2010 SEMINAR SPEAKER BIOS

Rod Young
Chief Economic Advisor
RISI

Rod Young started modeling and forecasting in the pulp and paper industry in 1977. Since then, his work in international pulp and paper markets has received worldwide recognition.

In March 2005, he became President and CEO of Paperloop, which was later renamed RISI in 2006. Rod Young has remained an active contributor to RISI's forecasts since stepping down as RISI's CEO and being named Chairman in 2007. Rod, a founding member of RISI, has 32 years of experience tracking and reporting on the global pulp and paper markets. In 2009, Rod took on responsibility for ensuring that all RISI's economic analysis meets or exceeds the industry's expectation for excellence and accuracy when he took on the role of RISI's Chief Economic Advisor.

Rod received a Master of Science degree in Forestry Economics from Virginia Polytechnical Institute in 1977 and also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry from Michigan State University.

José Honório
CEO
Grupo Portucel Soporcel

Graduate in Economics from Coimbra University. In addition to the position of Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Portucel Soporcel group, he is also a Board member and a member of the Executive Committee of Semapa - Sociedade de Investimento e Gestão SGPS, SA. and a Board member of Secil - Companhia Geral de Cal e Cimento, SA, CMP - Cimentos Maceira e Pataias, SA, Secil Investimentos SGPS, SA, CIMO - Gestão de Participações SGPS, SA, Seinpart - Participações SGPS, SA, Ciminpart - Investimentos e Participações SGPS, SA, Longapar SGPS, SA, Betopal, SL, Semapa Inversiones, SL, Parsecil, SL, CMPartin - Inversiones y Participaciones Empresariales, SL, Seminv - Investimentos SGPS, SA and of various companies of the Portucel Soporcel group. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of About the Future* and IBET (Institute for Experimental and Technologic Biology), member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of CEPI (Confederation of European Paper Industries), Chairman of the General Board and member of the Executive Committee of CELPA (Paper Industry Association), and Manager of CIP (Portuguese Industry Confederation).

Ville Henttonen
Product Manager, Benchmarking
RISI

Ville Henttonen is a Product Manager in RISI's Cost Benchmarking Services. Ville holds a Master of Science degree in Forest Products Technology from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Since joining RISI in 2005, Ville has worked on various cash manufacturing cost analyses, using proven methodology to estimate cost competitiveness of pulp and paper mills. His recent publications include competitive cost studies of European packaging and fine paper grades.

Glen O’Kelly
Specialist, Basic Materials Institute
McKinsey & Company

Glen O'Kelly is an industry analyst and consultant, with more than 10 years experience in the forest products sector.

Glen has been with McKinsey since 2003, as part of the firm's Paper and Forest Products practice, based in Stockholm. During this time he has served clients in all areas of the sector, from forestry and wood products, to pulp, paper and biomass. Starting out as a research analyst, Glen moved on to a senior analyst role in 2005, and specialist role in 2008. He is currently one of the leaders for the practice's research group in Stockholm.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Glen worked for as a forester and project leader at Carter Holt Harvey Forests in New Zealand, and briefly for Stora Enso Forests in Sweden with forest inventory projects.

Glen holds a Master of Science degree in Forest Economics from the New Zealand School of Forestry at Canterbury University, as well as Bachelor degrees in Forestry Science and Commerce from the same university.

Marco Mensink
Energy and Environment Director
CEPI

Marco Mensink holds a Masters of Science Degree in Forestry and Business Management from the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands.

Before joining CEPI in March 2006, he worked for 6 years as Energy & Environment Director at the Royal Netherlands' Paper and Board Association, also representing the Dutch industry in Brussels.

Mr Mensink started his career at Ernst & Young Management Consulting, working there for six years in Environmental Management and assessing the environmental issues in mergers and acquisitions.

In CEPI, he is responsible for the Climate Change issues vis a vis the EU institutions, presenting the industries interests. Key energy issues at the moment are Energy market liberalisation, the EU emission trading system and bio-energy issues. Key environmental issues are REACH, the paper industry BREF, Green public procurement and Environmental data management. On behalf of CEPI, he is the chairman of the FTP Biorefinery taskforce and part of the Business Europe delegation for the UNFCCC Cop meetings. He also participates in meetings on Climate Change at the Alliance for Competitive Industries and the Alliance of energy intensive industries.

Mr Mensink is a Dutch national, 41 years (1968), married and has three children. He is now living in Brussels.

Sampo Timonen
Director, European Graphic Papers
RISI

Sampo Timonen joined RISI in 2008 as the Director of European Graphic Paper. He is one of Europe's leading Pulp and Paper industry analysts with over a decade of industry-specific expertise.

Prior to joining RISI, Timonen served as Equity Analyst at Handelsbanken AB, heading up their pulp and paper research. At Handelsbanken, Sampo’s coverage of companies included UPM, Stora Enso, M-real, Norske Skog, Holmen, Ahlstrom and their international peer companies. Before Handelsbanken, he worked as Equity Analyst at FIM Equities for three years. There, he analyzed Põyry, Kemira and Ruukki Group in addition to those companies mentioned earlier. Previous to FIM, Sampo was Research Manager at Oy Keskuslaboratorio Ab (KCL). Responsibilities included project management of Future Watch, a forest industry trend-spotting program. Prior to KCL, Sampo served as Market Analyst at Myllykoski Paper Oy, forecasting demand and prices of newsprint, SC and LWC papers. He began his career in 1999 at M-real Kirkniemi mills and M-real (Board Division) in customer service.

Sampo's analysis is now featured in RISI's European Graphic Paper Forecast, Paper Trader Europe and various Viewpoints and features on RISI's main website.