Forest Products Conference - Webcast

Clint Bentz, CPA, CMA is the founder and managing member of Clint Bentz Consulting, LLC, a family business consulting firm specializing in estate and succession planning for family-owned businesses.  Prior to founding Clint Bentz Consulting in 2018, he worked as a corporate controller and planned giving officer, and then spent 30 years working in public accounting as a CPA at Boldt Carlisle + Smith, becoming a Member of the firm in 1999 and leading the firm's trust and estate group.  Clint also serves as adjunct faculty for Cannon Financial Institute, teaching courses on advising family business owners on succession, fiduciary income tax, estate, gift and generation skipping transfer taxes, and charitable giving, trusts and foundations.  His award-winning "Ties to the Land: Your Family Forest Heritage" succession planning curriculum is published in partnership with the OSU Extension Service and the OSU Austin Family Business Program and has been used in 22 states. As a family forest landowner he and his family were recognized as the 2002 National Outstanding Tree Farmers of the Year by the American Forest Foundation.  He is the past chair of the American Forest Foundation and American Tree Farm System and is an OSU Extension Service Master Woodland Manager.  He has served on several Oregon Board of Forestry working groups and is a long-standing member and former chair of the OSCPA Forest Products Committee. He helped rewrite Oregon's estate tax statute in 2011 and Oregon's property tax statutes for woodland owners in 2003.  He is the chairman of the pastoral council for the Archdiocese of Portland and the music director at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

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