Speakers

Tony Bond
General Manager, Pentarch Forest Product Ltd, New Zealand
Tony has an extensive background in the New Zealand forest industry with particular experience in the marketing of export logs into Asian markets and in integrated supply chain planning. As General Manager, he has specific responsibility for managing the company’s export sales activities across the country. Prior to joining Pentarch, Tony was Sales & Marketing Manager for CHH Forests. Previously, Tony had spent over 10 years with Fletcher Challenge Forests and Forestry Corporation of NZ (FCNZ) in a number of senior sales and marketing and supply chain planning roles culminating as General Manager, Forests and Supply for Fletcher Challenge Forests Ltd.

Nigel Brunel
Head of Carbon Trading. OM Financial
Nigel Brunel (and OM Financial) is considered a pioneer in the New
Zealand carbon market having transacted the first trade under the NZ ETS
which was the first trade of (compliance) forestry carbon in the world.
OMF has been active in the local market since late 2007 and has
extensive knowledge about the make-up about the New Zealand market -
they are the only financial broker in New Zealand focussing on carbon.
Nigel has completed many trades under the ETS for both local and overseas companies. OMF also aggregate carbon in New Zealand for emitters - the majority of forests in New Zealand is in small lots which needs to be aggregated into marketable parcels.
Nigel has an extensive working knowledge of the local market and understands how the domestic price controls & international pricing affects local pricing.

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.

Doug Ducker
Chair, Wood Council of New Zealand
Woodco is the overarching body representing the Forestry and Wood Processing interests of New Zealand. The Council is made up of Forest Owners Assn, Farm Forestry Assn, Forest Industry Contractors Assn, Wood Processors Assn and Pine Manufacturers Assn and operates to provide oversight to the industry in all areas of its activity. Doug Ducker has chaired the Council since 2006 and has seen the strength and image of the industry develop through collective representation to Government and others – this joint Conference is in itself testament to the success of Woodco in achieving common purpose. Doug Ducker has been Managing Director of Pan Pac Forest Products since 2004 - this appointment followed substantial service with the company in roles including process engineering, technical R & D, project management and production management. In addition to the role as Chair of the Wood Council of New Zealand Doug is a Director of the Wood Processors Association, a councillor of the Japan New Zealand Business Council and Vice President of the Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce.

Kerry Ellem
General Manager, Nature's Flame
Kerry was appointed Nature's Flame General Manager on 1 June and is based at the company's new wood pellet production plant at Taupo. Kerry has significant experience in the forestry area, from plantations to wood processing and international sales.
Kerry was the Chief Executive Officer of Selwyn Plantation Board Ltd between 2000 and 2008, held senior management roles with Masport Ltd, Winstone Pulp International Ltd and James Hardie Building Products and has an extensive background in both domestic and international sales and marketing, forestry and forest products processing.

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).

Bill Johnston
North Island General Manager, Ernslaw One Limited.
Bill has been in this role since its inception in 1990. Ernslaw One North Island operations in that period have expanded from 13,400 hectares to 76,000 hectares with production from 100,000m3 to over a million m3. In this role Bill has travelled throughout Asia marketing logs. He has 47 years’ experience in forest management, including periods with the N Z Forest Service and N Z Forestry Corporation. Bill has held senior management positions with in the forestry industry over the last 30 years.

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.

Mark Procter, Executive Director, TPT Group
Mark holds functional responsibility for TPT’s client interface, planning and port operations. TPT is exporting approximately 3.8 million JAS per annum of softwood logs to key Asian markets (including India) from currently 7 ports in NZ, 1 port in Australia, and 2 ports in the Pacific Northwest of USA. 
Prior to joining TPT in August 2004, Mark held the position of Supply & Logistics Manager at Norske Skog, Kawarau. For the 5 years at Norske Skog (previously Fletcher Challenge Paper) he held senior positions responsible for Energy and Fibre supply, warehousing and a range of joint services required across the integrated Norske Skog mechanical newsprint and Carter Holt Harvey Kraft Pulp mill sites.  
Before that Mark, held a range of positions with Fletcher Challenge Forests spanning 15 years from 1984. Over that period he was involved in silviculture, harvesting, log and lumber sales from a number of regions including Auckland, Nelson, Rotorua, Kawerau, Taupo, Murupara, Gisborne and Putaruru.

Chris Rayes
Marketing Director, Rayonier Asia Pacific
Chris will be one of four log exporters speaking on the panel.
Chris has a forest management background with extensive experience in forest product exports for a number of large forest organisations which have included Forestry Corporation, Fletcher Challenge Forests, Silva Forest Products, Carter Holt Forests and Rayonier Asia Pacific.  Chris joined Rayonier Asia Pacific in 2006 and has been Marketing Director since 2008.  Chris is responsible for directing a team of dedicated export professionals managing sales, shipping, port operations, customer services and documentation from New Zealand and the Pacific North West.  The total export volume managed by Chris’s export team is approximately 1.5 million m3.

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.