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Roundtable Forum: Paper & Forest Products

PETER RUSCHMEIER is Senior Vice President and Senior Equity Analyst at Lehman Brothers, covering Paper and Forest Products. He was previously associated with DLJ, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Kidder Peabody and Andersen Consulting. Mr. Ruschmeier is a President of the New York Splinter Group (Sell-Side Industry Group). He received a BA in Economics from Brown University in 1989. Profile
MARK WILDE, Managing Director, is Deutsche Bank's senior analyst covering the paper and forest products sector. He has been regularly recognized as one of the best stock pickers in the sector and was the number one sector analyst in The Wall Street Journal's Best on the Street survey for 2000. Mr. Wilde is a repeat member of Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team, placing number two in 2002. He and his team are also currently ranked number two in the Greenwich Survey. At Deutsche Bank, Mr. Wilde oversees global research on this sector. He held the same role at Bankers Trust (a predecessor firm), but also served as Director of U.S. Equity Research for two years and was a partner at Bankers Trust. Prior to joining the firm in 1988, Mr. Wilde was employed as a Senior Economist by Wharton Econometrics (WEFA Group) in Philadelphia. He graduated summa cum laude with departmental honors from Alma College and earned a Doctorate in Economic History from the University of Delaware. Profile
LISE SHONFIELD is a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase. She was previously associated with ABN AMRO, Inc. and SBC Warburg. Ms. Shonfield received an MA in Economics and History from Cambridge University, England. Profile
TWST: Lise, will you structure the paper and forest products industry

for purposes of this discussion?

Ms. Shonfield: In broad terms I tend to break the companies down into

wood-oriented