2013 SPEAKER BIOS

Professor Andrea Boltho
Tutor in Economics
Oxford University

Educated in Italy and at the Universities of London (LSE), Paris and Oxford. From 1966 to 1977 at the OECD's Department of Economics and Statistics. In 1973-74 Japan Foundation Fellow at the Research Institute of the Economic Planning Agency, Tokyo. From 1977 to 2007, Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Since 2008 Emeritus Fellow.

At various stages, consultant to the World Bank, the OECD and member of the Academic Council of the IFO Institute, Munich, as well as Visiting Professor in various European universities. Has been a Member of the Board of Finmeccanica, is a Director of Oxford Economics and has lectured on world and European economic developments to various private sector corporations, including ABB, Anglo American, Arthur Andersen, FIAT, Ericsson, Generali, IBM, KPMG, Pirelli, Siemens, Stora Enso, etc.

Teresa Presas
Director General
CEPI

Teresa Presas was born in 1952 in Portugal and has a degree in psychology from the Instituto de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon. From 1972 to 1974 she worked for the Consumer Research Department of Lintas International.

She has worked as a journalist for the Semanario Expresso in Lisbon and has also worked on external & international relations at the Portuguese Film Institute.

Ms. Presas entered into the paper industry in 1982 as Director of Communication and Marketing Services for Tetra Pak Portugal. She later went on to become Director of Communication and Environment for Tetra Pak Europe and then, Vice President of European Affairs for Tetra Pak Europe and Africa and Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs for Tetra Pak International.

Between 1991 and 2003 she was member of the Board and Executive Committee of various organisations including, ACE (the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment), ASSURE (Association for the Sustainable Use and Recovery of Resources in Europe) and EUROPEN (European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment). During that period she was vice-chairperson of the European Commission Consultative Forum for Environment and Sustainable Development.

Since 2007, Teresa Presas has served as Chairman International Council of Forest and Paper Associations, Chairman Alliance for Competitive European Industries, Member of the EU Experts Advisory Group NMP - FP7 (Nanosciences-Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production) and is member of the High Level Group of the European Forest-based Sector Technology Platform

Teresa Presas became Director General of CEPI in September 2003, on behalf of Steps Management sprl.

Teresa Presas is Honorary Doctor at Helsinki University of Technology.

Berry Wiersum
Chief Executive Officer
Sappi Fine Paper Europe

Sappi, the world's leading producer of coated fine paper, appointed Berry Wiersum (57, British) Chief Executive Officer of Sappi Fine Paper Europe (SFPE) on 15 January 2007.

Mr Wiersum started his career at ICI Fibres, became President of Amoco Fabrics (Europe), then the President of Amoco Chemicals (Europe), and when Amoco was taken over by BP, he moved to BP to assist with the integration of the two groups in Europe. He subsequently left BP and joined Pechiney S.A. in France and ran the CEBAL packaging division until he was recruited as Managing Director of the Packaging division of Kappa Packaging BV (The Netherlands) and member of the Management Board responsible for paper manufacture and packaging in the Kappa group. He holds a Master of Arts degree with Combined Honours in Mediaeval and Modern History and subsidiaries in French and Music from the University of St Andrews in the UK.

Emmanuelle Neyroumande
Pulp and Paper Strategy Manager
WWF International

Profile:
Pulp and Paper Strategy Manager at WWF International since 2011, Emmanuelle has 14 years of experience in international forestry, of which 10 years with WWF-France, as manager of the Forest team, building partnership with pulp and paper companies and engaging major retailers on sustainable wood product consumption. Prior to WWF, she spent 3 years at the Representation of the European Commission in Indonesia in charge of Forestry projects. In Indonesia she also participated in field projects on Sustainable forestry Certification in Borneo with GTZ (german cooperation), as well as Non Timber Forest Products use in Sumatra with CIFOR (Center for International Research on Forestry).

Education:
1995, obtained a post-graduate degree in Rural Development, Water and Forest Management, with specialisation in tropical Forestry. Ecole Nationale du Genie Rural des Eaux et des Forêts (GREF), (French post-graduate Institute for rural development, water and forest management).
1993, Graduated in Agricultural Sciences. Institut National Agronomique-PG (INA-PG), (French Institute for Agricultural Sciences, Paris, France).

