Two Sides Insight – Interview With Mike Clark, Industry Expert

Biography and Introduction

Ian Bates, Marketing and Partnership Director for Two Sides interviewed industry expert Mike Clark.

“I’d like to introduce you to our guest, Mike Clark.

Mike employed me in 1986 when we both worked for Finnboard UK out of the London office and gave me considerable encouragement and support during my early career for which I am very grateful.

Mike was a Unilever Management Trainee and spent 18 years in a wide range of positions in a variety of industries, living and working in 5 different countries. His final job for Unilever was that of Sales and Marketing Director of the Austin Packaging Group on Merseyside. Then, after a period with ABF running the Walmsley carton business, he joined Finnboard UK Ltd as Sales Director, Cartonboards going on to become the UK MD.

He spent 22 years in the Finnish board industry, working for the various businesses that are now Metsa Board, covering a range of senior management positions across their international operations, based both in the UK and Helsinki. His final appointment was as Senior Adviser, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, with a global mandate. He was appointed to the Board of PEFC International (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification), the largest certifier of sustainable forestry management and was Chairman until his retirement in 2009.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland. In 2010, he was awarded the UK Paper Industry Gold Medal.”