Mike Coffey
CEO
RISI

Mike Coffey was appointed RISI's Chief Executive Officer in May of 2009. Prior to this appointment, Mike was COO for RISI and had been with the company for two years. Mike comes to RISI from CMP Media, a B2B information company he joined in 2003 where he played numerous roles in product development, technology, and acquisition evaluation/integration. Constantly seeking customer feedback and input, Mike is passionate about RISI's products and customers' uses of those products. An analytical thinker, he holds a bachelor's degree from Rensselaer in upstate New York.

James Rubright
Chairman and CEO
RockTenn

James A. Rubright is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RockTenn (NYSE:RKT), one of North America's leading manufacturers of paperboard, containerboard, consumer and corrugated packaging and merchandising displays. Before joining RockTenn as CEO in 1999, he served as Executive Vice President of Sonat, Inc., a diversified energy company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. At Sonat, he was the head of Sonat's interstate natural gas pipeline and energy services businesses. Prior to 1994, he was a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding.

Jim Rubright served in 2007 as Chairman of the board of the American Forest & Paper Association, the national trade association of the forest, pulp, paper, paperboard and wood products industry. He is a director of AGL Resources, Inc., an energy company, and Forestar Real Estate Group, Inc., a real estate and natural resources company. He received a B.A. degree from Yale College and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia Law School. Jim lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Mary, and their two boys, who are the youngest of his six children.

Greg Rudder
Editor, PPI Pulp & Paper Week
RISI

Greg Rudder is lead editor for PPI Pulp & Paper Week. He has covered US and export recovered paper for 15 years, containerboard for seven years, and newsprint for three years. A Pepperdine University graduate, he was a daily newspaper reporter for 12 years before joining PPI Pulp & Paper Week. He has interviewed 20 CEOs, and visited 35 mills and plants globally.

Donna Harman
CEO
American Forest & Paper Association

Donna Harman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), is recognized by industry leaders and policymakers alike as a leading expert on public policy concerning the forest products industry. As the industry’s voice on public policy at all levels of government, Harman works with AF&PA’s 165 members to advance policies that promote a strong and sustainable U.S. forest products industry in the global marketplace. Harman has spearheaded a robust industry effort to engage Members of Congress and U.S. agency officials to help them make informed decisions on laws and regulations important to the industry’s competitiveness, including: bioenergy mandates, climate change, increasing energy supply, tax policies, green procurement for wood and paper products, and recycling. In addition, Harman carries the industry messages to international arenas. Born in Elkhart, Kansas, Harman earned a bachelor’s degree in public affairs from Anderson University and a law degree from American University. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, the American Society of Association Executives, and the Society of American Foresters. She serves on the Board of Directors for the American Council for Capital Formation, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee. She also serves on the Corporate Advisory Council to the International Congressional Conservation Foundation.

Mark Wilde
Managing Director
Deutsche Bank

Mark Wilde has been a familiar figure in the sector for many years and is the senior analyst at Deutsche Bank covering the paper and forest products sector. Over the last decade, he has been recognized as one of the sector's best stock pickers. Mark is no stranger to rankings and he appears regularly on investment and financial website listings as a top ranked analyst for the forest products industry. He is also a regular member of Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team and has been ranked #2 in the Greenwich Survey for paper and packaging.

Philippe (Phil) Riebel
President, Two Sides U.S., Inc.
President, P. Riebel Consulting

Phil is a senior sustainability and environmental advisor to the global forest products supply chain. His current customers include pulp and paper companies, industry trade organizations, publishers, retailers, printers, paper merchants and brokers.

One of Phil's current initiatives is the start-up and operation of Two Sides U.S. Inc., a non-profit that promotes the responsible use of print and paper, as well as the unique sustainability features of print and paper. Two Sides operates in 12 countries and has over 1,000 members, and is currently a well-know entity in Europe.

Phil has over 23 years of International experience acquired in senior management positions in industry and consulting and has participated in numerous environmental projects related to the forest products industry worldwide. Prior to starting his latest consulting venture in 2010, Phil was Vice-President, Environmental Affairs for the UPM-Kymmene Corporation in Helsinki, Finland where he was responsible for developing the global environmental strategy and coordinating a team of professional staff working in sustainable forestry and sourcing, environmental performance of production units, market environmental support and overall environmental services.

