®

Douglas K. Cooper joined the Douglas K. Cooper NewPage senior leadership team Vice President, in November 2005 as vice president, General Counsel and Secretary general counsel and secretary. In this position, Mr. Cooper is responsible for leading corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives, advising senior leaders on operational issues, ABOUT NEWPAGE CORPORATION managing the legal function and overseeing outside counsel work. He also leads the corporate compliance program, participates

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, in business transactions and negotiates critical contracts. NewPage Corporation is the largest printing paper manufacturer in North Prior to joining NewPage, Mr. Cooper was a business attorney for America, based on production capacity with more than $4.3 billion in net sales. Arent Fox PLLC in Novi, . The company’s product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Cooper was a senior vice president of coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered and specialty papers. law for GDX Automotive in Farmington Hills, Michigan. From These papers are used for corporate 1997 to 2001, he served as executive vice president, general collateral, commercial printing, magazines, counsel and secretary for Peregrine Incorporated. He was also catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, packaging applications and direct employed by Leaseway Transportation Corp. in Beachwood, Ohio, mail advertising. as vice president of operations law. He joined Leaseway in 1976 NewPage owns paper mills located in and held positions of increasing responsibility during his tenure , , , Michigan, with the company. , and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately Mr. Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State 5.5 million tons of paper, including University and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina 4.3 million tons of coated paper, 920,000 tons of uncoated paper and School of Law. 300,000 tons of specialty paper, as well as 3.2 million tons of pulp. NewPage also operates three converting operations in Chillicothe, Ohio; Luke, Maryland; and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.

For additional information, visit the company’s Web site at www.NewPageCorp.com

©2008 NewPage Corporation January 2008