Troy Harris
Troy is the Managing Director of Timberland and Innovative Wood Products at Jamestown. He has 30 years of experience in public and institutional timberland portfolio management and a track record of timberland acquisitions and dispositions, operations management, and business development throughout the US. He has been responsible for operations and management of nearly 1 million acres valued at over $1.3 billion and the planting of over 30 million seedlings.
Troy is a passionate advocate of the mass timber industry and has served a key role in connecting the commercial real estate industry to the mass timber industry by working to build the first “Georgia Grown” mass timber building at Ponce City Market in Atlanta, connecting sustainably managed working forests to the built environment. In 2021, he was invited by Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock to provide testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee highlighting private working forests as a natural carbon solution and advocating for mass timber. In 2023, he was invited again to testify to the Senate Agriculture Committee on the “Seedlings to Solutions” 619 Ponce project being built in Georgia which sourced all the timber locally from Georgia, including timber grown on the Jamestown Timberland property.
Troy is a Certified Forester. He has a strong industry network and serves on the boards of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA) and the Georgia Forestry Association (GFA). Troy also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) and is a Trustee for the Georgia Forestry Foundation.
He received a BS in Forest Management from Auburn University and earned an MBA from the University of Georgia.