Over the years, Phil has been a member of the Direct Marketing Association Environment and Social Responsibility Committee, the Magazine Publishers Association Environmental Task Force, the Forest Products Association of Canada Market Acceptance Committee, and Sustainability 50. Phil has published extensively on the sustainability and environmental topics related to the forest products sector. Phil received his Bachelor and Master's of Science degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Frank Locantore
Director
Green America Better Paper Project

Frank Locantore directs the Green America Better Paper Project (www.BetterPaper.org) and works to protect forests, climate, and communities by assisting magazine publishers’ efforts to create and implement environmentally responsible paper use practices. The Better Paper Project provides publishers with direct assistance, promotes their achievements through the
Aveda Environmental Awards, as well as through innovative promotions at retails stores such as Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, and Hastings Books and Music, and online at Amazon.com and MagazineYellowPages.com that have helped magazines increase their newsstand sales between 20-114%. Working with mills, printers, and advertisers, the Better Paper Project has helped over 150 large and small magazines begin and continue using environmentally responsible paper. Named in 2007 as one of the top industry influencers on the Folio: 40 list, Frank and the Better Paper Project provide the ecological, social, and business reasons for using environmentally responsible paper and have been cited in New YorkTimes, PBS’s Media Shift, CNN/Fortune, Folio magazine, E magazine, Publishing Executive, AdAge, Grist, and Ecorazzi among other TV, radio, and print stories.

In 2002, Locantore helped to found the Environmental Paper Network (www.environmentalpaper.org) that wrote A Common Vision for Transforming the Pulp and Paper Industry – currently signed by over one hundred organizations world-wide, and he continues as a member of their Steering Committee.

Locantore has worked for Green America for over 10 years and has been in the non-profit field for over 20 years working in both the US and Canada.

Kathy Abusow
President & CEO
Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.

Kathy Abusow is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.(SFI®), a fully independent, non-profit organization. The SFI® program is a comprehensive and rigorous sustainable forestry certification standard that covers more than 160 million certified acres (over 65 million ha.) in the U.S. and Canada and includes over 800 organizations that use the SFI forest certification, chain of custody and fiber sourcing standard or are SFI on-product label users.

In her leadership role at SFI, Kathy works with government organizations, small or large companies as well as conservation groups to promote forest certification along the entire supply chain. Previously, Kathy managed a forest certification and market acceptance consultancy where she worked with government, trade organizations, and corporations around the world on marketplace issues such as procurement policy design, and green building rating tool’s acceptance of wood and certified products. Over the past 15 years, Kathy has authored numerous publications related to forest certification and responsible procurement and is internationally respected for her technical expertise on forest certification standards including SFI, CSA, FSC and PEFC.

She earned an undergraduate degree from McGill University with studies at Leningrad State University in Russia and a M.A. from Harvard University in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, with a concentration in sustainable development and natural resources.

Steve Silver
President & CEO
FutureMark Paper

Steve Silver is President and CEO of FutureMark Paper, a paper manufacturer making the highest recycled-content coated paper in North America. Under Steve’s leadership, FutureMark has pioneered practices to further lower the environmental impact of paper production, and the company has become a magnet for many of the world’s most environmentally discerning publishers, retailers and consumer products manufacturers.

Steve has more than two decades’ experience leading business transformations that improve environmental stewardship while increasing sales and profits. Before joining FutureMark, Steve served as President of the U.S. division of Teknion, a major manufacturer of high-end office furniture. Steve led Teknion’s U.S. subsidiary toward environmentally sustainable sourcing and manufacturing and helped large corporate customers adapt their office design to LEED standards, culminating in a business strategy that nearly doubled the company’s revenues in less than four years.

Prior to Teknion, Steve was President and CEO of Azon Corp., a manufacturer of coated paper and film, and president of the North American operations of the Ilford Photo division of International Paper.

Ian Hanna
Director
Forest Stewardship Council U.S.

