Speakers for 2008 Conference

José Rafael Campino, President, Forestal del Sur S. A., Chile
Nationality: Chilean
Date of Birth: December 28, 1952
Address: Apoquindo 3200, 9th Floor, Santiago
Marital Status: Married, 3 children
Telephone: 56-2-2331283
E-Mail: campino@fds.cl
University Degrees: - Master of Science in Management
Stanford University, U.S.A.
- Civil Engineer
Universidad Católica de Chile
Languages: Spanish, English and French (Fluently)

Professional Experience:
1986 – 2008 Forestal del Sur S. A.
Start-up of Forestal del Sur in 1986 (called Forestal Richco from 1986 to 1990). Present position is President.
1990 – 2008 Forestal Los Lagos S.A.
Start-up of Forestal Los Lagos. Member of the Board of Directors. President of Forestal Los Lagos until 2004.
2005 – 2008 Forestal Atlántico Sur Sociedad Agraria de Responsabilidad Limitada (Montevideo, Uruguay)
Start-up of Forestal Atlántico Sur in 2005
Managing Partnership
2006 – 2008 Member of the Board of Directors of Ecopellets S. A.
2006 – 2008 First Vice President of the “Corporación Chilena de la Madera”
(Chilean Forestry Association)
1995 – 2008 Member of the Board of Directors of Forestal Puerto Montt
1994 – 2006 Councillor of the “Corporación Chilena de la Madera” (Chilean Forestry Association)
1993 – 2008 Member of the Board of Directors of Forestales Regionales S.A.
1978 – 1986 Forestal Arauco – Sales Manager
During this period Mr. Campino lived during the 1st half of 1981 in Tokyo to familiarize with the Japanese forestry market.

Studies:
1958 – 1970 School studies at Saint George College in Santiago, Chile
Graduated Cum Laude
1971 – 1972 Civil Engineering at the Universidad Católica de Chile
1972 – 1975 Civil Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland
1975 – 1976 Civil Engineering at the Universidad Católica de Chile
Graduated with distinction.
1984 – 1985 Graduate School of Business
Stanford University, U.S.A.

Håkan Ekström, Principle, Wood Resources International, USA
Mr. Håkan Ekström is the principal of Wood Resources International LLC, an internationally recognized consulting firm providing forest market analysis and wood price reporting for the forest industry worldwide.

He has, for the past 22 years, worked in various capacities relating to wood products utilization, international forest products marketing and global wood supply. His international experience is extensive, including visitation of more than 20 countries to research forest resource issues and to study forest products industry developments on-site.

He is also the editor of the Wood Resource Quarterly and the North American Wood Fiber Review, two reports tracking wood markets and focus on the global and the North American market, respectively. The reports include information about wood costs, wood supply and trade of wood products in all the major regions of the world.

Bob Flynn, Director, RISI Inc, USA (also part of Organising Committee)
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).

Makoto Hasegawa, Mitsui O.S.K. Bulk Shipping (Europe) Ltd., UK

Makoto is General Manager of an European subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL). He has worked at MOL in several fields after graduating from university with a bachelor degree of Economics. In 1997 he was posted to Vancouver BC where he had responsibility as a commercial manager at Gearbulk Shipping Canada Ltd. In 1999 he returned to the MOL's head office as Manager for wood chip carriers. He had led the team there which addressed the challenges of globalization for MOL's wood chip carriers' business. Last year he was transferred to London where he is looking after transatlantic trade. MOL is one of the world largest shipping companies which encompasses broad range shipping activities, including dry bulk, containerships, car carriers, tankers and LNG carriers. MOL makes a strong showing in the field of woodfibre transportation, handling world biggest fleet of chip carriers and regular dry bulkers, and also having a stake in Gearbulk which is a leading carrier of unitized forest products.

Rod Meynink, Principal and a Director of MBAC Consulting Group Pty. Ltd, Australia
MBAC Consulting Group Pty. Ltd., a forest, forest industry and bioenergy consulting firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Rod has 27 years experience in the Australian and international forestry sector, principally in project management, resource, wood/fibre supply, valuation, industry, utilisation, carbon, and bioenergy projects. He has a BSc (Forestry) 1979 from the Australian National University. Rod has worked throughout Asia-Pacific as well as North and South America and South Africa. He has undertaken around 300 projects in 21 countries. His topic at this conference will be Kyoto and Post- Kyoto Forest Carbon Protocols and Investment Opportunities.

