We are pleased and honored to have Mr. Larry Montague as our featured speaker at the annual meeting banquet on Thursday evening October 2.
Larry N. Montague
President, TAPPI
TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and co-publisher of Paper360°. Mr. Montague serves as the Associations Chief Executive Officer. Consistent with board approved policies, plans, organizes, and coordinates the activities of the Association to ensure that authorized operational objectives designed to meet member needs are attained. He recommends operational and program policies designed to provide economical and productive performance, forward-looking programming, and constructive growth of the Association. He maintains effective internal staff relationships and external contact. Mr. Montague has overall responsibility for headquarters staff operations.
Larry N. Montague joined TAPPI as President on October 2, 2006. Before joining TAPPI, he spent nearly a decade with The Newark Group, an integrated global producer of 100% recycled paperboard and paperboard products with manufacturing and marketing operations in North America and Europe. Montague served as vice president, sales and marketing, responsible for $185 million in sales. It's a position Montague achieved over a successful 27-year career in sales and management. After earning his B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University) in 1977, Montague became an account supervisor for the Armour Dial Company. He joined the pulp and paper industry in 1980 as a market specialist in the Timber and Wood Products Division of Boise Cascade Corp., and later served as sales representative for the Corrugated Container Division. Montague then joined Republic Group Inc., where he first served as sales representative for Republic Gypsum (where he was named 1989 Sales Representative of the Year) and later as general manager of Republic’s Corrugated Container Division. In 1991 he was named vice president sales and marketing, as well as G.M. of Republic Recycling, a post he held through 1997. Montague also served as point person for Republic’s Acquisition Team.
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