::The Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies::

About the Faculty:

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH – Jacquelyn D. McNutt

Jacquelyn, formerly President and CEO of Jaakko Pöyry Consulting North America, presently serves as Senior Industry Advisor and Head of the Board of Advisors for Forestweb, Inc., is President of her own management consulting firm – Degrees of Excellence, and is the Executive Director of the Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies. Jacquelyn also serves on the Governing Board of Directors of the World Forestry Center (WFC) and the Board of Directors of the Paper Industry Management Association (PIMA).

She also previously served in executive positions at Georgia-Pacific/Great Northern Nekoosa, Jefferson Smurfit/Container Corporation of America, and Potlatch, as well as in forest products and management sciences related academic positions at the University of Washington and Oregon State University. She has a comprehensive educational background, which includes a B.S. in Industrial Engineering, a joint MBA/M.S. in Managerial Sciences and Forestry and a PhD in Forest Managerial Science. Jacquelyn has extensive international forest products education, research, management, marketing, business development and consulting experience.

Jacquelyn’s product line background covers all paper and wood products grades and fiber and timberland. Her geographic work expertise is also broad, including experience in North America, Latin America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia-Pacific. In her thirty-year career, her aggregate experiences include positions as a researcher; faculty member; and university department head, consultant, as well as senior management assignments for major integrated forest products enterprises covering line/staff management; strategic/capital planning and business investment/ development.