Advisory Board
To create our advisory board, ImageTree rounded up leaders in the forest industry, put them in a board room, looked them in the eye and assigned them but one task: to expand our leadership position as the provider of accurate, efficient and useful forest inventory data and management information. We feel they’re doing one heck of a job.
Dr. Lee Allen
C.A. Schenck Distinguished Professor of Forestry at North Carolina State University
and Co-director of the Forest Nutrition Cooperative
Lee Allen is the C.A. Schenck distinguished professor of forestry at North Carolina State University and co-director of the Forest Nutrition Cooperative, a teaching, research and service partnership of North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, the Universidad de Concepción (Chile) and 38 commercial and public forestry interests across the southern United States and Latin America with 24 million acres of forest plantations under management. His research – on sustainable production and silviculture (the development and care of forests), ecophysiology (the study of the relationships between the physiology of organisms and environmental factors), and genetic differences in resource acquisition and use – has resulted in more than 240 research publications and millions of dollars in research funding. Lee is a recipient of the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by North Carolina State University and its trustees, and is recognized for his contribution to the Southern forestry industry’s increased competitiveness.
Ricardo Bayon
Co-founder and Partner of Merchant Bank EKO Asset Management Partners
A co-founder and partner of merchant bank EKO Asset Management Partners, which invests in new and emerging markets for such environmental commodities as carbon, water and biodiversity, Ricardo Bayon previously helped found and served as managing director of the Ecosystem Marketplace. He has co-authored a number of publications on environmental markets, including “The State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2007: Picking up Steam,” “Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work,” and “Conservation and Biodiversity Banking: A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading System.” His articles on the environment and socially responsible investing have been published in such prestigious newspapers and magazines as The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune and The Atlantic Monthly, and he has contributed book chapters on a variety of environmental market topics. He also has worked with such entities as the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and The Nature Conservancy.
Richard (Dick) P. Ludington
Senior Associate and Southeast Regional Director, The Conservation
Fund
and Executive Director of The Florida Nature Conservancy
The Conservation Fund’s senior associate and southeast regional director of land acquisition, and executive director of The Florida Nature Conservancy, Dick Ludington has more than 15 years of experience in natural resource management and conservation land acquisition for public and private agencies. He has a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a licensed real-estate broker and is a certified review appraiser. Dick was the first director of Florida’s State Lands division, is well acquainted with governmental procedures and requirements at regional, state and local levels, and has served as the principal on several key U.S. conservation projects. In keeping with the Conservation Fund’s emphasis on environmentally responsible economic development, he has developed workshops and programs designed to assist major corporations in the environmental assessment of real estate, particularly timberland holdings, as well as in the area of design and implementation of resource management plans that merge conservation with sound financial returns.
Andrew (Andy) Malmquist
Forest Management Analyst, Global Forest Partners
A forest management analyst at Global Forest Partners LP (GFP), one of the oldest and largest timber investment management organizations with a global footprint, Andy Malmquist’s responsibilities include development of optimal investment strategies. Stateside, in addition to its West Lebanon, N.H., headquarters, the firm has a U.S. office in Charlotte, N.C. Internationally, its equity holders and investment managers are in Santiago, Chile; Curitiba, Brazil; and Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to joining GFP, Andy worked for Prudential Timber Investments, Inc. (PruTimber), the erstwhile timberland investment management unit of Prudential Financial, Inc., for which he developed models for portfolio and acquisition analyses, and operational management strategies. His career spans some three decades, beginning at Westvaco, where he held a variety of positions from product manager of Mead Westvaco subsidiary Forest Technology Group to Westvaco region manager, Central States. Andy holds a B.S. degree in forest management and ecology, and an M.S. degree in forest biometrics, from Southern Illinois University.
Jay Watrous
Operations Leader, Temple-Inland
With more than 30 years of experience with forest markets, including leadership roles in wood procurement, harvest operations, forest inventory and market- enabling technologies, Jay Watrous today is the general operations leader, Wood Supply, for Austin, Texas-based Temple-Inland, Inc. As such, he is responsible for all wood procurement and fiber-related sales for the publicly traded manufacturing company’s sawmill and paper-mill operations in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. Prior to Temple-Inland, Jay served as vice president of an e-commerce company founded and funded by the CEOs of International Paper, Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific. Recognized as an expert on timber markets and the timber supply chain, he has been a featured speaker at such international forums as the Forest Resources Association National Convention, PriceWaterhouseCoopers Annual Forestry Summit and the FOR@C forest research conference. He has independently consulted, working with forest business experts at Accenture, McKinsey & Company and the Boston Consulting Group. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Frank Norris Foundation (TimberMart South), the Forest Resources Association and the Wood Supply Research Institute.
Dr. Randolph Wynne
Associate Professor of Forest Biometry and Geomatics at Virginia Tech
Randy Wynne is associate professor of forest biometry and geomatics at Virginia Tech, associate director of the Conservation Management Institute, co-director of the Center for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing, and the remote sensing team leader for the Forest Nutrition Cooperative. Chosen as a NASA New Investigator in 2001, Randy is now investigating for the agency how to improve the integration of remote sensing into decision support systems used for forest carbon monitoring. He also serves as a member of the NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Management Operations Working Group within the agency’s Earth Science Research Program. He won a U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Achievement Award in 2002 and is the author/co-author of more than 60 scientific papers, including three book chapters and 32 papers in technically reviewed journals abstracted by the Institute for Scientific Information. He was guest editor for the 2003 Forest Science issue devoted to remote-sensing applications and the guest co-editor for a 2006 Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing issue devoted to forestry lidar applications.