Steven R. Rogel (born October 25, 1942) is an American chemical engineer and businessman who worked in the
pulp and paper industry
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard and other cellulose-based products.
Manufacturing process
The pulp is fed to a paper machine where it is formed as a paper web an ...
in a career that spanned from 1965 to 2009. Rogel rose be become president and chairman of Weyerhaeuser. Rogel has been a member of the company's board of directors since December 1, 1997, and was elected chairman and CEO on April 20, 1999. He has served as chairman in a non-executive capacity since Daniel Fulton became president and CEO in May 2008.
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University of Washington
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graduate, he received his
Bachelor of Science
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degree in
chemical engineering
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in 1965. He has also completed executive education programs at the
Tuck School of Business
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Founded in ...
and the
MIT Sloan School of Management
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.
He was president and chief executive officer of
Willamette Industries
Willamette Industries, Inc. was a Fortune 500 forest products company based in Portland, Oregon, United States. when he joined Weyerhaeuser; the company later bought out Willamette in a hostile takeover in 2002.
Steven Rogel is a member of the
National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America
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The board is led by the national chair, a volunteer elected by the Nat ...