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Mads Asprem
Managing Director
Green Resources
Mads Asprem, born in 1961 in Norway holds a BSc in Economics from Wharton School, USA, (1983), and an MBA from the University of Chicago, USA (1987). He started his career as portfolio manager of Storebrand in 1984 and was a consultant of Monitor Company from 1987-89. He worked for CSFB as equity analyst and joined Morgan Stanley in the same function in 1991, where he later was appointed Managing Director and was head of forest products and paper global research team of Morgan Stanley. From 2000 to 2005 Mads worked for Merrill Lynch as the first Vice President, equity analyst and head of the global forest products and paper research team.
He established Green Resources AS in 1995, served as Chairman from 2004-6 and took over as Managing Director in 2006. Green Resources is a plantation, carbon offset, forest products and renewable energy company. The Company was established in 1995, employs 1,500 people, has invested more than NOK 200 mill (US$40 mn) of equity in its African operations since the start. Green Resources has activities in Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique and has been the largest afforestation company in Africa during the last 10 years.
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Prof. Michael Braungart
Professor of Process Engenieering
University of Lüneburg
MICHAEL BRAUNGART is a chemist and founder of EPEA International Umweltforschung GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, and co-founder of MBDC McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
After completing his studies in Process Engineering in Darmstadt, Germany, Dr. Braungart went on to explore the chemical processes of industrial production techniques with the Chemistry Department at Konstanz, Germany. He subsequently spearheaded the formation of the Chemistry Section of Greenpeace International. By the time he completed his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Hannover in 1985, he had assumed leadership of Greenpeace Chemistry.
Dr. Braungart is currently a professor of Process Engineering at Universität Lüneburg (Germany). Recently, he accepted a visiting professorship at the Darden School of Business, lecturing on such topics as eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness, Cradle-to-Cradle design and Intelligent Materials Pooling.
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Emanuele Bona
Vice President Europe, Pulp & Paper Products Council
Director General, CEPIPRINT, Chairman of PRIMA
Emanuele Bona was born in 1968 in Turin, Italy. He graduated with a degree in Economics at the Turin University and went on to work as commercial assistant and marketing manager for Cartiere Burgo, the largest paper producer in Italy. He joined CEPIPRINT in 1999 and worked as Director of Market Research & Development in Zurich before the association was relocated to Brussels in 2002. In January of that year he took over the responsibility as Director General of CEPIPRINT. CEPIPRINT, the Association of European Publication Paper Producers, represents the industry sectors of Europe´s newsprint and magazine paper grades and has its main focus in providing its members with high quality statistical data and analysis.
As from June 2005 Emanuele has also taken responsibility as Vice President, Europe, for the Pulp and Paper Products Council (PPPC), based in Montreal, Canada. PPPC is an alliance of product associations serving an international membership in the pulp and paper industry. PPPC membership today accounts for close to 70% of global market pulp capacity and more than 50% of world communication papers capacity (newsprint and printing & writing papers).
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Leif Brodén
President & CEO, Södra
Leif Brodén, born in 1960, has been President and CEO of the Södra Group since May 2004. He also holds the position of chairman of various companies like Södra Cell AB, Södra Timber AB, Gapro AB and STFI-Packforsk AB, as well as the Swedish Forest Industries Federation agreements committee for the pulp and paper industry. He is also a member of the board of the Swedish Forest Industries Federation, Kornäs AB and Växjö University.
His previous employments include the positions of managing director of Scanpac (Australia) Pty Ltd. (1989 - 1994) and managing director of Stora Paperboard (1994 - 1998). In 1999 Mr Brodén was appointed president of Södra Cell AB.
Mr Brodén is married to Kerstin and has two daughters Agnes and Astrid.
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Erik Bruce
Chief Analyst
Nordea Marekts
Erik is chief analyst in Nordea Markets. His main responsibility is to follow the Norwegian economy and the market for interest rates and exchange rates. Erik presents the banks view both on the domestic and international economy for domestic and international clients.
Previously Erik worked in the Ministry of Finance and the consultant firm ECON.
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Robert A. Latham
Sustainability Director
PaperlinX Europe
Bob has recently been appointed Sustainability Director for PaperlinX Europe. PaperlinX is the world´s largest multi-continent merchanting group with both paper manufacturing and merchanting operations in Australasia and merchanting companies throughout the rest of the world. Sustainability and environmental responsibility has featured heavily in Bob´s previous career, which includes 15 years with the UK based PaperlinX subsiduary Robert Horne Group, as both Marketing and Commercial Director. Prior to that, Bob worked for luxury paper convertor Svecia Antiqua, that followed 9 years with paper maker Wiggins Teape during which time he managed the Conqueror brand worldwide in the 1980s.
Bob is a family man with a wife, twin teenage girls and a ´sustainable population´ of assorted furry animals at his home in Bedfordshire in the UK.
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Olli-Petteri Lehtinen
Executive Vice President
Corporate Merchant Banking Finland
Nordea Bank
Olli-Petteri Lehtinen holds a Master of Science degree in Business Administartion (1985). He started his career in management consulting, working for five years in Service Management Group. During that time he worked with several leading Finnish and European companies mainly in Financial and Pulp and Paper sector.
