ROY ANDERSON
Vice President of Business Development
Since joining The Beck Group in 2006, Roy has led dozens of planning and consulting projects including supply and demand studies as due diligence for sawmill acquisitions, greenfield sawmill development, or timberland acquisition. He has also completed numerous studies related to forecasting the supply, demand, and pricing forecasting for mill residuals and biomass in various regions of North America.
Roy has also completed many feasibility studies and business planning aimed at utilizing small diameter timber and other forms of biomass. From that work, Roy has developed expertise covering an array of conversion technologies, as well as knowledge of raw material supply, how to match plant size to available supply, capital costs, operating costs, product sales values, and financial analysis. Perhaps most importantly, Roy knows the key ingredients needed for successfully developing a project.
Since 2019 Roy has coauthored every edition of the International Mass Timber Report, a yearly publication produced in association with the International Mass Timber Conference. Through that work Roy has experience spanning the mass timber supply chain, including lumber supply and glulam/mass timber panel manufacturing. Roy has also assisted numerous clients with mass timber feasibility studies.
Roy has also been involved in The Beck Group’s various benchmarking/competitive assessment studies, which allow participants to understand their firms’ performance relative to peers and to identify improvement opportunity areas. Roy’s roles have included recruiting participants, mill visits to assure data accuracy, and delivering the study results to the participating firms’ management teams.
Roy has also completed log tests to measure the performance of sawmills in the U.S. West and U.S. South; sawmill audits to identify low-cost/no-cost mill performance improvement opportunities; market research related to the development of new forest products; development of computer-based sawmill performance models that clients use as log procurement planning tools; and information gathering and analysis for a variety of expert witness cases.
Roy has more than 25 years of experience in the field of forestry and forest products. Before joining The Beck Group, he was a forest products specialist with the Montana State University Extension Service where his responsibilities included developing and delivering forest products utilization and marketing outreach programs to Montana’s forest products industry and private forest landowners. Roy has a Ph.D. in Forest Products Marketing from Oregon State University, a Master’s in Wood Science from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Forest Management from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His research has been published in the Journal of Forestry and the Forest Products Journal. Roy started his forestry career in Wisconsin’s hardwood timber industry where he worked as a procurement forester, hardwood lumber salesperson, and logger.
EDUCATION
PhD Forest Products Marketing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (2003)
MS Wood Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1999)
BS Forest Management, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point (1991)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Oregon State University
Society of American Foresters
Oregon Woodland Cooperative
Forest Products Society