Bob Lyle
Mr. Lyle is Executive Vice President of The Molpus Company, The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC, and Molpus Timberlands Management, LLC.
He is a graduate of Millsaps College (BBA 1979) and Mississippi College School of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate degree in 1988. He has continued his post-graduate education having completed several executive business courses at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and at Duke University. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Lyle worked extensively as a real estate broker and appraiser of timber and agricultural properties, and he has considerable experience in negotiating the buying and selling of land and timber. Mr. Lyle is a licensed real estate broker in nine (9) states where the Molpus entities currently manage properties.
Dick Molpus asked him to serve on staff at the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office in 1989, where his duties included assisting some 90 school districts with management of more than 600,000 acres of public trust school lands. He served as Assistant Secretary of State until 1995 and then joined The Molpus Company in 1996. Mr. Lyle is a member of the Board of Directors of PriorityOne Bank, where he serves on the Executive, Compensation, and Loan Committees, and the Board of Directors of Crossgates United Methodist Children's Center. He also is a Trustee of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Museum and a member of the American and Mississippi Bar Associations.
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