At the annual shareholder’s meeting, Buckman appointed Otto L. Heissenberger, Jr., a 30- year veteran of the pulp and paper industry, to the board of directors. Heissenberger retired in 2008 from Voith Paper, Inc. in Appleton, WI where he served as president and CEO of the company’s North American business since 2002.
In 1977, Heissenberger started to work for Sulzer Escher Wyss, later known as Voith Sulzer Papertec, as a design engineer, and progressed to senior vice president, paper machines board and packaging by 1996. He served as a member of the board of Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen AG in Austria from 1998 to 2001 with global responsibility for the company’s board and packaging business. He has also served as a board member for the Syracuse Pulp and Paper Foundation, Syracuse, NY from 1989-2007 and the Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry from 2004-2007
Heissenberger earned a graduate engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Technical College in Graz, Austria in 1977. He completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development in 1988, and has participated in numerous management and industry seminars throughout his career.