Carl Dobler is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Interfor, where he oversees approximately 1.5 billion board feet of sales, including all Specialty, WRC, Export & EWP sales in the company and all Western commodity sales.

Always in the wood products industry, Carl has held leadership roles at Interfor, Taiga, International Paper and West Fraser (Weldwood). He holds a BBA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and a certificate in Global Strategic Management from Harvard Business School.

Carl serves on several lumber association boards and committees, is a Past President of BCWLA and currently serves as President of Tri-City Cycling, one of Metro Vancouver’s largest road and gravel cycling clubs.

Dr. Kurt Niquidet is President of the BC Lumber Trade Council and Vice President & Chief Economist at the BC Council of Forest Industries.

With more than two decades of experience in forest sector economics, trade policy and resource governance, he has held senior roles at the Bank of Canada and Natural Resources Canada.

Dr. Niquidet holds a PhD in Resource Economics from the University of Groningen and is recognized for his leadership in advancing a competitive and sustainable forest sector in British Columbia.

Andy Rielly has been involved in the BC value added wood products industry for more than 42 years. He began his career at Suder Industries Moulding Division in 1984, where he learned the secondary manufacturing process in one of the original value added plants.

In 1989, he moved to Macmillan Bloedel to manage the West Coast Reman division, primarily producing cedar finished products. In 1995, Rielly Lumber began operations, manufacturing cedar products for U.S. and international distributors.

Over the past three decades, the industry has endured three softwood lumber disputes with the United States, giving Andy firsthand knowledge of U.S. trade law. Since 2018, he has served as Board Chair of the Independent Wood Processors of BC, Co-chair of the BC Value Added Coalition and Co-chair of the Pan Canadian Value Added Alliance.