Fredo Arias-King

Fredo Arias-King is president of T&R Chemicals, Inc. (Texas) and vice president of Resinas Sintéticas (Mexico), both manufacturers of pine chemicals and with clients in 22 countries worldwide. He is also founder of Ejido Verde, a mass-reforestation project of 12,000 hectares in partnership with Mexican indigenous nations whose purpose is tripling the output of natural pine resin in the country. He is also publisher of the 130-year-old international magazine of record of the industry, the Pine Chemicals Review. He holds an MA in Russian Studies and an MBA, both from Harvard University—where he now serves on the Advisory Board of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.