Arizona Forest
Restoration Products Inc.
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Leadership  Chairman of the Board: Donald B. Walters, Jr. A native of Prescott, AZ, Don Walters has an impressive background combining construction, management experience, and real estate investments. As Division Manager of Southwest Desert Builder, then as owner of Primary Systems Services Group, LLC, his main company until his investment in AZFRP, he directly managed over 250 people and averaged over $27 million a year in revenue. In addition to the responsibilities inherent in the ownership of the company, Don had a very active role in operations and oversaw directly day-to-day operations, coordination of field activities, conformance to customer requirements, and final approval of all specialty equipment designs and configurations for a number of major construction projects for hi-tech leaders in the Phoenix area such as: Acme Electric, Inc., Motorola, Inc., SGS Thomson Microelectronics, Intel Corp., etc. Don also successfully completed a number of non technical projects for major corporate entities such as: American Express Corp., Phoenix General North Hospital, Borders Books, Tower Plaza Shopping Center, Air Liquide, etc. Don received his education in Business Management at the Maricopa College; in Aeronautical Science at the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; and in Leadership at the Leadership Development Forum. Don is very involved with the Northern Arizona Building Association (NABA), which he presided in 2004. He also was a National Director for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and he is currently a Board Member for the Environmental Issues Committee of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
 President & Chief Executive Officer: Pascal Berlioux Pascal was born and raised in France where he received his education at the Special Military Academy of Saint Cyr, the French equivalent to West Point. In addition to his 6 years of prep school and military academy curriculum, the equivalent of a Master’s degree in Sciences, Pascal received a Bachelor’s degree in History from the prestigious La Sorbonne University in Paris. Pascal first had a few years of rapid career growth in engineering startups and turnovers in France, including being Production Manager for a wood panels manufacturing plant, Industrialization Manager for the largest wood furniture factory in France, and Project Manager, then Plant Manager for the first wood & cement panels production plant in Europe, which he built and started. He then came to the United States over 20 years ago to open the subsidiary of a French electronics company. Soon after, he created his own optoelectronics company and ran it for 8 years before selling it to become the starting block of Voltarc Technologies’ Optoelectronics Division. As Vice President and General Manager he developed and led this business unit for another 8 years, first as a private company, then through its acquisition by PerkinElmer, a publicly traded global provider of Analytical Sciences, Fluid Sciences, and Optoelectronics. At the same time, Pascal earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the renowned University of New Haven, Connecticut; a 6 Sigma Black Belt from Air Academy Associates; and a Certificate from PerkinElmer's Advanced Leadership Institute. In 2002 Pascal joined College America, a for-profit postsecondary education company, to expand the Utah & Colorado based organization to Arizona. As Executive Director, Pascal created the Flagstaff campus of College America, then, as Regional Director, he opened in 2004 a second campus in Phoenix. He was in the process of creating a third campus in Tucson when in 2005 Career Education Corporation, CEC, the second largest post-secondary for-profit education company in the world invited him to take the leadership of Brooks College in Sunnyvale, CA, one of its 80 campuses across the U.S. Pascal’s talent was “captured” back to Flagstaff by Don Walters in August 2006 to create the Arizona Forest Restoration Products business plan, lead its execution, and assume full responsibility for AZFRP’s operations. Pascal and Don have an established relationship of mutual trust, respect, and appreciation that was developed when Pascal contracted Don’s company, Primary Systems Services Group, to build the two campuses that he created for College America in Flagstaff and Phoenix. Pascal is currently completing the dissertation of his Ph.D. in Business Management, concentration in Leadership, with Northcentral University, and expects to receive his doctoral degree in late 2007/early 2008. Based on a 20 year track record of successful accomplishments as chief executive, Pascal’s leadership brings to Arizona Forest Restoration Products a strong vision, great clarity of purpose, solid core values, a deep understanding of business, and an intense focus on execution.
