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Charlie
Hodges
President/Chief Executive Officer
Charlie earned a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from the Georgia
Institute of Technology is 1975. He began his career with Union Camp
Corporation in Savannah, Georgia holding a variety of positions before
joining Georgia-Pacific in 1990 at the Monticello Mississippi Mill as
Technical Director. He then served as Maintenance and Engineering
Manager, Production Manager and Operations Manager. In 1994 Hodges was
promoted to the position of Senior Director Manufacturing Services for
the 40 corrugated plants that GP owned. In the mid 1990s Hodges headed
the Mill Improvement Process for Georgia-Pacific, working with all the
mills and packaging plants in reducing cost and enhancing throughput.
Hodges was named General Manager of the Leaf River Pulp Operation in
1999. The following year he was appointed an officer of the company. In
2000 he became Vice President and General Manager of the Crossett Paper
Operations. He assumed his final responsibilities, Senior Vice President
for GP, in July 2002. He currently sits on a number of boards including
Port Townsend Paper Corporation, the Technical Association for The Pulp
and Paper Industry and is a member of the North Carolina State University
Pulp and Paper Foundation.
Joe Beers
Senior Vice President, Packaging
Joe held various positions of increasing responsibility during his
previous Port Townsend Paper career that began in 1988. Those roles
included Technical Director, Assistant Paper Machine and Finishing
Manager, Portland Plant Manager and Vice President, Converting
Operations. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Evergreen
State College. Shortly after the bag plants in Portland, Oregon and Port Townsend were shut down in December 2001, Joe left the company to pursue
outside opportunities. As of August 1, 2003, he returned to Port Townsend
Paper.
Roger
Loney
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Mill Operations
Roger is a seasoned Mill Manager who has significant experience in
turning around poor performing assets. Roger has both a Forestry Degree
and MBA from the University of Maine. He held positions of increasing
importance with both Great Northern Paper and Bowater Inc. At Bowater,
Roger was Vice President and Resident Manager at both the Liverpool, Nova Scotia and Calhoun, TN mills. He completed his career with Bowater as Vice President
Newsprint Operations, having responsibility for six mills. Most recently
Roger was General Manager for SP Newsprint Co. in Dublin, GA.
John
Cherry
Director of Operations, Canadian
Divisions
John is the Plant Manager for Crown Packaging Alberta, in Calgary. He has been with Crown for three years, serving in a range of senior management
roles. He has brought operations management experience with him from
Labatt Brewing in New Westminster, and has a total of sixteen years of
experience in production management positions. John holds a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Business with a Management major.
James
Devries
Vice President, Corrugated Sales
James is Director of Sales for the Okanagan & Alberta areas. He
received his diploma in Marketing Management from BCIT in 1988 and began
his career with Crown Packaging in 1989 as a customer service
representative, and he rapidly moved to the position of corrugated sales
representative in Edmonton, Alberta in 1990. James held several other
Crown Packaging sales representative roles in Richmond, B.C. and Calgary, Alberta before moving to the corrugated sales manager position in 1999.
Chuck
Madison
Vice President, Human Resources
Chuck has been a human resources manager since 1985. He has spent over 25
years working in various human resources positions in the pulp and paper
industry. For most of his career, he worked for Rayonier Inc. at mills in
Port Angeles WA, Fernandina Beach FL, and Jesup GA. He came to Port
Townsend in February 1998. Chuck was promoted to the position of Vice
President Human Resources in March 2001. Besides Human Resources,
included in his areas of responsibility is public relations for the
company. He is a 1972 graduate of Washington State University with a
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with emphasis in Personnel
Management.
Eveleen
Muehlethaler
Vice President, Environmental Affairs
Eveleen is responsible for corporate oversight for environmental
compliance. She earned her BS in Chemistry and Biology from Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa and her MS degree in Pulp and Paper from the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin. She started her career with Port Townsend
Paper in December 1983, as Technical Superintendent. In 1991, she became
Paper Machine Superintendent. The management responsibility for the
Finishing, Shipping and Order Entry departments was added to that
position in 1993. In 1997, she became Fiber Optimization Manager with
responsibility for process optimization. In 1998 she was promoted to the
position of Area Manager, Technical Services. Eveleen assumed corporate
responsibilities in October 2001, when she became Corporate Technical Services
Manager. In 2003, she became Vice President & Assistant Mill Manager
and in 2008, she was promoted to Vice President, Environmental Affairs.
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