Herbert Yancey
Principal | Timberland Asset Advisory | North America – Leads TAA’s forest operations in the US. This covers day-to-day property management and tactical and strategic asset management and portfolio construction, with tasks ranging from liaising with local partners and contractors, creating operational plans, conducting market analyses, implementing ESG, improving forest management, among many other property related tasks on top of deal sourcing. With IWC for 10 years providing operational and financial oversight for institutional timberland portfolios. This was both ground based as well as desktop analysis and reporting in addition to overseeing due diligence on timberland acquisitions. Herb covered 100+ assets across the major timber producing regions of the US.
Prior to IWC, Herbert worked for a timberland manager in the Pacific Northwest as a forester on over USD 200 million of assets, which included day to day management as well as property and financial analyses on timberland acquisitions. US citizen based in North Carolina working out of TAA regional office in Asheville, NC. Holds Masters in Forestry and Masters in Environmental Management with focus on Economics and policy.