Former Advisory Board Members
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.