Peter Butzelaar, BSc(For), MBA,
Vice President & Associate Editor, International Wood Markets Group Inc
Peter Butzelaar's background in the forest industry encompasses manufacturing, marketing, as well as strategic consulting. Peter has a forestry degree from UBC and an MBA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C.
As a forest products marketing consultant with International WOOD MARKETS Group and R.E. Taylor & Associates for the last seventeen years, Peter has assisted associations, governments, and industry clients with their business planning, product and market development, and global marketing strategies. In the area of market research, he has conducted extensive work investigating the value-added opportunities for both lumber, millwork products. Peter travels extensively throughout North American market, as well as visits supplying regions in Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Robert Eastment
Director of IndustryEdge
Robert is a professional economist and forester. IndustryEdge provides a range of market related professional services to industry, both corporate and commercial, and governments with interests in the Australasian forestry, pulp and paper sectors. Robert has a strong background in the corporate finance sector in Australia, as well as Asia and Europe. He is the editor of the monthly market intelligence report Pulp and Paper Edge, the annual Pulp and Paper Strategic Review and the bi-annual Forest and Wood Strategic Review. He has an intimate knowledge of the pulp and paper sector in Australia and New Zealand.

Bob Flynn
Director, RISI Inc, USA
Robert Flynn is Director of International Timber for RISI. His work involves analysis of trends in international timber supply and demand and trade in pulpwood and sawlogs. Prior to joining RISI in April 2006, he worked 18 years as a consultant with several firms including Jay Gruenfeld Associates and Wood Resources International, assisting clients in understanding trends in forest resources, forest ownership, and industrial development in Southern Hemisphere plantation forest countries, China, and elsewhere. In addition, Mr. Flynn worked 11 years as a forester, primarily for Champion International in Oregon. Projects in 2006 have included multi-client studies on China’s timber supply deficit, the Global Tree Farm and Managed Forest Industry (comparison of growing costs and investment opportunities in planted forests around the world), and the International Pulpwood Resource and Trade Review (also known as “The Woodchip Report”, 14th Edition published February 2007).

Doug Massey
Director, 4STree Pty Ltd
Doug has over 13 years experience in the forestry and pulp and paper industry. He recently started 4STree Pty Ltd, a forestry consulting firm specialising in the international marketing of forest products. Previously, Doug was General Manager, Strategic Development for Forest Enterprises Australia and was responsible for strategic projects, R&D and international marketing of the company's forest products. He has also worked 7 years with Daio Paper Corp in its Forest Resources Department as Strategy and Procurement Adviser. Doug has the unique experience of having sat on both sides of the woodchip negotiating table as both buyer and supplier and has built up strong relationships on both sides.

Greg McCormack
Chairman, Midway Pty Ltd Australia
Greg is currently President of the National Association of Forest Industries in Australia and has been active in Industry and Government relations for most of his career.
Greg has extensive experience in the Australian Forests industry. His range of business operations include softwood and hardwood plantations, forest harvesting and logistics, woodchip processing shipping and marketing, production of sawn timber , distribution and marketing.
He has a University Degree in Business majoring in Economics and Accounting

Rod Meynink
Principal and a Director of MBAC Consulting Group Pty. Ltd.
Rod Meynink is Principal and a Director of MBAC Consulting Group Pty. Ltd., a forest and forest industry consulting firm based in Melbourne. Rod has 30 years experience in the Australian and international forestry sector, principally in resource assessment, wood supply, valuations, industry analysis, carbon, bioenergy and strategic planning.  Rod has worked throughout Asia-Pacific as well as North and South America and South Africa.  He has undertaken around 300 projects in 20 countries involving resource, industry, markets, carbon and biofuel.

