Troy Harris
Managing Director, Timberland and Innovative Wood Products
Troy Harris is the Managing Director of Timberland and Innovative Wood Products at Jamestown. Mr. Harris has 30 years of experience in public and institutional timberland portfolio management and a track record of timberland acquisitions and dispositions, operations management, and business development throughout the U.S. His experience includes acquisitions of over 1 million acres of timberland valued at $1.4 billion across all timberland producing regions in the U.S., as well as Brazil. Mr. Harris has led dispositions of 538,000 acres valued at approximately $880 million, including taking Wells Timberland REIT public as CatchMark Timber Trust. He has been responsible for operations and management of nearly 1 million acres valued at over $1.3 billion and the planting of over 30 million seedlings. Mr. Harris is a passionate advocate of the mass timber industry and has served a key role in connecting the commercial real estate industry to the mass timber industry by working to build the first “Georgia Grown” mass timber building at Ponce City Market in Atlanta, connecting sustainably managed working forests to the built environment. In 2021 he was invited by Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock to provide testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee highlighting private working forests as a natural carbon solution and advocating for mass timber. In 2023 he was invited again to testify to the Senate Agriculture Committee on the “Seedlings to Solutions” 619 Ponce project being built in Georgia which sourced all the timber locally from Georgia, including timber grown on the Jamestown Timberland property. Mr. Harris is a Certified Forester. He has a strong industry network and serves on the boards of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA) and the Georgia Forestry Association (GFA). Mr. Harris serves on the Executive Committee of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) and is a Trustee for the Georgia Forestry Foundation. Mr. Harris received a Bachelor of Science in Forest Management from Auburn University, where he was a member of the National Forestry Honors Society. He earned a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate Investing from the University of Georgia, where he was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Business Management Honors Society.
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