In 1990 he joined Union Bank of Finland, where he worked in various business development positions until moving into line manager positions in the retail network. Since then he held several senior positions in the re-structuring of the Finnish banking sector, where UBF first merged to Merita bank, then MeritaNordbanken and then to Nordea Bank.
In 2000-01 Mr Lehtinen returned to consulting as a partner and co-owner of the CRM Group Oy, a consulting company specialised in customer realtionship management. During that time he was responsible for the business-to-business operations of the group. His main focus at that time was helping large corporates managing their strategic customers.
In 2001 Lehtinen re-joined the Nordea Group and since then he has been responsible for large corporate banking in Finland and in Sweden. Presently he is heading the Corporate Merchant Banking unit in Finland. In this position he also supervises Nordea´s Pulp&Paper Industry Group.
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Olav Mugaas
Executive Vice President
Media Norway
Mr Olav Mugaas is Executive Vice President of Media Norway. Prior to his current responsibility he served as CEO of Aftenposten AS (1996-2007) and held various leading positions in the media business as from 1978. Mr Mugaas has also been chairman of the board of FINN.no from the start of the company.
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Jyrki Ovaska
President
UPM Magazine Papers Division
Mr Jyrki Ovaska is President of UPM Magazine Papers Division and a member of the UPM Executive Team since January 2002. He is based in the UPM-Kymmene Corporation´s head office in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to assuming the current position in early 2004 Mr Ovaska was President, UPM Fine & Speciality Papers for 2 years.
Mr Ovaska has 25 years of experience in the paper industry after having graduated in the Helsinki University of Technology. He has conducted post-graduate studies at the Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt in Germany in the mid 1980s.
Mr Ovaska began his career at the Finnish Pulp & Paper Institute in 1983 and later joined United Paper Mills Ltd in 1984. He had an 11 year long tenure in the Jämsänkoski mills holding several positions in production, technical service and business unit management. As a result of the UPM-Kymmene merger in 1996 Mr Ovaska moved to the company head office in Helsinki to assume VP and SVP positions in the years 1996 2001 in the areas of Business Development, LWC Product Group in UPM´s paper divisions.
He is a board member of CEPIPRINT, the Association of European Publication Paper Producers and in the Finnish-American Chamber of Commerce in Helsinki. He was a board member and vice-chairman in the Finnish Pulp & Paper Research Institute in 2002-2004 and became inducted to the Association of International Business Leaders in 2004.
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Franz Rappold
Member of the Management Board
Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG
Franz Rappold, born in 1952, graduated from the "Höhere Technische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt" in Vienna with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1977.
Prior to that, in 1972, he joined the Vienna-based company Austrowaren, starting in the packaging machines assembly department, and subsequently moved to the sales department. In 1978, he was appointed Head of the Packaging Department and Assistant to the General Manager.
Franz Rappold joined Mayr-Melnhof Karton in 1983 as Sales Manager Europe and was promoted to the position of Sales Director Europe in 1985. After having held the positions of Sales and Marketing Director of the worldwide Mayr-Melnhof Cartonboard Group (1991) and Managing Director of Mayr-Melnhof Karton Ges.m.b.H (1994), he took over Marketing & Sales of Mayr-Melnhof Asia in 1997. Since 2002, Mr. Rappold has been a Member of the Management Board.
Between 1978 and 1982, he travelled extensively abroad for market and product evaluations in various countries, especially in North America and Japan.
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Christian Rynning-Tønnesen
CEO and President
Norske Skog
Christian Rynning-Tønnesen has been with Norske Skog since April 1, 2005. His former positions within the company were CFO and Senior Vice President of Finance, from 2005 to 2006.
After graduating with an MSc in engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, he started his career as a Researcher at Sintef from 1984 to 1985.
After that, he moved on to Esso Norge, where he served as a Refinery analyst and product coordinator from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Rynning-Tonnesen was appointed Consultant and Energy Specialist at McKinsey from 1989 to 1992.
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Paul Sheridan
Co-founder, Stepchange Consulting
Paul Sheridan is co-founder of StepChange Consulting. Previously, he worked for five years as a management consultant with a large international management consulting and technology firm. In addition to his consulting experience, Paul has worked for a merchant bank for two years in project finance and has nine years of sales and project management experience for an engineering contractor. He has a background in economics, holds a BA in Economics & Politics from Durham University and an Executive MBA from Sasin.
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Bill Sneyd
Director of Advisory Services
The CarbonNeutral Company
Bill Sneyd joined The CarbonNeutral Company in 2002 as Interim Sales Director, and was appointed Director of Operations in 2003 where he was responsible for carbon credit procurement and development of The CarbonNeutral Company´s standard - The CarbonNeutral Protocol. He was appointed Director of Advisory Services in 2007. In this role he is responsible for advising clients on the development of their carbon management programmes and for representing The CarbonNeutral Company in the development of standards for the voluntary carbon market. He also has a remit to develop carbon market knowledge and skills within the business as it expands.
