Our performance in 2009 - Sappi

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Our leadership continued
Independent non-executive directors continued
Bridgette Radebe
Age: 49
Qualifications:
BA (Pol Sc and Socio)
Nationality: South African
Appointed: May 2004
Franklin Abraham Sonn
Age: 70
Qualifications:
BA Hons, HDip Ed
Nationality: South African
Appointed: July 1999
* Retires 31 December 2009
Sappi board committee memberships
Human resources and transformation
committee
Other board and organisation
memberships
Mmakau Mining (Pty) Limited (executive
chairperson), South African Mining
Development Association (president),
Minerals and Mining Development Board
(vice president), New Africa Mining fund
(founder and board trustee)
Skills, expertise and experience
Ms Radebe was the first black South
African deep level hard rock mining
entrepreneur in the 1980s. She has more
than a decade of experience in contract
mining, mining construction and mining
mergers and acquisitions. She is founder
of Mmakau Mining which has investments
in platinum, coal, chrome and gold mines
as well as shaft sinkers. She participated
in the design of the South African Mining
Charter and present mining legislation.
Sappi board committee memberships
Nomination and governance committee
Other board and organisation
memberships
African Star Ventures (Pty) Limited
(chairman), Ekapa Mining (Pty) Limited
(chairman), Esorfranki Limited, Imalivest
(Pty) Limited (chairman), KV 3 Engineers
(Pty) Limited (chairman), Macsteel Service
Centres SA (Pty) Limited, Pioneer Group
Limited, RGA Reinsurance Co of
SA Limited, Steinhoff International
Holdings Limited, University of Cape Town
Graduate School of Business (executive in
residence), University of the Free State
(chancellor), Xinergistix Management
Services (Pty) Limited.
Skills, expertise and experience
Dr Sonn was formerly Rector of Peninsula
Technikon in Cape Town for 17 years and
was appointed democratic South Africa’s
first Ambassador to the United States
from 1995 to 1998. Dr Sonn is the
recipient of 12 honorary doctorates in
Law, Education, Humanities and
Philosophy from various institutions in
South Africa, Europe and North America.
He is chairman, trustee and patron to
numerous organisations of civil society.
He retired recently as chairman of Airports
Company South Africa Limited and as
non-executive director of ABSA Group,
Metropolitan Holdings Limited and
Metropolitan Life Limited.
Sir Anthony Nigel
Russel Rudd
Age: 63
Qualifications:
DL, Chartered Accountant
Nationality: British
Appointed: April 2006
Executive directors
Roeloff (Ralph) Jacobus
Boëttger
Chief executive officer
Age: 48
Qualifications:
BAcc Hons, CA (SA)
Nationality: South African
Appointed: July 2007
Mark Richard Thompson
Chief financial officer
Age: 57
Qualifications:
BCom, BAcc, LLB, CA (SA)
Nationality: South African
Appointed: August 2006
Sappi board committee memberships
Compensation committee
Nomination and governance committee
Other board and organisation
memberships
BAA Limited (chairman), BAE Systems
plc, Invensys plc (chairman), Pendragon
plc (chairman)
Skills, expertise and experience
Sir Nigel Rudd has held various senior
management and board positions in a
career spanning more than 35 years.
He founded Williams plc in 1982 and the
company went on to become one of the
largest industrial holding companies in the
United Kingdom. He was knighted by the
Queen for services to the manufacturing
industry in the UK in 1996 and holds
honorary doctorates at both the
Loughborough and Derby Universities.
In 1995, he was awarded the Founding
Societies Centenary Award by the Institute
of Chartered Accounts. He is a Deputy
Lieutenant of Derbyshire and a Freeman
of the City of London.
Sappi board committee memberships
Attends meetings of all board committees
by invitation
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 following Imperial’s acquisition of
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.
Sappi board committee memberships
Attends audit committee meetings
by invitation
Skills, expertise and experience
Mr Thompson joined Sappi in 1999 as
group corporate counsel and was
appointed to his present position in
August 2006. 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 Central
Merchant Bank.