R. Doug Donnell

R. DOUG DONNELL is a Managing Director and National Timberland Services Executive within the Specialty Asset Management group at U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management. In this role, Doug leads and manages the timberland services team which provides timberland asset management, including investment acquisition, disposition and active forestry management. His team consists of timberland professionals including foresters, forest economists, analysts, and forest operations specialists. Prior to joining Bank of America Doug was an analyst and administrative forester for one of the first institutional timberland investment management firms. In this role he helped develop many of the timberland investment protocols in use by the industry today. He was also a forest analyst and field forester for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, where he worked on major mergers and acquisitions as well as management of company timberland. He was named national manager for the timberland services group in February 2000. He has also guided the development of the direct investment separate account model that has provided alternative solutions for high net worth individuals and not-for-profit organizations. Doug holds a B.S. in Forestry, graduating magna cum laude from the University of Arkansas at Monticello and an M.S. in Forestry Management Economics from Virginia Tech University. Doug is a Georgia Registered Forester® (RF®) and a frequent speaker on timberland investing. He has authored and been quoted in numerous thought leadership articles and other timberland investing commentaries, as well as having appeared on several business and investing networks, such as Bloomberg and Fox Business.