Rachel Butler
Independent Technical Advisor

Rachel has been working in the sustainability field for over 17 years. After graduating from London University with a Masters Degree, she started out in the public sector at both local and then regional government for 6 years working on sustainable economic policies and programmes.

Currently advising the European timber trade as an Independent Technical Advisor she is at the forefront of advocating responsible purchasing and forging partnerships with global partners, recently initiating an International Timber Trade Forum to foster relations and information sharing.

She sat on the Reference Board for UK Government's Central Point of Expertise on Timber since its inception and ran the programme at one time. She has a proven track record in international development on forestry ensuring sustainability and technical goals are met whilst working within commercial realities. Her skills include partnership building, the international forest products trade, standards and certification.

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.

Peter Oswald
Chief Executive Officer
Mondi Europe & International Division

Peter began his career with Deutsche Bank and automotive company KTM. He joined the Mondi Group in 1992 as the head of internal audit of subsidiary Frantschach, later becoming corporate controller.

After serving as chief executive of the bag and flexibles business from 1995 to 2001, overseeing its recovery and expansion, Peter was appointed chief executive of Mondi Packaging Europe in UK in 2002, leading its subsequent integration with Frantschach into the new Mondi packaging division in 2004.

At the beginning of 2008 Peter joined the Mondi Boards as chief executive officer of the Group's Europe & International Division, comprising all the former Mondi Packaging and Mondi Business Paper operations outside South Africa.

Peter serves as a non-executive director of Telekom Austria AG. He is Chairman of the Energy Committee of the Austrian Industry Association, Vice President of the Vienna Industry Association and President of respACT-austrian business council for sustainable development. He is member of the executive committee and board of CEPI.

Peter holds a master of business from the WU-Vienna Business School and a master of law from the University of Vienna. He is married with three children.

Graeme Rodden
Executive Editor
PPI

A native of Montreal, Graeme started covering the forest products industry as an Assistant Editor with Pulp & Paper Canada magazine in 1980, serving as Editor from 1994-2001. He then joined RISI in 2001, moving to Belgium to become Editor of PPI. When RISI acquired the publishing rights to the IFPTA Journal in 2007, he also assumed the duties of Editor of the Journal.

Now based in Nova Scotia, Canada, Graeme continues as Editor of the Journal as well as Executive Editor of PPI. Over the years, Graeme has visited more than 200 pulp and paper mills worldwide and attended countless forest products industry events and conferences.

Clive Suckling
Industry Consultant - Forest Sector

A professionally qualified senior executive with over 35 year´s international business experience. A proven leader with considerable experience of strategy, business development, and cross-cultural management.

After a long and varied career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), he has since 2012 been leveraging his in-depth knowledge of the forestry and forest products industries, solid governance experience and financial expertise to provide independent advice on sustainable investment issues and strategies in those sectors.

In his most recent role at PwC, he led their Global Forest, Paper & Packaging (FPP) industry practice, with revenues of around $300mn and more than 1,500 sector specialists.

His background is as an advisor on M&A and capital markets transactions for more than 25 years. Through his long time focus on the Scandinavian market and earlier responsibility for developing PwC’s business in Scandinavia, he has worked with many of the world´s leading forest products companies. He has also advised other corporates as well as financial investors on investment strategies into forestry and forest products.

His high profile in the FPP sector has made him a regular speaker on industry trends at conferences and events across the world and he has authored many published pieces on industry developments.

Thomas Ehrnrooth
Vice President of Marketing and Communications
UPM Paper

Thomas Ehrnrooth is responsible for paper products' marketing at UPM, a world leader in graphic paper with 21 modern and sustainable paper mills globally. Having a solid professional background in Sales and Marketing in international business environments, Thomas was nominated to his current position as VP of Marketing and Communications at UPM Paper in August 2011.

Thomas started his career at Finnpap in 1979; his vast experience in the industry includes several international positions in paper sales assignments in Egypt, Canada and France from 1979 to 1996. He returned to Finland in 1996 to work for Myllykoski where he became a member of the Executive Board. From 2006 to 2011 Thomas had a five-year stint in the sporting goods industry as SVP at Amer Sports Corporation, owner of brands like Wilson, Atomic, and Salomon, among others.