Dennis Neilson
Director, DANA Ltd, New Zealand
Dennis is a Director of the New Zealand based forest industry consulting and publishing company, DANA Limited. Dennis has had previous experience as a Wood Supply and Export Marketing Manager for Fletcher Forests; and as a Manager and Director of a JV New Zealand-Japanese woodchip export company. He is presently a Director of a eucalyptus plantation- owning company. For several years now, Dennis has been a co-author of the annual multi-client report entitled, “The International Pulpwood Resource and Trade Review” – the 2007 edition is its 14th edition. He also has been the co-author of three editions of a major report on the Global Tree Farm and Managed Forest Industry, which is designed for international forest investors. Dennis is one of the three organizers of this, the second International Pulpwood Resource and Trade Conference, after helping to organize, and speaking at the first meeting in Uruguay in 2005. He also speaks regularly at international meetings on forestry investment, wood supply and wood product issues. Dennis travels regularly to keep up to date with industry and trade trends. In 2006 he visited 28 countries during five trips to research new trends and to assist DANA consulting and publishing clients identify wood resources and trade opportunities. These countries included the important Asian Woodfiber markets of China, Japan and Taiwan, as well as several important Northern, Central and Eastern European fibre importing countries; Australia, South Africa and Turkey.

Doug Parsonson
Vice President, Poyry Management Consulting (Australia) Pty Ltd
Doug Parsonson is President, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Rim and he is based in the Melbourne office.
Doug graduated in 1978 from Australian National University with a BS in Forestry and has an MS in Natural Resource Management from the University of Minnesota. His area of expertise is international forest industry, fibre supply strategy, solid wood products business development, and the environmental impact assessment of forestry projects.
Doug was Principal in Pöyry’s New York office for 10 years prior to returning to Australia. He was previously head of the Australian operations and brings significant forest industry experience from North America, Latin America and Russia, on top of his experience in Australia.

Richard Stanton
Chief Executive Officer
A3P – Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council
Richard’s background is in forestry, wood products and paper industry policy. Richard has been with A3P since its formation in 2004 and was appointed CEO in 2008. Prior to joining A3P Richard gained substantial industry association experience with the Australian Paper Industry Council, the Plantation Timber Association of Australia and the National Association of Forest Industries. He has also worked in a number of policy development roles with the Commonwealth and NSW Governments.
Richard holds a Bachelor of Science (Forestry) Honours degree from the Australian National University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Technology Sydney.

Jim Stevens
Manager of Global Business Development
The Campbell Group
In his position as the Manager of Global Business Development, Mr. Stevens' primary role is client development and to increase the awareness of The Campbell Group throughout the global investment community. Prior to joining The Campbell Group, Mr. Stevens had extensive forestry, forest investment and research experience in a variety of US (forester in Colorado and Alaska, university teaching in Michigan, forest economist in Oregon and Washington) and international (forest economist in Denmark, university lecturer in India) forestry positions. His range of experience includes forest management and investment in forest lands as varied as Alaskan and Russian boreal forest, tropical plantations and natural forests, as well as temperate hardwood and conifer managed forests and conifer plantations. Education Credentials: PhD Forest Economics: University of Washington, Master of Forestry: Colorado State University.

Peter Thode
National Fibre Manager
CHH Woodproducts Australia
Peter Thode,has been National Fibre Manager for CHH Woodproducts Australia since April 2000. Previously he was employed in New Zealand for 27 years by a variety of employers in various roles in the forest growing side of the business with the emphasis of the roles being dominated by the management of fibre supply. CHH Woodproducts Australia currently has 8 sawmills, 1 plywood mill (under renewal), and 4 Particle Board mills located from Gympie in Qld to Mt Gambier in SA.  CHH acquired the chip export business of GTFP in July 2008.

Jarrod Waring
Plantation Energy Australia
Jarrod Waring joined Plantation Energy Australia (PEA) as Business Development Manager in October 2008 and has 17 years experience in forestry, off-shore manufacturing and more recently all aspects of developing Australia’s first industrial scale wood pellet manufacturing plant in Albany Western Australia. Prior to joining PEA, Jarrod spent 8 years living and working in Japan and China for both government and private industry where he gained extensive knowledge of export markets.