Apr 04, 2008. /Lesprom.com/. NewPage announced that Barry Nelson has joined the company's senior leadership team effective April 1, 2008, as senior vice president, sales. In this position, Mr. Nelson will be responsible for leading the company's strategic and tactical sales initiatives. Mr. Nelson has been with NewPage since the inception of the company. Prior to this position, Mr. Nelson was working as vice president of printing sales, leading the sales organizations responsible for merchants, national accounts, publication printers and major cataloguers. He has more than 20 years of experience in sales, order management and sales leadership. NewPage Corporation is the largest printing paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $4.5 billion in pro forma net sales for the year ended December 31, 2007. The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers.