Dick Taggart
Executive Vice President, Finance and Former CFO
Weyerhaeuser Company

Dick Taggart is executive vice president-finance and former chief financial officer of Weyerhaeuser Company. Mr. Taggart joined Weyerhaeuser in 1974 as a project manager, but left in 1985 to become head of finance for the U.S. subsidiary of CANFOR, a Canadian forest products company. After rejoining Weyerhaeuser in 1990, Taggart served as finance and planning director for engineered fiber products; vice president-investor relations; vice president and treasurer; and vice president-finance. Taggart also served on the MacMillan Bloedel, Trus Joist and Willamette acquisition teams.

Taggart holds a master of science in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wyoming and is a graduate of the University of Washington Executive Management Program. Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser, he had been an officer in the U.S. Navy, assigned to the Strategic Analysis Support Group supporting war game analysis for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and worked in operation research for Ford Motor Company.