Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (LP) (NYSE: LPX) announced today several
internal changes to its executive management team. The organizational
changes will be effective March 1, 2015.
Mike Sims named Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Louisiana-Pacific Corp. effective March 1. (Photo: Business Wire)
CEO Curt Stevens said, “These changes provide opportunities for LP to
benefit from the shared perspectives and best practices across
businesses as we continue to develop our top leadership talent.”
The changes effective March 1 include:
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Mike Sims will become senior vice president sales and marketing. He
will replace Rick Olszewski, executive vice president of sales,
marketing and South America, who is retiring from LP at the end of
March. Frederick Price, president of LP South America, will report
directly to Stevens.
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Brad Southern will become executive vice president OSB, replacing Jeff
Wagner, who will retire from LP mid-year. In the interim, Wagner will
be executive vice president Growth and Innovation, reporting directly
to Stevens.
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Brian Luoma will serve as executive vice president Siding, replacing
Southern in that position.
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Neil Sherman will become senior vice president, EWP, replacing Luoma
in that position.
Stevens continued, “LP is very fortunate to have a strong bench of
management talent; these team members represent decades of industry and
LP experience. We were able to make these moves internally as a result
of the talent pool within LP and our robust succession planning process.
I look forward to continuing to work with these executives in their new
roles to lead us into the future, as we benefit from an improving
housing market and aggressively build our growth and innovation
capabilities.”
“I would also like to thank Rick Olszewski and Jeff Wagner for their
important contributions to LP,” concluded Stevens. “Our sales and
marketing organization has never been more customer focused, and our OSB
business is strong, efficient, and the safest in the industry.”
Sims has worked in building products in various sales and marketing
capacities since 1984. Prior to joining LP, he served as area sales
manager for Abitibi-Price Corporation and the director of marketing and
vice president sales for ABTco Building Products. He has most recently
held the position at LP of vice president OSB sales and marketing. Sims
holds a B.A. from Western State Colorado University.
Southern joined LP in 1999. He has led LP’s Siding business since 2005,
and was previously vice president of specialty operations. Southern
began his career with MacMillan Bloedel as a forester, where he held a
variety of positions in forestry, strategic planning, finance,
accounting and plant management. He has a B.S. in Forest Resources and a
master’s in Forest Resources, both from the University of Georgia.
Luoma has been with LP since 1987 and has headed the engineered wood
products business since 2006. In his time with LP, Luoma has held a
variety of positions, including director of forest resources, northern
regional operations manager OSB, and more recently he served as vice
president of procurement, supply management and logistics. He holds a
B.S. in Forestry from Humboldt State University, and has completed the
Executive Development Program at the University of Tennessee Center for
Executive Education.
Sherman joined LP in 1994. Most recently, he served as vice president of
procurement, logistics and supply management. He previously was the
project manager of LP’s successful ERP implementation and has held the
director business development, and corporate real estate position for
LP. Sherman holds a B.S. in Waste and Waste Water Management from
Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.
About LP
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation is a leading manufacturer of
quality engineered wood building materials including OSB, structural
framing products, and exterior siding for use in residential,
industrial and light commercial construction. From manufacturing
facilities in the U.S., Canada, Chile and Brazil, LP products are sold
to builders and homeowners through building materials distributors and
dealers and retail home centers. Founded in 1973, LP is headquartered in
Nashville, Tennessee and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under
LPX. For more information, visit www.lpcorp.com.
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