AbitibiBowater Announces New Board of Directors for Restructured Company

Richard Garneau (Montreal, QC) has been a director of AbitibiBowater since June 2010. Mr. Garneau most recently served as President and CEO of Catalyst Paper Corporation. Prior to his tenure at Catalyst, Mr. Garneau was Executive Vice President, Operations at Domtar. He also held a variety of roles at Norampac, Copernic.com, Future Electronics, St. Laurent Paperboard, Finlay Forest Industries and Donohue Inc.