A strategic thinker, Thomas holds a degree in Business Administration from Hanken School of Economics, and in 2005 he participated in the Advanced Management Program (AMP) in Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Wolfgang Leitner
President & Chief Executive Officer
Andritz

When Wolfgang Leitner joined ANDRITZ as Chief Financial Officer in 1987, annual sales of the company were 194 million euros and net income was one million euros. At the end of 2011, ANDRITZ’s annual sales were 4.6 billion euros and net income was 232 million euros. The market capitalization of the ANDRITZ GROUP, publicly listed since 2001, was approximately five billion euros at the end of 2012.

In addition to leading the company to a global leadership position as a technology supplier to the pulp and paper industry, Leitner and his team have achieved a top three market position globally as a plant and machinery supplier for hydropower stations, solid/liquid separation, the steel industry, and for the production of feed and biomass pellets.

Leitner’s career path is one of classic entrepreneurial success. He excelled in school, earned a doctorate in chemistry, and got his start working as a research chemist at Vianova/Hoechst. He joined McKinsey as a consultant in 1981 and helped work out a restructuring plan for ANDRITZ in 1983 and 1984. After joining the company in 1987 and leading it successfully through a turnaround, a management buyout in 1999, and then a public offering in 2001, Leitner eventually became the company’s main shareholder (approx. 30%).

He has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of ANDRITZ since 1994. The company now employs about 17,700 people around the world. ANDRITZ is systematically tapping opportunities in emerging growth markets, especially in Asia and Latin America, and is moving forward into renewable energy technologies, which currently represent about 50% of the company’s sales.

Jacqui Macalister
Senior Manager, Sustainable Supply
McDonald's

Jacqui Macalister has 10 years experience in the sustainability and corporate responsibility field. She is Senior Manager for McDonald´s Europe responsible for the development and implementation of its supply chain sustainability strategy. Jacqui has a broad range of responsibilities across food, beverage, packaging and logistics. She recently developed the supply chain´s climate change programme, business commitments for sustainably sourced certified wood fibre and palm oil and is leading on their packaging work. She is the European representative on McDonald´s global Sustainable Supply Steering Committee, responsible for developing McDonald´s global sustainability sourcing strategy, and the SAI Platform´s Water Working Group. From 2003-2007 she ran Business in the Community´s CR Index and prior to moving into the sustainability field she practiced law. In her spare time, Jacqui loves theatre going and reading. She lives in London.

Eliano Apicella
Purchasing Director - Packaging & Promotional Materials
Barilla

Eliano Apicella is working in Barilla G. &: R. F.lli (Leading Italian Food Company) since 1998. He has been appointed as Purchasing Associate Director for Packaging and Promotional Materials in 2008. Prior to this, he headed the Vendor Assurance Department, with the main responsibility to guarantee the conformity of all the deliveries raw materials, packaging, promotional materials and finished products to the specifications and company policies.

Eliano was born in Italy in 1971 and he lives actually in Parma. He holds a degree in Chemical and Food Engineering from the University of Salerno in Italy. He is married.

Jurgita Girzadiene
Sustainability Manager Packaging
Smurfit Kappa Development Centre

Education:
Institution: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Program/Subject: Business Management
Qualification received: Master degree in Business Management (Marketing) and Bachelor degree in Business Management (Finance)
In 2011 was selected for the Smurfit Kappa International Advanced Management Development program

Started in Smurfit Kappa (former names of the company AssiDoman and Kappa Packaging) in 1998 as a sales co-ordinator. Developed into sales manager responsible for large accounts for the entire Baltic region. Responsible for commercial activities with customers and suppliers, innovation and logistics. During this period followed several educations in communication, negotiations and sales.

In 2010 promoted to Sustainability Manager for the Smurfit Kappa corrugated Division as part of the European marketing and development organization. In this role drives the European Smurfit Kappa sustainability agenda:
• Internally: with data collection, improvement projects and implementation of best practices. For instance at the end of 2012 all Smurfit Kappa operation reached FSC/PEFC certification
• Externally: responsible for developing the sustainability services for key customers mainly in the FMCG industry like Nestle, Unilever, Mars, etc.

