Rick Jaccard, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, TimberWest Forest Corp.

Mr Rick Jaccard is currently representing TimberWest Forest Corporation located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and assumes the role of Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  TimerWest is a major supplier of logs to Asian markets from Canada and is the largest private timber owner in Western Canada. Rick is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in the Faculty of Forestry and is a Registered Professional Forester. Having over 30 years of forest industry experience in British Columbia, Rick has held a variety of posts ranging from harvest engineering and planning to managing timberlands operations.  Most recently Rick has taken on his current role and heads TimberWest‘s log sales and marketing team focusing primarily on log sales into China, Japan, Korea and the US. That combined with domestic log sales, Rick’s group is responsible for the sale of over 3 million m3 of softwood logs annually.

Presentation Outline:

1.  Current factors affecting supply of logs and lumber from both western Canada and the Pacific Northwest region of the United State

• the effects of the Mountain Pine beetle in British Columbia 
• reduced production of logs and lumber from Eastern Canada
• the effects of continuing recovery of the US housing market

2.  The changing dynamics resulting from world currency exchanges and how this affects log flow and trading behavior

3.  The current restrictions on BC log exports imposed by federal and provincial governments and how this regulation impacts the ability to respond to growing demand in Asian markets.