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Richard J. Taggart - 1967

Executive vice president and CFO, Weyerhaeuser

Richard J. Taggart began his career with Weyerhaeuser, one of the top U.S. forest products companies, in 1974 as a project manager in Wood Products, and eventually became executive vice president and CFO in 2003.

He left Weyerhaeuser between 1985 and 1990 to become the head of finance for the U.S. subsidiary of CANFOR, a Canadian forest products company. Taggart is currently the Company Direcotor for Visteon.

Taggart earned his B.S. (1967) and M.S. (1970) in agricultural economics from the University of Wyoming. He went on to graduate from the University of Washington Executive Management Program and receive his C.P.A. license.

Photo courtesy of UWyo magazine

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