Ian Hanna is Director of Business Development at the Forest Stewardship Council U.S., where he brings a perspective that spans the forest products supply chain.

Trained as a forest ecologist, his work has included the founding of one of the first FSC-certified companies in the Pacific Northwest, supply chain and market development across a broad spectrum of forest related industries, wood and paper policy implementation among the Fortune 500, and implementation of family forest certification programs, a key to FSC growth in the U.S.

Mr. Hanna currently leads FSC-US partnership development, oversees supply development programs, and is highly engaged in the expansion and coordination of FSC’s Global Network.

Phil Gresh
Senior Paper and Packaging Equity Research Analyst
JP Morgan

Phil Gresh is the senior paper and packaging equity research analyst at JPMorgan, which he started covering in 2010. Prior to this, he covered both the Machinery and Multi-Industry sectors for three years apiece.

Phil holds his BBA from the University of Michigan, his MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and is a CFA Charterholder.

William (Bill) Hoffmann
Managing Director and Senior High Yield Analyst
RBC Capital Markets

Bill is currently a Managing Director and Senior High Yield Analyst for RBC Capital Markets. He has been a High Yield Research Analyst for over 15 years covering primarily Chemicals, Paper, Packaging and Forest Products Companies as well as general industrials.

Bill has been consistently ranked by “Institutional Investor Magazine to the “All American Fixed Income Research Analyst Team” for over 10 years and in multiple industry sectors. Prior to RBC, Bill spent 10 years with UBS Investment Bank, also as a Senior High Yield Analyst. He started his finance career in with Toronto Dominion Bank in Corporate Finance, Corporate Banking and ultimately in High Yield Research.

Prior to getting an MBA at Cornell University, Bill spent 3 years as an Engineer for the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Technologies. He received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at Lehigh University, 1982.

Mark A. Kennedy
Paper and Forest Products Analyst
CIBC World Markets Inc.

Mark joined CIBC in June 2011 and is focused on the Paper and Forest Products sectors.
He brings 20 years of finance and investment experience, including seven years as forest
products analyst for another major financial institution and six years in institutional equity
sales.

More recently, Mr. Kennedy was for the past four years Director of Corporate Development
and Chief Financial Officer for a privately held clean technology company in Calgary. Mr.
Kennedy holds an MBA from York University and an HBBA from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Chung-Li Lee
Director of International Supply Chain
Boise Inc.

Chung-Li Lee, Director of International Supply Chain of Boise Inc., was born and educated in Taiwan for his college degree in Chemistry. He has, subsequently, earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis in 1981. Chung-Li has also completed his EMBA at Harvard University in 1999 and received many prestigious academic and industrial awards, e.g., Izaak Walton Killam Fellowship, IH Weldon Medal Award.

In his career life, he has worked for Paprican, Currently FPInnovations, in Canada for about 8 years before joining Boise for the past 17 years. He has in-depth understanding of the pulp and paper Industry in both NA and Asia.

Gordon Jones
Chairman, President and CEO
Clearwater Paper Corporation

Gordon Jones was hired as the president and chief executive officer for Potlatch Corporation’s spin-off of Clearwater Paper on July 1, 2008. Clearwater Paper was officially launched (NYSE: CLW) with Mr. Jones serving as president and CEO on December 16, 2008, and he was named chairman of the board in May 2010.

After serving in the U.S. Army, Jones began his career in the paper towel and tissue business at Procter and Gamble. Since then, he has accrued more than 30 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry, serving in such roles as president, chief executive officer, and director for Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. as well as a number of executive positions with Smurfit-Stone and predecessor companies, including vice president and executive officer of sales and marketing and senior vice president, where he was responsible for 85 container plants with $3 billion in sales annually.

Jones earned his Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Nebraska and a Master of Science in business administration from Boston University.

Bob Cleaves
President
Biomass Power Association

Founded in 1999, BPA is the nation’s leading voice for biomass to electricity, representing over 2,000 MW of installed capacity. BPA members include sawmills, paper companies, property owners, service providers, and independent power producers, doing business in over 20 states and contributing nearly $1 billion to the national economy. BPA maintains an active presence in Washington, and concentrates on federal tax and energy policy to promote the use of woody biomass for electricity use.

