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| | Mr. MacKay has been the Chairman of the Board of the Corporation since 2007, and he also chairs our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. MacKay has served as Counsel to the law firm MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP in Regina, Saskatchewan since 2005 and, prior to that, he was a partner in MacPherson from 1969 to 2004. In his legal practice, Mr. MacKay represented natural resources and manufacturing companies in their commercial transactions and provided advice in relation to corporate structure and governance issues. Mr. MacKay chaired the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services Sector in 1997 and 1998 and subsequently served as the Clifford Clark policy advisor to the Department of Finance Canada. Since 2004, he has been a director of The Toronto-Dominion Bank and The Mosaic Company, a world producer and international marketer of crop nutrients. Mr. MacKay has been a director of several manufacturing, natural resources and financial services companies, including as chair of board governance committees. He has specific experience in the forest products industry, having served as a director of Weyerhaeuser Canada Ltd., and as an advisor to the International Committee of the Weyerhaeuser Company board. |
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| | Ms. Alvarez has been appointed to the Board of the Corporation in 2012. She currently serves on our Audit Committee. Ms. Alvarez has served since 2011 as Group President for Americas of Barilla America, Inc., where she is responsible for North, Central and South America’s operations of Barilla S.p.A., a global food and beverages company headquartered in Parma, Italy. From 2006 to 2010, she held senior global management positions with The Coca-Cola Company. Prior to that, she held a number of increasingly senior positions in the personal and home care, and business-to-business categories of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Procter & Gamble in the United States and Latin America. |
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| | Mr. Apple has been a member of our Board of Directors since October 2012. He currently serves on our Human Resources Committee. Mr. Apple is the Chief Operating Officer of MasTec, Inc., a national infrastructure construction company active in the engineering, building, installation, maintenance and upgrade of energy, communication and utility infrastructure. He has been in that capacity since 2006. During 2005 and 2006 he also served as President of the MasTec Energy Group. Prior to that, he was the Senior Vice President of Operations for the DIRECTV Group, Inc. Mr. Apple also has significant European experience, having served in various executive capacities from 1989 to 2001 within the Hughes Electronics and Telefonica S.A. organizations in Europe, including as Chief Executive Officer of Hughes Electronics-Spain, and Chief Operating Officer of the Telefonica broadcast satellite company. |
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| | Mr. Gignac has been a director of the Corporation and/or Domtar Inc. since 1995. He currently serves on our Human Resources and on our Environmental, Health and Safety Committee. From 1986 to 2006, he served as president and CEO of Cambior Inc., an international mining and exploration company with operations, development projects and exploration activities in the Americas that was acquired by IAMGOLD Corporation in 2006. In addition to leading Cambior, Mr. Gignac has held senior management positions with Falconbridge Copper Corp, and Exxon Minerals Company. He is currently the president of G Mining Services Inc., a private mining consulting firm with international activities. Mr. Gignac is also chairman of Marengo Mining Ltd., and a director of Franco-Nevada Corp. He also served as chairman of the board of St. Andrew Goldfields Ltd. until May 2013, as chairman of the board of Gaz Metro Inc. until December 2011 and as chairman of the board of Andean Resources Ltd. until December 2010, as a director of Revett Minerals Ltd. from 2007 to 2009, and as a director of Cambior Inc. until 2006. |
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| | Mr. Levitt has been a director of the Corporation and/or Domtar Inc. since 1997. He is the Chairman of our Finance Committee and a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Prior to the formation of the Corporation in March 2007, he was the Chairman of the Board of Domtar Inc. from 2004. From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Levitt was president and then chief executive officer of Imasco Limited, a public consumer products and services company. Mr. Levitt is counsel at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a major Canadian law firm. From 2001 to 2010, he was co-chair of the firm, and, prior to his time at Imasco, he was a partner in the firm. Mr. Levitt has served on boards of directors of public companies since 1987 and currently serves as chairman of the board of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, and as director of Talisman Energy Inc. |
