TimberWest Forest appointed Robert Allen as Vice President Finance and CFO

Jun 10, 2010. /Lesprom Network/. TimberWest Forest Corp. appointed Robert (Bob) Allen to the position of Vice President Finance and CFO effective June 14, 2010, the company said in a statement received by Lesprom Network. Bob joins TimberWest with a strong background in both the BC forestry industry and financial management with 20 plus years of experience building, leading, and advising corporations through complex restructurings, acquisitions/divestitures, and capital market transactions. He is the former CFO of Ainsworth, where he worked for some six years. He has also occupied senior roles at Skeena and Western Forest Products. He started his career in 1986 with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he worked for five years as Senior Audit Supervisor. As previously announced, Bev Park, Executive Vice President and CFO of TimberWest and President and COO of Couverdon Real Estate will move full-time into the real estate role. TimberWest is Western Canada’s largest private timber and land management company. The company owns approximately 320,000 hectares/791,000 acres of private land on Vancouver Island and meets all Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI®) requirements in the management of those lands.