USA – Roseburg Forest Products, the largest family-held wood products company in the United States, announced that Grady Mulbery will retire from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective Sept. 30, 2023.

As part of this planned leadership succession, Roseburg’s board of directors unanimously elected Chief Operating Officer Stuart Gray to succeed Mulbery as president and CEO, effective Oct. 1, 2023.

Mulbery will remain on Roseburg’s board of directors through the end of 2023 and serve as an executive advisor through 2024.

During his time as CEO, Mulbery presided over a period of exceptional growth for Roseburg, including expansion of the company’s timberland holdings into the southeastern United States and addition of manufacturing operations on the East Coast and into Canada. Mulbery led the company’s entry into medium density fiberboard (MDF) manufacturing, and oversaw the construction of new engineered wood product and lumber manufacturing facilities in North and South Carolina.

Stuart Gray joined Roseburg in 2017 as senior vice president and general counsel, overseeing the company’s strategic business development, legal, compliance, and environmental teams. In January 2022, Gray was appointed chief operating officer and assumed responsibility for the company’s manufacturing business. Gray earned his law degree from Emory University School of Law and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management.