Jim Hourdequin is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at The Lyme Timber Company. He has managed the acquisition of over 1.6 million acres of timberland throughout the US and Canada since joining The Lyme Timber Company 20 years ago. He has expertise in structuring transactions that combine conservation outcomes with attractive income yields from sustainable timber harvesting. He has led Lyme’s focus on strategic supply chain investments, including sawmills, logging businesses, and log marketing operations. He previously 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, the Finance Committee for the Montshire Museum of Science and was a founding board member of the Center for Woodlands Education, publisher of Northern Woodlands. He has an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BA cum laude in Biology from Dartmouth College.