RISI names Brad Kalil new Director of Tissue
BOSTON, MA, March 10, 2008 - RISI recently announced Brad Kalil as Director of Tissue. Brad brings over a decade of global industry expertise to his new role, significantly increasing the depth and breadth of RISI's tissue market coverage.
"As we expand our leadership position in the pulp and paper sectors, establishing the Director of Tissue role is the right decision for RISI and Brad Kalil is absolutely the right executive for the role," said RISI CEO John Day. "Brad will spearhead the effort to build upon RISI's industry-leading tissue market intelligence, including market forecasting, news and price reporting, and mill intelligence."
In his new role as Director of Tissue, Brad is responsible for RISI's tissue economic analysis and news and is a major contributor to several of its reports. RISI's tissue coverage, recognized worldwide as the most comprehensive tissue information available, includes the World Tissue Business Monitor, Outlook for World Tissue Business, U.S. Tissue Monthly Data, and capacity and cost benchmarking data for global tissue mills.
Brad will appear at the upcoming Tissue World Americas event, March 11-14, 2008, in Miami Beach Florida. He will speak on Tissue Paper Market Outlook at the RISI European Pulp & Paper Outlook conference, April 7-9, 2008, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Prior to joining RISI, Brad spent seven years at Weyerhauser in business intelligence roles within the Cellulose Fibers and Markets and Economics Research groups. Brad's career within research and analysis stretches back to 1987; he previously served as Research Director, Director of Market Research, and Senior Associate, Vice President for the Seattle office in other organizations in his home state of Washington.
About RISI
RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. The company works with clients in the pulp and paper, wood products, timber, tissue, nonwovens, printing and publishing industries to help them make better decisions.
Headquartered in Boston (Bedford), Massachusetts, RISI operates offices in Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; Portland, Oregon; São Paulo, Brazil; Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Charlottesville, Virginia. More information can be found at www.risiinfo.com.