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Forest2Market Names Coutu Head of Midwest and Northeast Region

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Forest2Market, Charlotte, N.C., USA, reports that Peter Coutu has joined the company and will head its Midwest and Northeast region office in Appleton, Wis. Coutu will be responsible for expanding Forest2Market's Forest2Mill product line, a suite of services for buyers and sellers of logs, into the Midwest and Northeast. He will also manage product evolution and development.

Coutu comes to Forest2Market with 22 years of experience in the industry. Most recently, he spent seven years at Plum Creek where he held a series of senior level marketing and sales positions. As senior marketing manager–Lake States, Coutu was responsible for sales and marketing of wood products from 1.1 million acres of land in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Before that, Coutu spent 15 years at International Paper, serving as both fiber procurement manager (where he managed a fiber procurement team of five purchasing agents and provided two manufacturing locations with $25 million of wood fiber annually) and operations manager.

 

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