Dennis Neilson, Director, DANA Ltd, New Zealand (also part of Organising
Committee)
Dennis Neilson 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.

Juan Prados, Socio Director, Expertos Forestales, Spain
Juan Prados Edwards is a Forest Engineer by the Madrid Polytechnic Institute, MBA by ESADE Business School and a Master Degree in Enology and Viticulture.

He has developed most of his professional career at the ENCE Group where he was Forestry Operations Manager and General Manager for Portugal. He is now Executive Partner at Expertos Forestales Agrupados being responsible for wood and biomass trading.

He also is member of the Board of the CEI-Bois (European Confederation of Woodworking Industries) and Chairman of the European initiative Living With Wood.

Don Roberts, Managing Director, CIBC World Markets Inc
Mr. Roberts is a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets Inc., an investment bank with 23 offices around the world and over 2,600 employees. He leads CIBC’s Paper & Forest Products Research Team, and is also responsible for the bio-fuels sector. His primary responsibility is to lead a team of analysts in advising financial institutions (e.g., pension/mutual funds) on their investments in the global paper & forest products industry. He is consistently ranked by institutional investor surveys as one of the top equity research analysts covering the forest products industry.

He specializes in international commodity markets, and has collaborated with a number of international forestry organizations to gain a global perspective on the paper & forest products sector. He has over 30 years of experience related to various aspects of the forest products sector. Prior to joining the investment business, he was Chief of Industry and Trade Analysis with the Canadian Forest Service.

• In addition to his work with CIBC World Markets Inc., Mr. Roberts is also

• An Adjunct Professor in the Department of Forest Resource Management at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver);

• Guest Scholar, IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria);

• On the Board of Executives of the Sloan Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia); and

• Serves in an advisory capacity for a range of government, industry, and NGO groups.

Mr. Roberts has a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of British Columbia, a Master’s degree in Forestry Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, and both an MBA and doctoral studies in International Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago.

Jussi Silventoinen, Head of Forest Industry Consulting, Indufor Oy, Finland
Mr Silventoinen holds a M. Sc. in Forestry (Forest Products Marketing) from the University of Helsinki and has close to 15 years of experience in the forest products industry and consulting. He has extensive experience both in North America and Europe. In recent years, he has also worked on several projects in Russia, Chile and China. Mr. Silventoinen has supervised and participated in various types of consulting projects including investment planning and feasibility studies, due diligence work, market research projects, sawmill and panel plant acquisition analysis, industry benchmarking, and raw material supply studies.

Prior to his current position at Indufor, he worked as a senior consultant at The Beck Group (a forest industry consulting firm) in Portland, Oregon.

Tom Wright, Research Director, Hawkins-Wright London, UK
Established in 1982, Hawkins Wright is an independent market research consultancy to the forest products industry.

The core business of Hawkins Wright is the publication of regular multi-client reports on World Market Pulp Demand Supply, Costs and Prices. In addition to the tri-annual “Outlook” forecasting service, Hawkins Wright publishes a monthly newsletter, “Pulpwatch” which provides statistics and commentaries on the global pulp market, printing and writing markets, and general economic conditions.

Due to the accuracy of the price forecast Hawkins Wright has been commissioned on a private basis to undertake long term market feasibility studies for major investments, primarily in Latin America and Asia.

The third regular multi-client report is ‘Defining the China Market for Pulp, Paper, and Board’ . First published in March 2003, it is generally recognised as the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of China’s industry. More recently, Hawkins Wright has published a comprehensive analysis of the Asian market for Fine Papers, and ‘Defining the Indian market for Pulp, Paper, and Board’.

Tom Wright joined Hawkins Wright Ltd in September 1998. Since his first field trip to the Philippines in 1998 Tom has travelled regularly to Asia and is the principal author of the Asian multi-client studies. He works on all of the regular Hawkins Wright publications and private client studies, and is the principal author of the Asian reports. Tom frequently addresses private meetings and industry conferences around the world.

Tom holds a BA Hons degree from Newcastle University in Economics & Spanish and worked in Financial services for two years in central London before joining Hawkins Wright. Tom lives in London with his wife and 2 young daughters.