Bob started his legal career at the United States Department of Justice, Honors Program. While in private practice, he represented the pulp and paper industry and other natural resource-based industries. In 1999, he left the law to focus on renewable energy and for many years managed the nation’s largest renewable energy credit portfolio.

He is on the Board of the Maine Audubon, and Greater Portland Landmarks. Previously, he served on the Massachusetts Biomass Working Group, the GIS Working Group, and the PJM GATS Working Group.

Bob is a frequent lecturer on renewable energy. His knowledge and experience in both the development process and renewable markets is well known throughout the industry.

Kelly Shotbolt
President & CEO
Flakeboard Company Limited

Graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick in 1979 and began his career with Flakeboard immediately thereafter. Has held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility at Flakeboard before becoming President in 1993.

Led the transition from a commodity producer of raw panels to an integrated manufacturer of decorative panels. Today, Flakeboard is a recognized leader in this field.

Developed a business plan with Georgia-Pacific to joint venture two composite panel mills in Ontario and after a successful 12 year partnership acquired Georgia-Pacific’s interest in 2005.

Past President of the Canadian Particleboard Association and successfully coordinated the amalgamation with the counterpart association in the United States. In 2001 became the Chairman of the North American Composite Panel Association.

In 1999 was the recipient of the University of New Brunswick Business Achievement Award presented for business excellence and community support. In 2006 acquired Weyerhaeuser’s composite panel business. With this acquisition Flakeboard has become North America’s largest producer of particleboard and MDF.

Hanmin Dong
President and Director
Guangxi Lee & Man Forestry Technology Limited (GLMF), RMS China Investment

Hanmin is leading the daily operations of GLMF and overseeing all RMS investment activities in China. Working closely with the RMS investment team, Hanmin develops and executes timberland acquisition and management strategies in China’s fast-growing forest plantations.

Hanmin has a diverse career in technical research, business development, and management. Previously, Hanmin spent 18 years with International Paper in technical research, China business management, and forest resource due diligence in Asia Pacific Region.

Hanmin is a Chinese native and obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Central China Agricultural University in Wuhan. He came to North America in 1983 and completed a Master’s degree at University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. at Texas A&M University.

George Staphos
Managing Director, Sr. Research Analyst, North American Paper/Forest & Packaging
Co-sector Head, Industrials & Materials
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch

George Staphos is Bank of America Merrill Lynch's senior paper/forest and packaging equity research analyst for North America and is also co-sector head of the US industrials and materials research team and a member of the department's "US 1" stock list committee. Mr. Staphos has 20 years of experience as a research analyst covering packaging, paper & forest products, and packaged foods stocks.

He has been voted a member of the financial industry's well-respected Institutional Investor All-America Research Team for 18 consecutive years through 2010 by portfolio managers and buyside analysts who invest in packaging and paper stocks, including 11 No. 1 rankings in the past 12 years. Mr. Staphos' past experience includes management and analyst positions at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney and PaineWebber.

Mr. Staphos earned his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School in 1992 and B.S. in Management & Marketing from New York University in 1987.

Ward Hubbell
President
Green Building Initiative

Since helping to establish the Green Building Initiative in 2004, Hubbell has guided its evolution into a national organization promoting green building approaches in dozens of major U.S. markets across the country. Under his leadership, the GBI became the first green building organization to be certified as a standards developer by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and recently established its proprietary tool, the Green Globes environmental assessment and rating system for commercial buildings, as an official ANSI standard.

For nearly two decades, Ward Hubbell has been a leading communicator and strategic adviser in the natural resources field, serving in a range of capacities in the public and private sectors. Hubbell also spent ten years as a communications executive in Washington, DC, working primarily in the areas of natural resources, environmental energy, transportation and health and safety policy.

A native of Mississippi, Hubbell and his family reside in the Portland area, where he is very involved in the Oregon business community. Recently, he has served on the boards of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, Oregon Business Association and SOLV, one of the nation's largest volunteer networks devoted to environmental restoration and community building. He is a graduate of Mississippi State University and Wake Forest University.

