Financial experts and industry analysts presented insights on trends and issues shaping the forest and paper industry
Panelists
Craig Campbell Partner, Performance Improvement, Forest, Paper and Packaging Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Vancouver, Canada
Craig Campbell is a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Forest and Paper Industry Practice and leads the Performance Improvement practice, based in Vancouver, Canada. Craig is responsible for Canadian, North American and global benchmarking studies. He is an expert on strategic trends in the global forest and paper industry. He is a frequent speaker and author, and is called upon regularly by the media for his views on the trends and transactions shaping the industry.
Craig has extensive experience in the forest and paper sector, particularly in technology, benchmarking surveys, merger integration and cost comparisons. He was the chair of one of the four ISO working groups developing international environmental standards, which involved the coordination of the many different views expressed by participating ISO 14000 members world-wide. Craig also was a member of the Canadian Advisory Committee to the ISO/TC 206 working group on sustainable forest management.
From 1996 to 1999, he was based in Montreal, where he established PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Eastern North American Forest and Paper Practice. He is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of the University of British Columbia (Bachelor of Commerce).
Reid Carter
Managing Partner
Brookfield Timberlands Investment Management
Vancouver, Canada
Reid is currently a Managing Partner with Brookfield Asset Management and leads Brascan’s Timberlands Investment Management Organization. In this role, Reid is focused on the acquisition of private timberlands throughout North America and in Brazil. Reid joined Brookfield (formerly Brascan) in 2003 after serving as National Bank Financial’s Paper and Forest Products Analyst where Reid was a top-ranked analyst. Reid has a detailed understanding of the management, assets and relative global competitive positioning of Canadian and North American Paper and forest products companies. Reid is well known within the forest industry and investment community and has been a frequent guest speaker at major industry conferences.
Lars Kjellberg
Financial Analyst
Credit Suisse
London, UK
In 1997, Mr. Kjellberg joined Credit Suisse to cover the paper industry. Mr. Kjellberg was ranked Third in the 2001 Institutional Investor Survey for Paper (Pan-European) and has since featured every year in its pan-European research team. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Kjellberg worked as the senior pulp and paper analyst at Enskilda Securities. This followed eight years at the Swedish Forest Industries Association (formerly the Swedish Pulp and Paper Association) where he specialised in statistics and market research. He was involved in committee work for the European Tissue Symposium (ETS), Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI), Cepifine and EPIS. Mr. Kjellberg graduated with a BSc in public administration from Uppsala University, Sweden, specializes in advanced economics and statistics. He speaks Swedish and English fluently.
Libarid Guluzian Partner, Canadian Tax Leader, Forest, Paper and Packaging Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Montreal, Canada
Libo is the PricewaterhouseCoopers tax market leader for the Canadian forestry and packaging industry. He provides tax consultancy services to many Montreal forestry companies. He has been working exclusively in the area of taxes since 1992 and has over 16 years of experience in public practice.
Libo actively participates in client acquisitions, restructurings, and personal tax planning. In addition, he represents his clients in negotiations with the taxation authorities.
Libo has lectured on income tax matters for the Tax Executives Institute of Canada (“TEI”) and for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (“CICA”). He has also lectured for McGill University’s “Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy”, and has tutored students in preparation for the Uniform Final Examination (“UFE”).
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