Mervyn Nair

General Manager Finance - Shared Services at Sappi

Mervyn Nair has extensive experience in finance and risk management, currently serving as General Manager Finance - Shared Services at Sappi Southern Africa Limited since January 1997. In this role, Mervyn oversees key functions such as the securitisation program and the global credit insurance program, and chairs the Group Credit Committee while coordinating credit risk across various regions including Europe, Hong Kong, North America, and South Africa. Previous positions at Sappi include Financial Risk Manager and Global Credit Risk Coordinator, where responsibilities included heading credit risk initiatives, and Management Accountant, focusing on financial consolidation, forecasts, and reporting. Mervyn also gained valuable experience as Group Treasury Reporting Manager at Sappi International Brussels from 2003 to 2006, managing captive insurance and group treasury reporting. Mervyn holds a qualification from the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika.

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Johannesburg, South Africa

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Sappi Limited is a woodfiber company focused on providing graphic/printing papers, packaging and specialty papers, dissolving wood pulp (DWP), as well as products in adjacent fields, including nanocellulose and lignosulfonate. The Company's segments include North America, Europe and Southern Africa. Its range of graphic paper products is used by printers in the production of books, brochures, magazines, catalogues, direct mail and various other print applications; packaging and specialty papers are used in the manufacture of such products as soup sachets, carry bags, cosmetic and confectionery packaging, boxes for agricultural products for export, tissue wadding for household tissue products and casting release papers used by suppliers to the fashion, textiles, automobile and household industries, and DWP products are used around the world by converters to create viscose fiber for clothing and textiles, pharmaceutical products, as well as a range of consumer and household products.


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