MeadWestvaco

MeadWestvaco Corporation’s board of directors elected James M. Kilts a director of the company. Kilts is a founding partner of Centerview Partners, NY, an investment banking firm. He previously served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Gillette Company, Boston, which joined with The Procter & Gamble Company last year in the largest merger ever in the consumer products sector. As a vice chairman of P&G, he then oversaw the consolidation of the Gillette and P&G businesses. Before joining Gillette, Kilts was president and chief executive officer of Nabisco, and prior to that he was head of Kraft Foods, and later, the worldwide food business of Altria. He started his career with General Foods Corporation.