Roseburg announces the appointments of Tony Hamill as Chief Operations Officer and Vivek Karuppuswamy as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Labor.
Hamill and Karuppuswamy bring a combined 50 years of operations and HR expertise to Roseburg’s leadership team as the company moves forward with its ambitious capital projects program and new product lines.
As COO, Hamill will coordinate strategy and execution among Roseburg’s manufacturing, sales and marketing, SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning), and engineering teams while enhancing skillsets across the organization that are key to supporting increasingly advanced manufacturing technologies.
A registered professional engineer for more than 30 years, Hamill joins Roseburg from Louisiana Pacific where he served as Vice President-Siding Operations, leading business operations across two Siding divisions totaling 12 production facilities and 1,800 employees. Prior to 2022, Hamill held leadership roles in engineering and was accountable for executing major strategic growth projects for LP, including plant and equipment modernizations. From 1996 to 2013, Hamill was an engineering and operations leader for Stantec, a global consulting engineering firm.
Karuppuswamy joins Roseburg from Northwest Hardwoods, a hardwood lumber manufacturing and distribution company, where he led human resources since March 2020. As Vice President and CHRO, he realigned NHW’s structure to better meet demand-driven priorities, while guiding its high-performance culture. He previously held HR leadership positions for 11 years at Terex Corporation, a global lifting and material handling solutions company.
At Roseburg, Karuppuswamy will be responsible for advancing the company’s people-centered culture, overseeing recruiting and staffing, compensation, employee and labor relations, employee training, benefits and more.
Founded in 1936, Roseburg Forest Products is a privately-owned company and one of North America’s leading producers of medium density fiberboard, softwood and hardwood plywood, lumber, LVL and I-joists.
