MEDIA RELEASE PR35849
RISI Announces New Leadership for Lumber, Wood Panels and Timber Forecasting Services
BOSTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Release Highlights:
- Bob Berg returns to head up Lumber Practice
- Bernard Fuller to assume lead of Wood Panels Practice
- Peter Barynin rejoins to run Timber Practice
RISI, the leading information provider for the global forest products
industry, today announced the return of two of its founders, Bob Berg and
Bernard Fuller to head up RISI's North American Lumber and North American
Wood Panels Forecasting Services respectively. In addition, former RISI
Director Peter Barynin returns to take the lead on RISI's North American
Timber Forecasting Service.
Bob Berg returns to RISI, after having left in 2007 to pursue other wood
market opportunities. Bob has spent over 25 years following the North
American solid wood markets, specializing in price forecasting. Bob is a
founding member of RISI and built many of its solid wood and engineered
lumber models along with segments of the timber and panel models. During his
tenure from 1985 to 2007, Bob mentored many of the economists following the
North American lumber markets.
Bernard Fuller, also a founding member of RISI, specializes in the
end-use markets for wood products (wood-based panels and lumber). Over the
past quarter century, Bernard has led analysis on the panelboard (softwood
plywood, oriented strandboard, medium density fibreboard and particleboard)
and treated wood products markets. Bernard has been with RISI from 1985 to
present, most recently contributing to RISI's monthly and quarterly forecasts
for panel, engineered wood products and lumber markets and will now return to
the role full time.
Peter Barynin rejoins RISI, where he previously held the title of
Director of the North American Timber Forecasting Service, with over 15 years
of experience as a forest industry economist. Most recently, Peter was
founder and Chief Economist for Resource Vision Inc., which conducts research
and analysis on global wood fiber issues and the intricacies of the timber
markets.
These appointments add to the existing strong team of economists, editors
and analysts covering wood, timber and biomass at RISI. The team includes Bob
Flynn, Director of International Timber Analysis, Chris Lyddan, Executive
Editor Timber and Woodfiber, William Perritt, Editor Wood Biomass Market
Report, and Ken Tennefoss and the Crow's team looking at the lumber markets.
Mike Coffey, RISI's CEO commented, "I'm very happy to have Bob, Bernie
and Peter re-joining us. The transition to this team has been absolutely
seamless, ensuring a consistent view for our customers. Together they bring
unique perspectives and broad experiences which coupled with RISI's
unparallel depth of historical data and economic modeling will allow us to
continue to provide an important practical set of contributions to our
clients -- something others cannot provide." Coffey continued, "The wood
products and even timber industries have gone through tremendous change these
past few years and we need to offer quality information and services to our
customers who are under more pressure than ever. The addition of Bob, Bernie
and Peter to our stable of industry leading economists ensures RISI is in a
position to meet this challenge."
Berg, Fuller and Barynin will all be attending and presenting the
following topics at RISI's 24th North American Forest Products Conference on
September 14-16 in San Diego:
- Bob Berg - the North American End-Use Markets & and the North American
Lumber Outlook;
- Bernard Fuller - the North American Structural Panel Outlook, the North
American Non-Structural Panel Outlook and the North American Engineered
Wood Products Outlook;
- Peter Barynin - the North American Timber Outlook
Berg, Fuller and Barynin will be working out of RISI's Bedford, MA office
and can be reached as follows:
- Bob Berg +1.781.734.8914 or via e-mail at bberg@risi.com
- Bernard Fuller +1.781.734.8913 or via e-mail at bfuller@risi.com
- Peter Barynin +1.781.734.8912 or via e-mail at pbarynin@risi.com
About RISI
RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products
industry. The company works with clients in the pulp and paper, wood
products, wood biomass, tissue, timber, non-wovens, printing and publishing
and financial services industries to help them make better decisions.
Headquartered in Boston (Bedford), Massachusetts, RISI operates offices
in Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; Portland,
Oregon; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Shanghai, China; Singapore; Helsinki, Finland; and
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Press Contact
Dan Blenk, RISI Marketing Director
4 Alfred Circle
Bedford, MA 01730
Tel: +1.781.734.8942
dblenk@risi.com
SOURCE: RISI
CONTACT: Dan Blenk,
RISI Marketing Director,
+1-781-734-8942,
dblenk@risi.com
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