Mark Emmerson
CEO
Sierra Pacific Industries

Mark Emmerson is Chief Financial Officer and is a member of the Board of Directors of Sierra Pacific Industries, one of the nations' leading lumber, millwork, and window manufacturers headquartered in Redding, California.

Mark is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and puts his formal training as a CPA to full use in leading the Company’s accounting and financial activities. Mark also has lumber manufacturing experience, having managed the construction phase and later operations of the Anderson sawmill complex. Mark is a member of the Board of Directors for the California Forestry Association, the President’s Advisory Commission for the University of California, and has served in various capacities on both the American Forest and Paper Association and the American Forest Foundation.

The approximately 1,850,000 acres of industrial forest land are the backbone of the Company’s sawmills, millwork and window manufacturing facilities, and electrical co-generation plants which now employ approximately 3,500 people throughout California and Washington. In spite of the Company’s tremendous growth, the basic principles of hard work and a commitment to a family atmosphere among employees is a dominant factor in day-to-day operations.

Mark Weintraub
Senior Vice President
The Buckingham Research Group

Mark has covered the paper and forest products industry for more than 10 years, joining Buckingham in June 2003. He was previously at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and First Manhattan Inc. His coverage also extends to land-rich companies, including the timber REITs, as well as other building products manufacturers. Top-ranked for Paper & Forest Products in Institutional Investor’s “Best of the Boutiques and Regional Firms”. Named multiple times as a Best on the Street analyst by The Wall Street Journal including the top rank for General Industrials in 2010.

Anne Rahikainen
Director, Bioenergy Services
RISI

Anne Rahikainen has 14 years of consulting experience in the forests products industry and wood biomass consuming bioenergy sectors with experience both in North America and Western Europe. Her areas of expertise are market and policy research, market and economic analysis, biomass fuel supply and due diligence studies, locating manufacturing sites and development of company strategy and business plans. During her career, Anne has managed numerous studies to investigate investment opportunities in the bioenergy sector and assisted companies to make optimal investment decisions. Her clients have included major utilities, biofuels producers, pellet manufacturers, trading companies, and investors. As the Director of Bioenergy Services at RISI, her role is to develop information and consulting services for the Bioenergy Industry in North America and internationally. Anne has a BC in Forest Management from University of Helsinki, MS in Forest Products Marketing from University of Washington, and an Executive MBA from Cornell University.

Will Mies
Editorial Director
RISI

Will Mies is Editorial Director of RISI's newsletters, PPI Pulp & Paper Week and PPI Latin America, and related www.risi.com online news.

He coordinates a team of seven news editors in San Francisco and Sao Paulo, collecting news on the pulp and paper industry. In addition, he covers the containerboard and kraft paper market for PPI Pulp & Paper Week.

After joining Miller Freeman in 1974, he served as editor and publisher of Pulp & Paper Week for nearly 20 years from its launch in 1979. From 1996-2000 he served as vice president of Miller Freeman's paper publishing group. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds a M.A. in journalism from Stanford University.

John Maine
Vice President, Graphic Paper
RISI

John is a co-founder of RISI and has 30 years of experience in the paper industry and developed the graphic paper forecasting and analysis service at RISI. He is a recognized industry expert for printing and writing paper markets, prices, analysis, and forecasts. John is a regular speaker and consultant for most major producers worldwide as well as various end-user groups including insert and catalog publishers, magazine publishers, book publishers, paper merchants and brokers, and major commercial printers. He collects industry prices monthly, which are used by buyers and sellers in settling contract prices. John manages all of the world newsprint and printing and writing analysis and forecasts with regional economists located in Helsinki, Brussels, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo. His published reports include the monthly Paper Trader, World Coated Paper Supply: A risk assessment of capacity closures; World Graphic Paper Forecast; World Graphic Paper Capacity; North American Graphic Paper Forecast; and numerous single and multi-client studies.

John holds a Master of Science degree in Forest Economics with distinction from Virginia Tech. He resides in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife and three children.

