Board of Directors

Lawrence Sauder

Chair

Mr. Sauder has been a director of Interfor since 1984 and Chair of the Board since 2008.  From 2008 to 2021 Mr. Sauder was a director and Chair of ADENTRA Inc. (formerly Hardwoods Distribution Inc.) (TSX: ADEN), a distributor of wood products.  Mr. Sauder was a director from 2010 to 2023, and the Chair from 2010 to 2018, of Metrie Canada Ltd., (formerly Sauder Industries Limited), a manufacturer and distributor of building products.  From 2010 to 2014, Mr. Sauder was Chief Executive Officer of Metrie Canada Ltd. and from 1988 to 2014, he was President of the Sauder Group of Companies. 

Ian Fillinger

President & CEO

Mr. Fillinger has been the President & Chief Executive Officer of Interfor since January 2020. Since joining Interfor in 2005 as General Manager, Interior Operations, he has accepted progressively senior roles with the Company. Mr. Fillinger was appointed SVP & Head of Operations in December 2015 with responsibility for all of the Company’s manufacturing, woodlands, timber procurement and capital projects activities. He was appointed SVP & Chief Operating Officer in February 2018. He has more than 30 years of experience in the lumber industry, including at Pacific Forest Products, Riverside Forest Products and Canadian Forest Products. 

Mr. Fillinger holds a Master of Business Administration from Athabasca University and a Diploma in Wood Products Engineering from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Geoffrey Evans

Director

Member of the Environment & Safety Committee and Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee.

Geoffrey Evans is an independent director of the Company.  Mr. Evans is the founder and president of Evans Enterprises, an independent advisory firm.  Previously Mr. Evans enjoyed a nearly 30-year career at Boeing where he held progressive leadership roles, including President, CEO & Board Member of Tapestry Solutions, a Boeing subsidiary company that pioneered software-as-a-service (SAAS) for supply chain and maintenance management in the aerospace and automotive industries. Mr. Evans started his aerospace career at Lockheed Martin and later joined Eaton Corporation, before joining Boeing in 1990.  Mr. Evans is currently a board member of Stars2Docs a not-for-profit organization.  He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.

Nicolle Butcher

Director

Member of the Environment & Safety Committee and Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee.

Ms. Butcher is the Chief Operations Officer of Ontario Power Generation (OPG), where she has held a wide range of roles with increasing responsibility over the past 22 years including Senior Vice President, Renewable Generation and Power Markets (2020 – 2022), and Senior Vice President, Corporate Business Development and Strategy (2019-2020). She is the Chair of the Board of both Eagle Creek Renewable Energy (OPG’s US hydro subsidiary) and Atura Power (OPG’s fleet of combined cycle gas plants) and serves as a member of the MaRS-Advanced Energy Centre Advisory Board of Directors.  In 2021, Ms. Butcher was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and named Women of the Year by WIRE (Women in Renewable Energy) and APPRO (Association of Power Producers of Ontario). 

She holds a BBA (Finance) from Brock University and an MBA (Finance) from McGill University, is a Chartered Business Valuator, and has earned an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Christopher Griffin

Director

Chair of the Audit Committee and Member of the Management Resources & Compensation Committee.

Mr. Griffin is President & Chief Executive Officer of USG Corporation and was appointed to that role in April, 2019.  He has also been a Director of the National Association of Manufacturers since March, 2021.  Mr. Griffin’s previous roles with USG include Chief Operating Officer from 2013 to 2015; Executive Vice President, Operations; President, International; President of USG’s Canadian subsidiary CGC and several other roles in sales, product management, manufacturing and operations. He also served as Regional Chief Executive Officer (North America), and then Chief Executive Officer, of Knauf Insulation North America from 2016 to 2019.  Mr. Griffin is a member of the Board of Directors of Chicagoland Habitat for Humanity and Make-A-Wish Illinois.

He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Construction Technology for Women association, a past member of the Board of Governors for George Brown Community College and has served volunteer roles with Junior Achievement.  Mr. Griffin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and has completed the advanced management program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Rhonda Hunter

Director

Member of the Audit Committee and Management Resources & Compensation Committee.

Ms. Hunter is currently a director of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. dba Radius Recycling (NASDAQ: RDUS).  From 2013 to 2018, she was the Senior Vice President, Timberlands of Weyerhaeuser Company, after having held multiple operations, sales, logistics and finance roles at Weyerhaeuser since 1987.  Ms. Hunter has been active in a number of industry organizations, including the American Forest Foundation (2014-2018), National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (2014-2018), Arkansas Forestry Association (2002-2013), and Nature Conservancy of Arkansas (2007-2014). 

She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Henderson State University and completed executive education at Harvard Business School and Duke University.

J. Eddie McMillan

Director

Member of the Environment & Safety Committee and Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee.