Important elements developed in the last years are sustainable sourcing services, supply chain carbon improvements, material optimization, etc. Functionally heads a team of specialist in 10 regions in Europe to ensure a close link between operational and strategic sustainability topics.

Darryl Rice
End User Director
BillerudKorsnäs

Darryl is 58 years old, married and lives near to Cambridge in the UK. He has many years´ experience of the packaging industry having been involved in sales and marketing of printed folding cartons and carton machinery systems, liquid packaging and corrugated packaging. Darryl has been involved in the paperboard side of the industry for over 21 years, and his knowledge and experience of cartonboard and other paperboard products (including Kraft liners and sack and Kraft papers) is now focussed on helping end users of BillerudKorsnäs high performance materials to optimise their packaging solutions through innovation. Darryl and his team aim to help brand owners and other end users to secure competitive and sustainable packaging solutions using all of BillerudKorsnäs´s world class competence.

Chris Hallam
Managing Director
Concept Packaging Ltd

Chris Hallam has been involved in the packaging industry for over 20 years after graduating from the University of Salford with a BSc (Hons) in business.

He is the owner and managing director of Concept Packaging, which he formed in 1993 as a specialist packaging design company, with the main focus on developing new ways to produce shaped packaging from card and paper. Concept’s key markets are spirits, confectionery, glassware, fragrance and cosmetics.

With its business model being ‘manufacture under license’ Concept Packaging partners up with major packaging manufacturers in the UK, Europe, USA and Asia and has worked with key brands such as Diageo, Brown Foreman, Thorntons, Waterford and Avon.

Chris has been instrumental in developing shaped cartonboard tubes for the spirits sector and several variants of rigid and collapsible cartonboard packs. Concept Packaging has recently provided the constructional design for a Pentaward winning pack for Jack Daniel’s.

David Katsnelson
Director, Macroeconomics
RISI

David has over 15 years market experience in the financial industry, including over a decade as a trader for boutique hedge funds and brokerages in New York and Boston. He also co-founded ProSeed Capital Holdings, an international venture capital company. David is responsible for collecting, analyzing, forecasting, and communicating macroeconomic data and its relevance to clients throughout the forest product industry. He is the editor of RISI's Monthly Economic Commentary and the Economic Outlook chapters that appear in all RISI forecasts.

Kurt Schaefer
Vice President/Practice Leader, Fiber
RISI

Kurt has been with RISI for over 15 years. His team provides monthly and quarterly forecasts and analyses, single-client and special market analysis studies. Prior to RISI, Kurt directed the Pulp & Paper Forecaster, forecasting prices of paper and paperboard across all of North America. Kurt manages RISI's global fiber economic team.

Hannah Zhao
Senior Economist, Recovered Paper
RISI

Hannah has specialized in the world recovered paper markets for RISI since January 2009. She writes for the World Recovered Paper Monitor and RISI's 5-Year and 15-year recovered paper forecasts. She also provides single- and multi-client studies on recovered paper markets.

Hannah holds a Master of Science degree in Resource Economics from University of Rhode Island, a Master of Science degree in Climate Change from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from Beijing Normal University, China

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.

Ville Henttonen
Senior Product Manager, Mill Intelligence
RISI

Ville conducts cash manufacturing cost studies of global pulp and paper mills to estimate their cost competitiveness in specific markets, such as European packaging and fine paper grades.

Ville holds a Master's of Science degree in Forest Products Technology from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He has gained valuable industry experience working for various pulp and paper mills, machinery suppliers and forest products consulting companies.

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.

Esko Uutela
Economist/Analyst, Tissue
RISI

With more than 30 years' experience in the global paper market, Esko's expertise lies in the tissue and recovered fiber markets. After working nearly 18 years for a large forest industry consulting company in Helsinki and Munich, Esko established EU Consulting, his own forest industry consulting company. Esko carries out numerous private client projects, as well as publishing RISI's comprehensive studies on tissue business developments and global recycled fiber markets worldwide.

Orifjon Abidov
Economist, European Paper Packaging
RISI

Since 2008, Orifjon has headed up RISI's European Paper Packaging service and is responsible for providing near- and long-term forecast reports for the European containerboard and cartonboard markets, and contributes to various single client and special market analysis studies covering these industries.

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.