Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> April 7, 2003

Roger Ollila – Jack Rouse Associates

ROGER OLLILA is Controller at Jack Rouse Associates. In that role, he is responsible for many of the financial and administrative activities that keep the company running smoothly, including financial statement preparation, cash management, accounts receivable management and accounts payable management. He also assists Vice President Dan Schultz in handling the company's human resources responsibilities. Since joining JRA in 1999, Mr. Ollila has worked hand-in-hand with the firm's senior management to help the company work more efficiently. His long- term project has been to change the company's accounting system to the percentage-of-completion accounting method. Prior to joining JRA, he worked as the Financial Controller at M. Bohlke Veneer Company in Fairfield, Ohio, where he had many of the same responsibilities that accompany his position at JRA. He graduated from Western Michigan University in 1982. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief historical sketch of Jack Rouse

Associates and a picture of the company as it is now?

Mr. Ollila: Jack Rouse Associates has been in existence since

1987. It was