Mr. McMillan is an independent business consultant. From 1998 until his retirement in 2002, he was Executive Vice President – Wood Products Group of Willamette Industries Inc., a forest products company.  Prior to 1998, Mr. McMillan held various management positions with Willamette Industries Inc.  Over the years, he has served as a director of Forest Express, Inc. and has been associated with numerous industry association boards, including the American Plywood Association, National Particleboard Association, Particleboard and MDF Institute, Southern Forest Products Association, Western Wood Products Association, National Association of Lumber Wholesalers and the American Forest and Paper Association. 

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Accounting/Business Administration) from Louisiana Tech University

Thomas V. Milroy

Director

Chair of the Management Resources & Compensation Committee and Member of the Audit Committee.

Mr. Milroy is a director of APi Group Corporation (NYSE: APG) and serves as a member of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and as Chair of the Compensation Committee. He is also a director of Generation Capital Limited, a private investment company.  He also serves on the boards of a number of not-for-profit organizations, including the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Evergreen, and Century Initiative.  Prior to that, Mr. Milroy served on the board of Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX/NYSE: QSR, TSX: QSP) and one of its predecessor companies, from 2013 to 2018.  He worked for BMO Financial Group from 1993 to 2015, and served as Chief Executive Officer of BMO Capital Markets from 2008 to 2014, where he was responsible for all of BMO’s business involving corporate, institutional and government clients globally. 

Mr. Milroy holds a Bachelor of Law and Master of Law from Cambridge University, an LLB from Dalhousie University, and a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University.  He has completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.  Mr. Milroy is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Gillian L. Platt

Director

Chair of the Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee and Member of the Management Resources & Compensation Committee.

Ms. Platt is a non-executive director and former Senior Independent Director of CRH plc (LSE: CRH, ISE: CRG, NYSE: CRH), an Irish based building materials group and has served on that board since January 2017.  From 2014 to 2016, she was the Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Finning International Inc. (TSX: FTT) with global responsibility for human resources, talent development and corporate communications.  Prior to joining Finning, Ms. Platt was Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Corporate Affairs and Executive Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development at Aviva, a multinational insurance company.  She served as Vice President, Human Resources Planning and Development for Hudson’s Bay Company and Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Human Resources for Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. 

Ms. Platt holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters of Education from the University of Toronto.

Christina Sistrunk

Director

Member of the Environment & Safety Committee and Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee.

Ms. Sistrunk is a senior advisor with BCG and has served in this role since 2022. She served as President and CEO of Aera Energy, LLC (an independent upstream oil and gas company) between 2015 and 2020.  Prior to this, Ms. Sistrunk held multiple roles with increasing responsibility over her 17-year career at Shell, including Vice President roles (leadership of Arctic strategy development from 2014 to 2015, and of Gulf of Mexico production from 2009 to 2014).  Ms. Sistrunk served on the Board of Governors of Kern Medical Center (2018-2020), the Board of Directors of California Chamber of Commerce (2015 – 2019), the Board of Directors of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy (2016-2020), the Board of Directors for Western State Petroleum Association and Past Chair for WSPA (2015-2020), the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for California Business Roundtable (2018-2020), and the Advisory Board Ally Energy 2021- 2024.

Ms. Sistrunk currently serves on the External Advisory Council for The Ohio State University College of Engineering, and on the Advisory Board for Renewell Energy.  She holds a BS Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Curtis M. Stevens

Director

Member of the Audit Committee and the Management Resources & Compensation Committee.

Mr. Stevens is a director of Quanex Building Products Corporation (NYSE: NX) and has served on that board since 2010.  He served as the CEO and a director of Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (NYSE: LPX), a building materials manufacturer, from 2012 until his retirement in June 2017.  Mr. Stevens holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation and served as Louisiana-Pacific’s Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (2011 to 2012), Chief Financial Officer (1997 to 2011) and Executive Vice President, Administration (2002 to 2011).  Mr. Stevens served as Chair of the Forest Products Association of Canada (2015 to 2017) and as a board member of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce (2014 to 2017). 

Mr. Stevens holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles.  Mr. Stevens is considered a financial expert on the Company’s Audit Committee.

Thomas Temple

Director

Chair of the Environment & Safety Committee and Member of the Audit Committee.

Mr. Temple held the position of Vice-President at PotlatchDeltic from 2008 until his retirement in 2021, with responsibilities that included the Wood Products Division and the Southern Timberlands. His prior roles include Vice President, International Sales and Panel Marketing at Canfor (2004 – 2007); Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Slocan Forest Products (2003); Executive Vice President at Rossi American Hardwoods (1998 – 2002); and various management positions in Forestry, Sales, and Manufacturing at Plum Creek Timber Company (1981 – 1998). Prior to his retirement, Mr. Temple also served as Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Trustee for the APA and served on the Board of Directors of Western Wood Products Association, Southern Pine Inspection Bureau and the Canadian Wood Council. 

He holds a Master of Science (Forestry) from the State University of New York at Syracuse and a Bachelor of Science (Forestry) from Oregon State University.