NewPage Names Buchenroth Controller, Chief Accounting Officer

NewPage Holdings Inc., Miamisburg, Ohio, USA, this week announced that Patrick Buchenroth has accepted the position of controller and chief accounting officer for NewPage Holdings Inc. and NewPage Corp. His new position becomes effective February 25.

From May 2012 through last month (January), Buchenroth served as SVP of finance at ACCO Brands Corp., a global supplier of branded office products, following the company's acquisition of the Consumer and Office Products Division of MeadWestvaco Corp. Prior to the acquisition, from August 2005 through April 2012, he served as CFO for MeadWestvaco's Consumer and Office Products Division. In 2005, he was part of a team that orchestrated the sale of MeadWestvaco's Paper Division to form NewPage Corp. Prior to these roles Buchenroth was an audit partner for Deloitte & Touche, a public accounting firm.

Buchenroth is a CPA and a graduate of Wright State University with a double major in Accountancy and Finance. He is also the treasurer of the United Way of the Greater Dayton, Ohio, area.

NewPage is a producer of printing and specialty papers with $3.5 billion in net sales for 2011. The company owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, with a total annual production capacity of approximately 3.5 million tons of paper.

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