- Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (NYSE:LPX) announces that the Board of Directors has appointed EVP Brad Southern to the newly created position of chief operating officer for the purpose of implementing its orderly management succession plan.
- Southern will continue to oversee the oriented strand board operations, a post he has held since 2014. General managers from the company’s siding and engineered wood products, as well as sales and marketing and manufacturing services will report to Southern, who in turn will report to CEO Curt Stevens.
- Southern joined LP in 1999 as controller for the specialty business. He held a number of increasingly complex operating roles and became general manager of the Siding business in 2004. He held that job until moving to OSB in 2014.
- “Brad was the primary architect of the siding segment strategy that we put in place during the housing downturn,” Stevens said. “That strategy has played a large role in the phenomenal growth we have seen in siding. Since heading up OSB, he’s been instrumental in improving our operating performance there, too.”
- Source: Press Release