Sappi is a

global diversified wood fibre company. It focusses on providing dissolving

pulp, packaging and speciality papers, graphic papers as well as biomaterials

and biochemicals to their direct and indirect customer base across more than

150 countries. Sappi was founded in 1936 in South Africa to serve South African

consumers with locally produced paper. They have a tradition of innovating and

developing new products to meet local demand for newsprint, graphic papers

(paper used for communication purposes that includes printing and writing

papers), packaging papers used to protect their customers’ products

(especially in the agricultural sector) and specialty papers used in the

convenience food, confectionery, cosmetic and luxury markets, and tissue

paper for household, medical and industrial use in the Southern Africa

region. Alex Thiel, Sappi’s CEO at the time, stated in an interview with Forbes

magazine that “Sappi strives for ‘intentional evolution’ and wants to be a

diversified wood fibre group targeting a substantial increase in our earnings”.

Alex Thiel can

be classified as a _____ level manager.