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Mark Sutton became chairman of the International Paper Board of Directors on January 1, 2015, and CEO on November 1, 2014. Immediately prior to becoming CEO, he served as president and chief operating officer with responsibility for leading and running the company’s global businesses. He has been a member of the International Paper Board of Directors since June 1, 2014. Sutton has been with the company his entire career. He joined International Paper in 1984, as an engineer at the Pineville, La., mill. In 1994, he was named mill manager at the Thilmany, Wisc., mill which at the time was part of International Paper’s industrial papers business. In 2000, Sutton relocated to Europe to serve as director of European corrugated packaging operations and was promoted to vice president and general manager responsible for all corrugated packaging operations across seven countries in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region in 2002. In 2005, he was named vice president of corporate strategic planning and relocated to Memphis. He was elected senior vice president, global supply chain, in 2007 and in 2009 became senior vice president, printing and communications papers - the Americas. Sutton was appointed senior vice president, industrial packaging, in November 2011. Sutton serves on the Board of Directors for The Kroger Company. He is a member of the Business Council, serves on the American Forest & Paper Association Board of Directors, the Business Roundtable Board of Directors, and the International Advisory Board of the Moscow School of Management - Skolkovo. He was appointed Chairman of the U.S. Russian Business Council. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Memphis Tomorrow and the Board of Governors for New Memphis Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University.

President, Chief Operating Officer and a director since the Company’s inception in 2005, Mr. Kaplan was Manager of Stone-Kaplan Investments, LLC, a private investment company, from July 2004 through December 2007. He was President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of Box USA Holdings, Inc., a corrugated box manufacturer, from July 2000 until the sale of the company in July 2004. Mr. Kaplan began his career at Stone Container Corporation in 1979 and was serving as its Senior Vice President and General Manager of North American Operations when Stone Container Corporation merged with Jefferson Smurfit Corporation in November 1998. He was Vice President / General Manager Container Division with Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and a director of the company until March 1999. Mr. Kaplan served on the board of directors of Victory Packaging from January 2007 until late 2011. In addition, Mr. Kaplan formerly served on the board of directors of Magnetar Spectrum Fund. He is a director of the American Forest and Paper Association, the Fibre Box Association, and Pacific Millennium Paper Group Limited. Mr. Kaplan received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Senior executive with more than 20 years of success in manufacturing, general management and business development. I've joined Linkedln to assist the community with advice, guidance and contacts in the areas of global business and market development; product development; research and development; transformative change; and how to manage budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Projects we can discuss: serving as a government, research and institutional liaison; improving operations, production control and quality; manpower requirements and capacity planning; and how to lead positive change, create efficiencies and deliver profitability Topics of interest include executing simultaneous initiatives; and supporting internal partners including the sales, marketing, financial and quality teams to develop focus and a clear sense of shared purpose. Please feel free to reach out to me directly via Linkedln mail or send me an email at dmukherjee@nycap.rr.com Specialties: Multi-functional strategic leadership, mentoring; scientific acumen; supply chain; lean six-sigma deployments; quality driven manufacturing; strategic planning and execution; project management and implementations; business transformations and improvements; cross-cultural leadership and team development

Prior to joining ICV, Mr. Wallace was an independent consultant with a firm he founded, Chastain Advisors. Mr. Wallace was involved in a diverse array of roles at Chastain, ranging from interim General Manager for a food business to strategic advisor in both the sales function and pricing disciplines for a number of companies. Prior to Chastain Advisors, Mr. Wallace was a business leader for Georgia-Pacific Corporation in the N.A. and European Consumer Products businesses. Before that, Mr. Wallace spent almost 13 years with The Boston Consulting Group, working in both the Chicago and Atlanta offices, where he was a partner of the firm. Mr. Wallace has a BA degree from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Michael Burandt is a Chairman at Wausau Paper and Pres:North American Consumer at CP&P Inc. He has worked as Board Member at Wausau Paper, Senior VP:Packaged Products at Georgia-Pacific LLC, and Exec VP:North American Consumer at Georgia-Pacific LLC.

Devin W Stockfish is a President & CEO at Weyerhaeuser, Board Member at Weyerhaeuser, and Board Member at WEYERHAEUSER FORESTLANDS INT and is based in Seattle, Washington. He has worked as Senior VP/Gen Cnsl/Secretary at Weyerhaeuser, Senior VP:Timberlands at WEYERHAEUSER FORESTLANDS INT, and Associate at K&L Gates. Devin studied at University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia Law School.

My career was build through various leadership positions within different work environments of larger and smaller companies combined with technical and managerial activities in various positions. This created a wide range of knowledge, experience and personal flexibility and effectiveness. Expanding my International expertise was created through the purchase guidance and takeover of an American / Japanese company. Currently continued as CEO in this US based company with advisory tasks in the Netherlands. Intuition and ratio are well balanced in my daily business. A healthy dose of enthusiasm and creativity combined with knowledge and experience, energize me to organize new opportunities into planned results.

Matt Brandrup is a President and Chief Executive Officer at RESCO and is based in United States.