Sawmill 202 Workshop

Date: May 20, 2025

Location: Resources Building, Room 2-201 NNRB, 715 P St, Sacramento, CA 95814

Continuing the Sawmill 101 workshop offered in 2023, the Sawmill 202 workshop will feature expert panels on Sustainable Finance, Secondary Wood Treatment, and Marketing. There will also be many opportunities to interact with colleagues and ask panelists questions.

The current agenda is as follows:

1. Intros, round-robin

2. Identified hurdles and ways to overcome them

3. Opening Speaker

· Todd Sloat, Hat Creek Lumber

4. Sustainable Finance & Funding Panel

· Tyler Krutzfeldt, Montvista

· David Guendelman & Neal Gottlieb, Do Good CFO

· Tom Macejko, Investor, former CEO

· Luke Carpenter, Blue Forest

· Laurel Harkness, RVCC

4. Break

5. Breakout discussions: how are you marketing your products? What has worked/what has not?

6. Lunch

7. Secondary wood treatment panel

· Paul Mayencourt, CLT and Solar Kilning, UCB/UCCE

· Ryan Pessah, Western Wood Preservers Institute

· Osha Levgin, Full Circle Mills

8. Marketing Panel

· Jim Haas, Baileys

· Scott Ehlert, Fabric