Bill has a background of 10 years operational and consultancy experience in a variety of industries including energy and telecoms as well as his climate change & carbon market experience.
Prior to joining The CarbonNeutral Company, Bill spent two years with Diamond Cluster, a firm of Management Consultants specialising in the telecoms and technology sectors. Bill´s assignments while at Diamond Cluster were primarily in the mobile telecoms sector - working for network operators in the Portuguese and Belgian markets on projects covering both commercial and operational issues.
Bill began his career at Shell International as an Operations Engineer in the Exploration and Production Division and following initial training was assigned to Shell´s operating company in the Netherlands. His role here was multi-faceted and covered a number of areas, focussing on plant maintenance and improving operational efficiency of production facilities. In 1997 he was assigned to Shell Oil in the USA where he worked until 1999 on a number of offshore oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Bill has a BSc in Engineering and Management from Durham University and an MBA from INSEAD, the international graduate business school.
Bill speaks Dutch and is a Sainsbury Management Fellow - an organisation whose aim is to develop Engineers as leaders in industry. He is also a Business Mentor for The Princes Trust.
Bill is available for interview around The CarbonNeutral Company´s position on the carbon markets, development of standards and our carbon trading and carbon procurement activities. He can also address the issues that corporates should consider when developing carbon management programmes. In addition, Bill can comment on international policy initiatives in the carbon market such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism.
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Marieke van der Donk
Senior Manager Entertainment & Media
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Marieke van der Donk is Principle Manager at PriceWaterhouse Coopers and one of their top media and publishing experts. She holds an international (OneMBA) master´s degree in Business Administration from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and has extensive and relevant experience with managing large and complex projects in the TICE and Media & Entertainment industry. Marieke has done several international projects including publishing projects for Sanoma Publishers, Consumentenbond and VNU Business Publications London; Managing Performance Improvement project at a directories company; Managing organisational redesign at Media & Entertainment company; Cost reduction programme at a broadcasting company; Review of data management in publishing company; Managing projects with regards to building a business case in a large publishing company; Market consultation for a government department regarding XML services; Programme management at a technology company; Analysis of digital entertainment value chain at a Content Production company; Feasibility study & business case for a multi-media college; Retail distribution strategy for a book publisher.
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Kim Wahl
Chair of the Board of Norske Skog
Kim Wahl (born 1960) is the co-founder and currently the Deputy Chairman of the European Private Equity Company, Industri Kapital. The company was founded in 1989. Prior to this Kim Wahl worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York and in London within Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. In 1984/1985 he held the position as International Marketing Consultant for the Trade Commission of Norway in New York.
Kim Wahl received an MBA from Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration in June 1987. He graduated from University of San Diego in May 1984 with a Bachelors degree in Economics. He also graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy (O/MAIII) in 1980 and served as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy.
Kim Wahl has been a member of the Board of Directors of a number of European companies. Currently Kim Wahl is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Norske Skogindustrier ASA and Voxtra Foundation, as well as member of the Board of Directors of Kwintet AB.
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Gunn Wærsted
Executive Vice President
Nordea
Gunn Wærsted graduated with an MBA in 1979 and started to work with the Andenæs Group AS where she later became Finance Manager. In 1984 she started her extended career within the bank and insurance business with several positions within the investment company Nevi AS before she became Managing Director for the newly established fund management company called Nevi Investor AS in 1987 - DnB Investor after the merger in 1992. Her further career within the DnB Group included the position as Senior Vice President from 1993 with responsibility for Private Banking, DnB Insurance, DnB Investor and DnB Luxembourg, the position as Executive Vice President from 1995 as head of Asset Management Division and from 1996 held the position as Chief Executive Officer of Vital Insurance. In 1999 she also became Chief Executive Vice President of DnB as member of the Group Executive Management with responsibility for Life Insurance Asset Management and Private Banking. In 2002 she moved on to SpareBank1 Group as Chief Executive Officer. In June 2007 she joined Nordea Group as head of Savings & Life Products, Private Banking and People & Identity, Country Senior Executive for Norway and Member of the Group Executive Management. She is also Managing Director of Nordea Bank Norge ASA.
Gunn Wærsted has for many years been one of the most renowned leaders within the finance sector in Norway and has therefore been member of boards, election committees and corporate assemblies of several large companies and organisations. She was among others Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian Financial Services Association (FNH) from 2005 - 2007.
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Robert Wilson
Chairman
Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Ltd, UK
Robert Wilson holds a Masters degree in Business and Forest Management from Oregon State University, as well as a BSc (Forestry) Hons from the Australian National University. Robert started his career in 1973 as Operations Manager at Associated Pulp and Paper Mills, Australia in Papua New Guinea. In 1981, he joined Sandwell Consulting, Canada, as Senior Consultant and two years later he joined Shell International Petroleum Company as Project Manager in the Non-Traditional Business Division.
He returned to the paper world in 1988 at Arjo Wiggins Appleton, with assignments in the UK, Spain and France as Group Business Development Manager and Commercial and Forestry Director. In 1997, he became President of Jaakko Pöyry Management Consulting in the UK and is now Chairman of Pöyry Forest Industry Consulting Ltd.
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