Suzano CEO to speak at RISI Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference
BOSTON, MA, Oct. 2, 2007 - RISI today announced that Antonio Maciel Neto, CEO of Suzano Papel e Celulose, has joined the CEO panel at the company's second annual Latin American Pulp and Paper Outlook Conference.
Nils Grafstrom, Executive Vice President, Stora Enso Latin America and Sergio Amoroso, CEO, Grupo Orsa, previously agreed to participate in this panel, which will be chaired by Rod Young, RISI's Chairman.
The conference will be held in São Paulo, Brazil on November 28 - 30, 2007 at the Renaissance São Paulo Hotel and will provide attendees with powerful networking and educational opportunities. The event is supported by ABTCP, ANAVE, ANDIPA, BRACELPA, and CICEPLA.
RISI also confirmed that the keynote speech will be given by Hans Schulz, General Manager of Structured and Corporate Finance Department, Inter-American Development Bank. Mr Schultz will address the topic, "Can Latin American Economies Maintain Competitive Advantages?"
The program also features speeches from other key industry leaders, including:
Ronald Beare, Managing Director of Botnia SA (Uruguay)
Charles Kimber, Director Corporate Affairs and Marketing, Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A. (Arauco)
Guillermo Mullins, Director of Sales & Marketing, CMPC Celulosa
João Almeida, General Director of Julio Simões
Arthur Gonoretzky, Managing Director, Central National-Latin America
Paulo Petterle, Paper and Sack Business Unit Director, Klabin
Conference attendees will also hear RISI's team of economists present their two-year forecasts for supply, demand, profitability, investment and trade for each major grade of pulp and paper.
Simultaneous translations will be available in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available for this event. To learn more about sponsoring the Latin American Pulp and Paper Conference, please visit www.risiinfo.com/la_conf/sponsor_info or email advertising@risiinfo.com.
For more information on the conference program or to register, please visit www.risiinfo.com/la_conf or email events@risiinfo.com.
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