James W. Hourdequin

Jim joined Lyme in 2005 and leads the Company’s investment and business strategies. Over the past 15 years, he has managed the acquisition of over 1.5 million acres of timberland throughout the US and Canada. Jim has expertise in structuring transactions that combine conservation outcomes with attractive recurring income from sustainable timber harvesting. With a background that combines forest ecology and small business, he has led Lyme’s focus on adding value to timberlands through log marketing, harvest operations, and management restructurings. Prior to Lyme, Jim co-founded Long View Forest Inc., a logging and forestry services business based in Vermont, where he remains involved as an owner and member of the management team. He serves on the Board of the National Alliance of Forest Owners and the Finance Committee for the Montshire Museum of Science. He was a founding board member of the Center for Woodlands Education, publisher of Northern Woodlands. Jim earned an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. cum laude in Biology from Dartmouth College.