2006 20-F - Sappi

Klaas de Kluis (70) (independent). Master of Law.
From January 1998 until July 1998, Mr de Kluis acted as Chairman of the Executive board of NV
Koninklijke KNP BT (now Buhrmann NV). He held the position of Vice Chairman of the Executive board
of NV Koninklijke KNP BT from March 1993 to April 1996. Presently he is a member of the supervisory
boards of a number of private companies in the Netherlands and is Chairman of the Audit Committee of
the board of directors of Sappi Limited. Mr de Kluis was appointed to the board of directors of Sappi
Limited in January 1998. Having reached the mandatory retirement age for non-executive directors of
Sappi Limited, Mr de Kluis will retire from the board at the end of December 2006.
Meyer Feldberg (64) (independent). BA, MBA, PhD.
Professor Feldberg’s career has included teaching and leadership positions in the business schools of
the universities of Cape Town, Northwestern and Tulane. He is currently Dean Emeritus and Sanford C.
Bernstein Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He is also a Senior Advisor to
Morgan Stanley in New York. Professor Feldberg serves on the Advisory Board of the British American
Business Council and has served on the Council of Competitiveness in Washington, DC. In 2001, the
International Centre in New York honored Professor Feldberg as a distinguished foreign-born American
who has made a significant contribution to American life. He is a director of major public companies
including Federated Department Stores, Inc., Revlon, Inc., Primedia, Inc. and UBS Funds. Professor
Feldberg was appointed to the Board of Directors of Sappi Limited in March, 2002 and is currently
Chairman of the Nomination and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation
Committee.
James Edward Healey (65) (independent). BSc (Public Accounting), Honorary Doctor (Commercial
Science), Certified Public Accountant (USA).
Mr Healey joined the Sappi Limited board with effect from July 2004. He is a member of the Audit
Committee of Sappi Limited and also a member of the Human Resources Committee. He is Chairman of
the Audit Committee of Sappi Fine Paper North America. He has held various senior financial positions in
a career spanning 37 years. In 1995, Mr Healey became Vice President and Treasurer of Bestfoods,
formerly CPC International Inc. In 1997 he became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of Nabisco Holdings Inc, one of the world’s largest snack food manufacturers, a position from which he
retired at the end of 2000. He is a member of the board of directors of Interchange Financial Services
Corporation.
Deenadayalen (Len) Konar (52) (independent) BCom, MAS, DCom, CA (SA).
Previously Professor and Head of the Department of Accountancy at the University of Durban-
Westville. He is a member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance, the Securities Regulation
Panel and the Institute of Directors. Companies of which he is a Non-executive Director include Old
Mutual South Africa, the South African Reserve Bank, Kumba Resources Limited, Illovo Sugar, JD
Group and Steinhoff International Holdings. Dr Konar joined the board of Sappi Limited in March 2002.
He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Human Resources Committee as well as the Chairman of
the Audit Committee of Sappi southern Africa region. He is a member and is Chairman of the External
Audit Committee of the International Monetary Fund in Washington.
Helmut Claus-Jurgen Mamsch (62) (independent).
Mr Mamsch studied economics at Deutsche Aussenhandels-und Verkehrs-Akademie, Bremen and
also received training in business administration and shipping in Germany, the UK and Belgium. He
worked for 20 years in international trade and shipping. In 1989 he joined VEBA AG (now E ON AG),
Germany’s largest utility-based conglomerate. From 1993 to 2000 he was a VEBA AG management board
member and as from 1998 responsible for their US electronic businesses and their Corporate Strategy and
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