KapStone Elects Paull as Director

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KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp., Northbrook, Ill., USA, has elected Matthew H. Paull as a director of the company. Paull was elected as a Class C director with a term expiring in 2012. He was senior executive VP and CFO of McDonald's Corp. from July 2001 until he retired from that position in January 2008. He was named to Best Buy Co. board of directors in September 2003 and in June 2010 was elected the lead independent director of the Best Buy board.

Paull also serves as an advisory director of Pershing Square Capital and on the Advisory Board of the One Acre Fund, a charity focused on improving the productivity of family farms in Africa. Previously he served as a board member of the Loyola Ronald McDonald House and as an advisory council member for the Federal Reserve Board of Chicago.

KapStone paper and Packaging is a North American producer of unbleached kraft paper products and linerboard. It is the parent company of KapStone Kraft Paper Corp. which operates paper mills in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and North Charleston, S.C., a lumber mill in Summerville, S.C., and five chipping mills in South Carolina.