Stora Enso appoints Juan Carlos Bueno as Executive Vice President, Head of Latin America, and member of Group Executive Team

Stora Enso has appointed Juan Carlos Bueno, 42, to head the Group's operations in Latin America and as a member of the Group Executive Team as of 1 April 2011.

Juan Carlos Bueno is a native Colombian and has worked for the global science company DuPont in various positions since 1992. For the past several years he has been the Vice President leading the DuPont Agricultural Products business in Brazil. He has some twenty years of experience from finance, sales, marketing and general business management.

“We welcome Juan Carlos Bueno to the Stora Enso team with high expectations. He will bring us a combination of solid business experience and totally new insights into Latin America. Throughout his career Juan Carlos has demonstrated strong strategic and operational capabilities in the changing economic and market conditions not only in Latin America, but also in Europe and North America,” says Stora Enso CEO Jouko Karvinen.

Nils Grafström, 64, after a long successful career first in Stora, then Stora Enso, and for the past eight years as head of Stora Enso Latin America, will retire as previously planned in June 2011.