Forest Investment Veterans

Matthew Donegan, Managing Director & Principal
Matt Donegan is a professional forester who began his career managing forest operations in the southern US. In the early 1990s, he served as Forest Analyst for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, whose national timber portfolio exceeded 6 million acres. Later, at the Hancock Timber Resource Group Mr. Donegan evaluated prospective acquisitions in the US, Canada and New Zealand, and oversaw the analysis of $1.4 billion in timber assets across 17 southern, western and eastern states. In 1997, he co-founded US Forest Capital in San Francisco, a financial advisory firm serving private investors and conservation groups acquiring forest land.

Mr. Donegan is a member of several conservation groups including the Nature Conservancy and Trout Unlimited. He holds a BS in Forestry from the University of Florida and an MBA with concentrations in Forest Industries Management and Finance from the University of Tennessee.

Scott Jones, Managing Director & Principal
A professional forester, Scott Jones worked previously for Container Corporation of America in forest operations and timber taxation. In 1988, Mr. Jones joined The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and was instrumental in developing the Hancock Timber Resource Group. During his ten-year tenure with that organization, he helped the firm raise and invest nearly $1.6 billion in nearly 40 transactions throughout North America. Mr. Jones also served on the firm’s executive and investment committees. Prior to co-founding Forest Capital Partners, Mr. Jones was President and CEO of Timberland Growth Corporation, a timberland REIT joint venture between Potlatch Corporation and Anderson-Tully Company.

Mr. Jones holds an undergraduate degree from Elizabethtown College, a Masters in Forestry from Duke University and a Masters in Management from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.