Aug 09, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. Sappi Limited, the global pulp and paper group, announced on August 8 that Mark Thompson has been appointed as CFO with immediate effect and will join the Sappi Limited board as an executive director. Mark Richard Thompson (54) has been with Sappi since 1999 as group legal counsel. 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 Senbank. Sappi chairman, Eugene van As, said: "Mark Thompson brings an intimate knowledge and understanding of Sappi's global business and the broad finance function, and will, I am sure, play an important role in developing the group's future profitability." Sappi is the world's leading producer of coated woodfree paper with production facilities in nine countries on four continents -- Europe, North America, Asia (China) and Africa, sales offices on five continents and customers in over 100 countries worldwide.