Kurt Schaefer
Vice President, Fiber
RISI

Kurt heads up RISI's analysis of the pulp and recovered paper segments of the industry. His primary responsibilities are focused on the area of papergrade pulp. He publishes a monthly commentary and forecast on the world pulp market, World Pulp Monthly. He also produces RISI’s long-term pulp forecasts, focusing on variables such as pulp consumption, capacity, production, production costs, and pricing. In 2009, Kurt helped to develop RISI's Outlook for Global Recovered Paper Markets, a successful multi-client study. In 2010, he is leading a team of RISI analysts and economists doing a multi-client study of China's fiber markets. Just prior to joining RISI, Kurt was Director of Pulp & Paper Forecaster. As the sole economist working on Forecaster, he was responsible for forecasting prices and market conditions across all of the major grades of paper and paperboard in North America. His work on Forecaster included developing detailed end-user driven demand models for the key grades, including newsprint, coated papers, and containerboard. He also directed a number of projects, including a major long-term study of global newsprint markets. In 1995, he received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He jointed RISI in January, 1996.

Ken Waghorne
Vice President, Packaging
RISI

Ken has specialized in the paper packaging markets for RISI since 1983. He provides detailed monthly and quarterly analysis and forecasts of the North American paper packaging markets as well as single- and multi-client studies. He developed RISI's international containerboard model as well as the paper packaging models for the Latin American markets. He also produces the RISI end-use market analysis for the Paperboard Packaging Council’s Trends Report on the US folding carton industry. Ken also manages RISI's global packaging economic team, and directs the incorporation of the forecasts from North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America into RISI's global reports.

Ken holds a Master of Science degree in Forest Economics from Virginia Tech and his Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from LSU.

Esko Uutela
Principal, Tissue
RISI

Esko Uutela was born in Finland and has worked as a pulp and paper industry consultant for his whole professional career of more than 30 years. He graduated from the Helsinki School of Economics (Marketing) in 1976 and from the University of Helsinki (Faculty of Forestry) in 1979. Since 1991 he is residing in Germany.

After working for close to 18 years for a large forest industry consulting company in Helsinki and Munich, Esko decided to establish his own forest industry consulting company EU Consulting in Starnberg, close to Munich in Germany in August 1994. EU Consulting increasingly specialized in offering consulting services for two sectors: the tissue and recycled fiber businesses. In March 2007, RISI acquired EU Consulting.

Esko has carried out numerous private client projects, as well as published regularly worldwide, comprehensive multi-client studies on tissue business developments and global recycled fiber markets. He is now fully integrated with RISI's team of economists and responsible for all forecasts and market analyses related to the tissue sector. He is also the chief editor of RISI's tissue multi-client reports, including Outlook for World Tissue Business (published annually), World Tissue Business Monitor (quarterly) and US Tissue Monthly Data. In addition, Esko's long consulting experience with deep business and industry understanding has substantially extended RISI's capabilities to carry out comprehensive private client studies in the tissue and recovered paper sectors.

Hannah Zhao
Economist, Recovered Paper
RISI

Hannah Zhao Joined RISI in 2009 as an economist. Her responsibilities at RISI are focused on the area of world recovered paper and Chinese pulp market. She is in the process of taking over responsibilities of recovered paper analysis of RISI. She contributes to the monthly commentary, quarterly forecast and long-term forecast on the world recovered paper market.

Hannah holds a Master of Science degree in Resource Economics from University of Rhode Island, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Beijing Normal University, China.

Dave Fortin
Economist, Fiber
RISI

David Fortin has been with RISI for four years focusing on the global wood pulp market. His responsibilities include publishing the World Market Pulp Capacity Report and World Pulp Annual Historical data as well as assisting with RISI’s World Pulp Monthly and World Pulp and Recovered Paper Forecast. He recently earned a master’s degree in international economics and finance from the International Business School at Brandeis University and has a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Derek Mahlburg
Economist, Graphic Paper
RISI

Derek Mahlburg is an economist for the RISI North American graphic paper service, assisting with the North American forecasts and commentaries. His responsibilities include maintaining the North America and World Capacity Reports, and he has played a key role in various studies.

Derek completed his undergraduate education at the University of Kansas, where he majored in Economics, and holds a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Missouri.