 Senior Vice President of Engineering: Don MacInnes As owner and principal of Eugene Forest Systems Ltd., Don MacInnes (“Don Mac”) has extensive experience in the development of Oriented Strand Board (OSB) manufacturing plants with involvement in construction, engineering, management services, interfacing and start-up procedures. Don Mac’s companies have had a peak employment of over 500 people and have averaged $35 millions in revenue for the last 25 years. Don Mac is directly responsible for overall operations, safety procedures and interfacing engineering and construction tasks at Eugene Forest Systems Ltd. Don Mac received his education in Mechanical Engineering at the University Naval Division of the University of British Columbia; in Fire Protection Design and Trade Certification at the British Columbia Institute of Technology; and in Fire Protection Engineering at Purdue University. Don Mac has led to successful completion the creation of 7 OSB plants in North America, including: Pelican Spruce Mills Edson, Alberta (1981); Pelican Spruce Mills Drayton Valley, Alberta (1985); Ainsworth Lumber Co. 100 Mile House, B.C. (1993); Ainsworth Lumber Co. Grand Prairie, Alberta (1994); Weyerhaeuser Canada Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan (1999); Footner Forest Products High Level, Alberta (2000); Sloan/L.P. Fort St. John, B.C. (2004); and the modernization of 10 OSB plants in North America, including: MacMillan Bloedel Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan (1983); Pelican Spruce Mills Edson, Alberta (1985); Weldwood of Canada Slave Lake, Alberta (1986); Weldwood of Canada Long Lac, Ontario (1986); Weyerhaeuser Canada Drayton Valley, Alberta (1990); Weyerhaeuser Canada Edson, Alberta (1992); Ainsworth Lumber Co. 100 Mile House, B.C. (2000); Ainsworth Lumber Co. Grande Prairie, Alberta (2002); Ainsworth Lumber Co. Grande Prairie; Alberta (2004); Louisiana Pacific Swan Valley, Manitoba (2005). Don Mac is a well recognized leading figure in the North American OSB industry, and his support, engagement, and commitment bring tremendous credibility to the Arizona Forest Restoration Products project.
 Strategic Sales & Marketing Consultant: Brian Wilson Brian has 26 years of experience in strategic marketing analysis, including a 7 year tenure with the prestigious firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, working with leading national and international companies to develop corporate growth strategies including expansion and acquisitions, new product development, operations and profit improvement, re-positioning strategies and developing preemptive strategies to counter competitive threats. He has completed analyses in almost 50 countries and is an expert in quantitative methods and demand forecasting, with experience in direct mail marketing, telecommunications, consumer goods and more than a dozen different retail segments. Brian specializes in measuring, understanding, predicting and managing consumer behavior. He designed and developed Consumer Enhancement & Development, a fact-based methodology and analysis tool to assist organizations drive double-digit sales gains and improve profit margins by better understanding and satisfying the needs of their most important customers. He also created a tool called Maximizing Marketing ROI to optimize operations and marketing processes and assist organizations in allocating scarce marketing dollars across their value chain. Brian received both his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University. He has addressed various international trade organizations, industry conferences and universities, and was a contributing author of a graduate level textbook. He also authored a paper, ‘Development and Testing of a Sales Forecasting Model for Retail Chains’ and was selected from world-wide call for papers to present at a Market Measurement and Analysis conference sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute held at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
 General Counsel: Whitney Cunningham Born and raised in Flagstaff, AZ, Whitney earned his bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) from Northern Arizona University, and received his Juris Doctor degree (magna cum laude) from The Georgetown University Law Center, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Georgetown Law Journal. He returned to Flagstaff in 1993 following a clerkship on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Whitney has been practicing in the areas of corporate, real estate and construction law for 13 years. He has helped start, and represents, numerous multi-million dollar companies in the Flagstaff area. Don and Whitney have a long standing relation of trust and mutual appreciation developed during Whitney’s representation of Don’s numerous and substantial interests in Northern Arizona. Whitney is also a member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Arizona, representing the State’s northern counties in that organization, and is active on the board of several foundations and non-profit organizations. |
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