Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> September 20, 2004
RICHARD H. 'RICK' WOLLENBERG was elected Chairman of the Board in March
2004 and Chief Executive Officer of Longview Fibre Company effective
November 2002. He has held the office of President since October 2001
with responsibilities for all company operations including
manufacturing, sales, timberlands and administrative functions. He has
been a Director since 1995 and is a member of the Executive Committee.
The third-generation Wollenberg to be CEO and Chairman of Longview Fibre
Company, he follows his father Richard P. Wollenberg and his grandfather
Harry L. Wollenberg. Mr. Wollenberg joined Longview Fibre in 1988 as
Assistant General Counsel after working 10 years in Alaska in private
law practice. He was appointed Production Manager for the Western
Container Division in 1993, and advanced to Division Senior Vice
President-Production in 1994, overseeing seven container plants in
Washington, California, Idaho and Utah. In 2000 Mr. Wollenberg was
promoted to Executive Vice President of Longview Fibre with primary
responsibilities involving management of all container and bag
manufacturing and sales. He became President and COO October 1, 2001.
Among his paper industry activities are membership in TAPPI, and he is a
member of the CEO Environmental and Sustainable Forestry Committees of
the American Forest and Paper Association. He is a member of the Board
of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturing and the
Washington Roundtable, where he serves as a member of the Fiscal
Responsibility Committee. He currently serves on the Reed College,
Portland, Oregon, board of Trustees, and on the Board of the World
Forestry Center. Mr. Wollenberg has a BA in Philosophy from Reed College
and a Juris Doctor degree from Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. Profile
and then give us a picture of the things you are doing at the present
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Mr. Wollenberg: Our company began in 1927
