Jefferson Smurfit Corp. elects G. Thompson Hutton to board of directors

Business Wire, Dec 28, 1994

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 28, 1994--G. Thompson Hutton has been elected a director of Jefferson Smurfit Corporation (JSC).

Hutton is president and chief executive officer of Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS), an information services company based in Menlo Park, CA. RMS is a leading provider of software and advisory services to insurers, reinsurers and other financial institutions. The company has two offices in the U.S. and one in Asia.

Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey and Company, serving clients in transportation, forest products and insurance. Prior to that he was vice president of Marine Construction and Design Co.

He received a B.A. degree in economics and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA.

Jefferson Smurfit Corporation, headquartered in St. Louis, MO. is one of America's most broadly based paper, paperboard and packaging companies. It also is America's leading collector, recycler and marketer and exporter of recovered paper. JSC operates 151 mills and converting facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and employs approximately 16,600 people. JSC's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ national market under the symbol JJSC.

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