Kristin Reynolds, BCI Associate Editor, Worked in educational textbook publishing before joining BCI in April 1997. In August, Kristin flew to sunny California to interview Bill, Mike and Mark Mazzocco, the managers of family-owned Packaging Innovators Corp., the subject of this month's cover story on page 37. She also wrote a report on the industry's first satellite-fed conference, hosted by Michigan State University, which you can find on page 20.

C.A. "Chip" Dillon III, is managing director at Salomon Smith Barney Inc. and the senior North American paper and forest products industry analyst in the Equity Research Department. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a past president of the Paper and Forest Products Analysts Group of New York. Among U.S. paper and forest products analysts, Dillon is currently ranked first in all three major polls and surveys, including the 1997 Greenwich Associates survey, the 1997 Institutional Investor poll and the 1997 Wall Street Journal survey of "stockpickers". He currently lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and five children.