Surya Raina
Vice President, Mill Intelligence, Pulp & Paper Division
RISI

Surya Raina is Vice President of Mill Intelligence for RISI. Surya is a Chemical Engineer with over 30 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry, including 15 years of operational experience in the Asian pulp and paper industry. His career in mill operations included working at Ballarpur industries, India and Phoenix pulp and paper, Thailand. Prior to joining RISI, he spent eight years working as a consultant with Jacobs Sirrine Consultants and Simon Consulting group.

Surya specializes in cost benchmarking and is well versed in the cost structure of pulp and paper board grades across different world regions. He has also been actively involved in due diligence, risk and optimization studies. Surya has recently been involved in leading a major product launch at RISI, which involved developing the company's new web based cost benchmarking service. Surya leads a team of engineers based in North America, Asia and Europe.

Ryan Burgess
Benchmarking Analyst
RISI

Ryan calculates cost benchmark data for all North American liner and medium mills and Latin American liner, medium and coated recycled board mills, as well as administers the new Analytical Cornerstone 4.0 cost benchmarking application. Ryan joined RISI with more than ten years of paper mill experience having worked for Temple Inland and Gaylord Container Corporation as a Process Engineer and shift Process manager. He holds a Bachelor degree in Pulp and Paper Science and Technology with a minor in Economics from North Carolina State University.

Mike Jones
Director, Cost Benchmarking Packaging and Tissue
RISI

Mike Jones has worked for RISI for eight years. Prior to that he worked eight years for Jacobs Consultancy (Jacobs-Sirrine Consultants) until RISI acquired the benchmarking group in 2002. He focuses on benchmarking competitive cost studies for linerboard, corrugating medium, kraft packaging, bleached board, and retail and commercial tissue. He has a total of sixteen years benchmarking experience in a range of grades and geographies. Prior to that, Mike worked fifteen years for International Paper. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Jesse Neese
Technical Service Manager, Mill Intelligence
RISI

Jesse Neese joined RISI's Mill Intelligence team in January of 2006 as a Senior Product Manager and Analytical Engineer to develop the cost models for RISI's Wood and Timber Cost Benchmarking portfolio of products. In May of 2010, Jesse assumed the responsibilities of Technical Service Manager to focus on training and direct customer support for RISI's Mill Intelligence customers.

Prior to joining RISI, Jesse worked in the wood adhesives industry for nine years in various sales and technical support related roles.

Jesse has a Master of Business Administration degree from Louisiana Tech University, a Master of Science degree in Wood Science and Engineering from Oregon State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Bill Studstill
Director, Cost Benchmarking, Graphic Papers
RISI

Bill Studstill serves as Director, Graphic Papers Benchmarking at RISI. His work focuses on cost benchmarking for graphic papers including coated & uncoated, woodfree and mechanical grades.

Prior to joining RISI in 2002, Bill worked for Jacobs Consultancy. In addition to multi-client and single client benchmarking studies, consulting projects included due diligence, strategic assessment and mill optimization. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in management.

Ray Barbee
Senior Vice President, Wood, Timber & Biomass
RISI

Ray Barbee was in born and reared near Charlotte, North Carolina. He has an Undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a MBA from USC in Columbia, SC. Ray has been in the forest products industry for 34 years having held executive officer level positions in sales and marketing with Boise Cascade, Louisiana Pacific, and Roseburg Forest Products in pulp, paper, and wood products: 20 years with Boise Cascade in pulp and paper; 4 years with Louisiana in wood products; and 10 years Roseburg in wood products. He has extensive industry affiliations.

Ray recently joined RISI in July 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager for Wood, Timber, and Biomass. He is married with two adult children. Other than work, Ray enjoys biking, running, reading and very little yard work.

