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Helping the Wood Products Industry Profit From the Next 10 Years A 2-day workshop at the Wood Education and Resource Center in Princeton, West Virginia April 11-12th, 2006 Speakers  John
Brandt, CEO, MPI GroupCEO and Founder of MPI, Brandt has spent more than two decades studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. An expert on how companies and communities can adapt themselves to the realities of new markets, new corporate structures, and new customer expectations, he is an accomplished management innovator. Brandt combines two decades of experience in marketing, management, and consulting with a passion for journalism that has earned him more than 20 awards for reporting, writing, and editing. Most recently he served as President, Publisher and Editorial Director of the Chief Executive Group, publisher of Chief Executive. Prior to joining Chief Executive , Brandt was publisher and editor-in-chief of IndustryWeek, the definitive source of current information and analyses of the world's foremost manufacturing organizations. Under his leadership, IndustryWeek won more than 70 editorial awards for excellence while more than doubling its revenues. Most prominent among the numerous initiatives he launched at IW is IndustryWeek.com, an award-winning web venture that serves senior executives around the globe. Brandt led the development of several pioneering, large-scale research efforts at IndustryWeek, including the IndustryWeek Census of Manufacturers, the IW Value Chain Survey, the World-Class Communities Project, the IndustryWeek 1000, and the World’s Best Managed Companies Program. Brandt was also involved in the IndustryWeek Best Plants program. Brandt is an internationally recognized expert on management and technology. Brandt’s unique access and relationships with CEOs and top executive teams gives him an exceptional understanding of how traditional and non-traditional organizations can reinvent themselves through the intelligent use of advanced management theory and leading-edge technology. In both his speech presentations and advisory activities, Brandt combines these assets with his wit, research and insights to help organizations position themselves for a long and profitable future. A recipient of the prestigious Neal Award in 1998, Brandt has also served as a Neal Awards judge. He has also served as a judge for the National Association of Manufacturers Awards for Workforce Excellence, as an advisory board member of both SupplierInsight.com and Ken-Tool Manufacturing, and as a director of the Ohio MEMS Association and the Work in Northeast Ohio Council. Co-chair of the Northeast Ohio Product Innovation Initiative, Brandt is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Case Western Reserve University, where he held the James Dysart Magee Economics Fellowship.
Dr. Howe is co-author of the extremely popular "Planning Guide for Small and Medium Size Wood Products Companies, and is an expert on creating Learning Organizations and on implementing organizational change. Dr. Jeffrey Howe has a B.S. degree in Biology from Bates College, a M.S. degree in Forest Products Marketing from the University of Maine, and a PhD in Marketing from the University of Minnesota.
Bowyer is an Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science, Chairman of the Tropical Forest Foundation (Alexandria, Virginia) – an organization with major operations in Brazil, Guyana, Indonesia, and Gabon, Chairman of the Minnesota Bio-fiber Council, and Member of the Governing Board and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Temperate Forest Foundation (Portland, Oregon). He has previously served as President of the Forest Products Society (1993-94) and of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (1987-88), and as Vice President of the Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (1992-2003). He works today as a frequent consultant to business and governmental organizations in helping to identify strategic issues and potential responses in the context of national and global trends.
In 1996 Carol joined the staff of Koetter Woodworking in Borden, Indiana, and soon took responsibility for the coordination of all facets of the design and development of The Forest Discovery Center in Starlight, Indiana. From 1997 to 2002, Carol served as both the Executive Director of the Starlight Visitor's Association and as the Executive Director of The Forest Discovery Center. In October of 2002, she joined the staff of the National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) in Memphis, Tennessee, as Associate Executive Manager. During her tenure with NHLA, she was responsible for oversight of the operation of the 14-week NHLA Inspection School and for coordination and implementation of all NHLA educational programs.
Neil. P. Lynch is Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning for MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc. (MBCI), headquartered in Jasper, Indiana. MBCI is a part of the Home Products division of Fortune Brands, Inc. Neil started with MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc., in October of 1999 as Senior Vice President of Marketing, and was named Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning in October of 2001.
Since joining the company in 1999, Neil has helped create a new focus on consumer understanding that has allowed targeting specific consumer segments with brands, products, and communications. This broad and diverse Brand / Product Portfolio is a critical element in the execution of the Channel Marketing Strategy.
Previous to his employment with MasterBrand Cabinets, Inc., Neil was employed by Whirlpool Corporation from 1977 to 1999. His experience included, Engineering Management, Product Management, Strategic Planning and Executive Management in the US, Canada and Asia. Neil hold's BSME and MSME Degrees from the University of Notre Dame.
Robert Owens, Owens Forest Products Robert “Bob” M. Owens graduated from Westminster College (Fulton, MO) in 1959 with a degree in business administration. Bob Owens has blended his life, work, and college experiences with a strong land stewardship ethic to build a successful, cutting-edge forest products business. Bob Owens, Founder and President of Owens Forest Products, started out as a one-man operation in 1974 with its focus on being a wholesale lumber company and a pulpwood dealership.Today, Owens Forest Products continuously achieves its mission, “providing quality hardwood products to the world,” via its veneered products division that manufactures residential doors under the brand of “Woodport®,” and the engineered hardwood flooring division, with the brand name “Plankf loor ®.” Duluth, MN is home for the company's offices with eight employees; and the manufacturing plant currently employs 300 people in Shawano, WI. Owens is a national leader in the development and promotion of sustainable forestry programs and practices that promote forest biodiversity. He has had long and productive affiliations with many industry associations and is the immediate past president of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA) and President of the Hardwood Forest Foundation (HFF), which is a group that is solely focused on educating teachers on relevant information of the Lumber Industry. He also serves on the board of the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA). He is a past chairman of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. Owens was the leader in bringing forest certification to the hardwood industry through his involvement with the AF&PA Forestry Executive Committee and their development of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). Bob Owens, together with Owens Forest Products, has also taken an active role in the Temperate Forest Foundation. He has been a member of the Business Advisory Board since 1996 that focuses on balancing the economical, ecological and environmental values of sustainable forestry by offering educational tools to our nation's science teachers. To date, Bob Owens and Owens Forest Products have sponsored over 40 teachers and naturalists to take part in the Temperate Forest Foundation's Teachers' Tours.
Orn E Gudmundsson, Sr., CEO, Northland Corporation Orn is CEO of Northland Corporation,
a family business and hardwood lumber company he has operated for 38
years. He has been CEO since 1982. Northland Corporation's headquarters
is located on 100 acres in LaGrange, Kentucky. Northland Corp
sells high quality Northern and Appalachian hardwoods to markets both
domestic and foreign. Northland has additional locations in Montreal,
Canada and Lexington, NC. Orn has also served as President of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association, on the Executive Committee
of the Hardwood Federation and as Honorary Consul for Iceland.
He has a B.S. Degree in Commerce with a concentration in finance from
the University of Louisville.
Dr. Bill Luppold, USFS Forest Sciences Laboratory Dr . William ( Bill ) Luppold is a Project Leader and economist with the USDA Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Princeton, West Virginia. He joined the forest service after receiving his PhD from Virginia Tech in 1981. During his Forest Service career Bill has conducted research on demand, supply and price of hardwood lumber, material requirements of wood furniture manufacturers, international hardwood product markets, and the U.S. sawmilling industry. His current research efforts are to investigate how markets for hardwood products have affected the long-term composition, structure, and sustainability of eastern hardwood forests and how these changes will affect the hardwood industry.
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