Steven Rogel

Steven R. Rogel ( born October 25, 1942 in Ritzville ) is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Group Weyerhaeuser.

Life

Steven Rogel studied at the University of Washington, which he left in 1965 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. There were also other training programs at the Tuck School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1965 he started working for the St. Regis Paper Company. There he remained until he moved to St. Anne Nackawic Pulp - and Paper in Nackawic, Canada in 1970, the company he left in 1972 to Technical Director of Western power -. Shortly thereafter part of Willamette Industries - to Albany, Oregon, be. At Willamette Industries was Steven Rogel 1979 Vice President, 1988 Executive Vice President and three more years later President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. On 1 October 1995, he was the successor of William Swindells as President and Chief Executive Officer. Willamette Industries was in the following years one of the most lucrative businesses in the forestry sector and generated an annual return on investment of 21 percent.

1997, the company Weyerhaeuser went to Steven Rogal approach with the offer, President and CEO of the Company to be to remodel it. Rogel accepted the offer, much to the displeasure of Swindells, who is a "betrayal" saw. Rogel immediately began restructuring Weyerhaeusers.