Bob Flynn
Director, International Timber
RISI

Robert (Bob) Flynn is Director, International Timber for RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. Bob has more than 30 years experience in the forest industry, including 9 years as a forester for Champion International in Oregon. He has spent the past 20+ years as a consultant to the industry, with a focus on analysis of timber supply and demand trends outside of North America; international trade of logs, woodchips, and biomass; and trends in international timberland investment. He joined RISI in April 2006, and has published two reports on China's timber supply and demand; a global comparison of planted forest economics and investment attractiveness for tree farm development; a profile of India’s forest products industry; an analysis of the impact of Russia's log export tax on Asian log markets; annual reports on international trade in woodchips and biomass; and most recently he published a report on South American plantation forestry and bioenergy markets. He holds a BA degree in geography from the University of Texas, a BS degree in forest management from Northern Arizona University and an MS in economics from the University of Oregon.

Bernard Fuller
Principal Economist, Wood Panels
RISI

Bernard Fuller is a founding member of RISI, specializing in the end-use markets for wood products (wood-based panels and lumber). Over the past quarter century, Bernard has led analysis on the panelboard (softwood plywood, oriented strandboard, medium density fibreboard and particleboard) and treated wood products markets. Bernard has been with RISI from 1985 to present, most recently contributing to RISI's monthly and quarterly forecasts for panel, engineered wood products and lumber markets and has recently returned to the role full time.

Education:
BA in Economic and Social History, University of Nottingham, England MA in U.S. Economic History, University of Wisconsin Completed requirements for Ph.D., except dissertation, in U.S. Economic History, State University of New York at Binghamton.

Bob Berg
Principal Economist, Lumber
RISI

Bob Berg has spent over 25 years following the North American solid wood markets, specializing in price forecasting. Bob is a founding member of RISI and built many of its solid wood and engineered lumber models along with segments of the timber and panel models. During his tenure from 1985 to 2007, Bob mentored many of the economists following the North American lumber markets. In 2007 he left RISI to pursue other wood market opportunities, but returned to RISI in 2009.

Peter Barynin
Principal Economist, Timber
RISI

Peter Barynin recently rejoined RISI as Principal Timber Economist, after previously holding the title of Director of the North American Timber Forecasting Service at RISI, and has over 15 years of experience as a forest industry economist. Most recently, Peter was founder and Chief Economist for Resource Vision Inc., which conducts research and analysis on global wood fiber issues and the intricacies of the timber markets.

Wade Camp
Senior Economist
RISI

Wade's career thus far spans three decades and multiple roles from production to economic modeling, working for companies and associations such as International Paper, Georgia Pacific, SFPA and most recently SLMA. A veteran of the industry, he has been involved in many facets of today's modern forestry businesses from strategic planning, M&A and distribution to production, supply-chain management and forecasting. Wade has a Bachelor's degree in Forestry from Purdue, a Master's degree from Duke University and a MBA from the University of Dallas.

Andrea Desaulniers
Research Economist, Wood Products
RISI

Andrea Desaulniers is an economist in the RISI Wood and Timber group. Andrea contributes to the Lumber and Wood Panels commentaries and forecasts, assists in data management, oversees data quality control in addition to conducting RISI’s annual cost & capacity surveys. Andrea joined RISI in July 2010 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of Rhode Island.

Crystal Gauvin
Senior Economist, Wood Products
RISI

Crystal Gauvin joined RISI in May 2008, and has worked as part of the economic analysis team in a variety of different product areas, most recently focusing on wood products. In addition to contributing to both the Lumber and Wood Panels forecasts, she is currently co-author for the Lumber, Structural Panel and PB/MDF Monthly Commentaries. Her primary responsibilities include collecting, analyzing, and communicating data to clients in the wood products industry.

Crystal holds her Master of Science degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Rhode Island and her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Seth Walker
Associate Bioenergy Economist, Bioenergy
RISI

Seth Walker is an Associate Bioenergy Economist at RISI, he joined RISI in 2010. Seth’s responsibilities include RISI’s North American Bioenergy Forecast and Bioenergy Service quarterly reports. Seth has also developed and initiated the RISI and PFI Pellet Manufacturing Survey, the first of its kind in North America. As a consultant at RISI, he has conducted fiber supply and site selection studies for the forest products and bioenergy industries. Seth also covers timber market pricing in the US South and Pacific Northwest with RISI’s Timber Transaction Price Service and Log Lines delivered log price report.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Resource Economics and Commerce from the University of Rhode Island and Master of Science in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, also from URI.