe. Prior to joining Sappi, Mr Wiersum was a freelance mergers and acquisitions consultant for one year. He previously was managing director of Kappa Packaging and member of the management board in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) where he was responsible for overseeing over 90 packaging plants across Europe, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa. Mr Wiersum was chairman of Cepi (Confederation of European Paper Industries) from 2011 – 2012.
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Andrea Rossi**
Group head technology
Age: 59
Qualifications: BSc Eng (Hons), C Eng
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Rossi joined Sappi in 1989. Prior to becoming group head technology, Mr Rossi held numerous roles in the company including project director Sappi Saiccor 'Amakhulu' expansion project, Sappi Kraft manufacturing director, managing director Sappi Forests, general manager Enstra Mill, and engineering services manager for Sappi Management Services.
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Lucia Adele Swartz**
Group head human resources
Age: 55
Qualifications: BA, Dip HR
Skills, expertise and experience
Ms Swartz joined Sappi in May 2002 in her current position. Prior to joining Sappi she worked for the Seagram Spirits and Wine Group as human resources director, Global Functions based in New York.
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Bradley Coward
Group chief information officer
Age: 57
Qualifications: Grad Dip (Corporate Direction and Business Management), Cert (Senior Management and Leadership Development)
Skills, expertise and experience
Brad joined Sappi in 2008. Prior to joining Sappi he was Operations and Services Director at Derivco (Pty) Ltd. He has a keen interest in IT Governance and served on the IT Governance sub-committee of King III.
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André Frederich Oberholzer
Group head corporate affairs
Age: 46
Qualifications: BCom (Law)
Skills, expertise and experience
André Oberholzer joined Sappi Limited in 2001 as the Group Head for Corporate Affairs. In this role he has global responsibility for Sappi’s internal, external, corporate and business communication and reputation management programmes. In addition, he has line responsibility for Sappi’s Southern African communication function. Prior to joining Sappi he worked for 14 years as a diplomat for South Africa, focused on multilateral affairs.
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Maarten van Hoven**
Group head strategy and legal
Age: 39
Qualifications: BProc, LLM (International Business Law)
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr van Hoven joined Sappi in December 2011. Mr van Hoven, an admitted attorney of the High Court in South Africa, has held various positions at the South African Competition Commission, most recently as Divisional Manager: Mergers & Acquisitions. As well as being on the group executive committee he has joined the boards of Sappi Fine Paper Europe,
Sappi Fine Paper North America and Sappi Southern Africa.
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