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| | Mr. Maffucci is a Director of the Corporation since May 2011. He currently serves on our Audit Committee, on our Finance Committee and on our Environmental, Health and Safety Committee. Since 2005, Mr. Maffucci has served on the board of directors of Martin Marietta Materials Inc., the second largest producer of construction aggregates in the United States, where he chairs the audit committee and is also a member of the finance committee. Mr. Maffucci served on the board of directors of Xerium Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of consumable products used in paper production, from November 2008 to August 2010, also serving on Xerium’s audit and compensation committees from 2008 to 2009. From June 2009 to August 2010, he also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Xerium. From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Maffucci served as executive vice president of Bowater Incorporated and president of its newsprint division. He served as chief financial officer of Bowater Incorporated from 1995 to 2005 and held a variety of positions in its finance organization throughout much of his career. Mr. Maffucci previously worked at KPMG.. |
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| | Mr. Steacy has been a director of the Corporation and/or Domtar Inc. since 2005. He currently serves as a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, our Finance Committee and is the Chairman of our Audit Committee. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Postmedia Network Canada Corporation and Cineplex/Galaxy Income Trust, where he also chairs the Audit Committee. From 2005 to 2007, he was also a director of Alliance Atlantic Communications Inc. and of Somerset Entertainment Income Fund. In addition to having worked for Ernst & Young from 1973 to 1978 in their audit practice, Mr. Steacy has over 20 years of senior financial officer experience, including as vice president, finance and as executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Torstar Corporation, an international publisher and a major Canadian media company, from 1989 until his retirement in 2005. |
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| | Ms. Strobel has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2007 and currently chairs our Human Resources Committee and serves on our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. In 2005, Ms. Strobel retired as an Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Exelon Corporation, one of the largest U.S. electric utilities where she had the overall responsibility for the financial performance of the utility companies serving the Chicago and Philadelphia regions. During her tenure with Exelon and its predecessor companies, starting in 1993, Ms. Strobel served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer and as Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Edison Company, as an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Unicom Corporation and Commonwealth Edison Company, as President of Exelon’s Business Services Company, and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exelon Energy Delivery, the holding company for Exelon’s energy delivery business. Her various positions at Exelon required engaging with customers, regulators and legislators. Ms. Strobel was named as one of Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Business in 2002. She currently is a director of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and of Illinois Tool Works, Inc. where she also chairs the audit committee and serves as a member of the compensation committee. |
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| | Mr. Turcotte has been serving on our Board of Directors since 2007 and is currently a member of our Human Resources Committee, of our Finance Committee and is the Chairman of our Environmental Health and Safety Committee. From 1992 to 2002, he held a number of senior executive positions with companies in the pulp and paper industry, including president of the paper group and executive vice president of corporate development and strategy of Tembec Inc., a leading integrated forest products company with operations in North America and France. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Turcotte was the president and CEO and a director of Algoma Steel Inc. Mr. Turcotte is currently president and CEO of North Channel Management, a private business consulting and investing firm. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Brookfield Special Situations Funds, a director and member of the Audit Committee of Coalspur Mines Ltd, a coal exploration and development company, and a director of Norbord Inc., an international producer of wood-based panels. |
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| | Mr. Williams has been the President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Corporation since joining Domtar on January 1, 2009. Mr. Williams served in senior executive positions for over eight years with SCA Packaging Ltd. and SCA Packaging Europe, Europe’s second largest producer of containerboard paper used for the manufacturing of corrugated box products, and served as President of SCA Packaging Europe, from 2005 to December 2008, where he assumed leadership over sales, marketing, finance, operations, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain and human resources. Prior to joining SCA Packaging, Mr. Williams held a number of increasingly senior positions in sales, marketing, management and operational roles, with Rexam PLC, Packaging Resources, Inc., Huhtamaki, Alberto Culver UK Ltd., and MARS Group. Mr. Williams is currently a director of Owens Corning, where he also serves as a member of the audit committee and finance committee. |
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