Rayonier Names Lee M. Thomas to Board of Directors
05 Junho 2006 - 11:58AM
Business Wire
Rayonier (NYSE:RYN) announced today that Lee M. Thomas, former
President and Chief Operating Officer of Georgia-Pacific, has
joined Rayonier's Board of Directors, effective June 2. Thomas, 61,
was President of Georgia-Pacific from 2002 until his retirement
December 31, 2005. He joined that company in 1993 and held
executive positions overseeing building products, consumer
products, packaged products, paper and chemicals, and environmental
and governmental affairs. Prior to Georgia-Pacific, Thomas was
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Law Companies Environmental
Group Inc. from 1989-1993 and Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency from l985-1989. Thomas serves on
the boards of Airgas Inc., the Regal Entertainment Group, the
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the National Merit Scholarship
Corporation and the World Resource Institute. He received a
bachelor's degree from the University of the South and a M.Ed. from
the University of South Carolina where he chairs the School of the
Environment Advisory Board. In 2000, Thomas received the National
Conference for Community Justice National Brotherhood Award. "We
are very pleased to have Lee Thomas on our board," said Lee Nutter,
Chairman, President and CEO. "The insights he gained from running
one of the world's largest forest products companies with $20
billion in sales, coupled with his distinguished service in the
public sector, make Lee a valuable addition to our board." About
Rayonier Rayonier has three core businesses: Timber, Real Estate
and Performance Fibers. It owns, leases or manages 2.5 million
acres of timberland in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia.
Rayonier's ownership includes approximately 200,000 acres with
residential and commercial development potential along the
fast-growing Interstate 95 corridor between Savannah, Georgia, and
Daytona Beach, Florida. TerraPointe is the company's Florida-based
real estate development subsidiary. Rayonier is also the world's
leading producer of high performance cellulose specialty products.
Approximately 40 percent of the company's sales are outside the
U.S. to customers in more than 50 countries.
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