Ty Gillespie

Director – Real Estate

As Director – Real Estate, Mr. Gillespie is responsible for overseeing property-level disposition processes, as well as coordinating Molpus’s team of real estate brokers who handle its higher-and-better use land sales program across Molpus-managed properties. In addition to real estate transactions, Mr. Gillespie works closely with Molpus’s Vice President, Conservation, in evaluating carbon and solar project developments, as well as reviewing any other environmentally oriented revenue streams for client properties.

Mr. Gillespie is a registered forester in Mississippi, and he is a licensed real estate broker in Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississippi. Prior to his current role in the Jackson headquarters, Mr. Gillespie worked as an operational analyst with the forestry operations team in Molpus’s Hope, Arkansas office. In that role, Mr. Gillespie oversaw harvest operations across a 150,000-acre land base, strategic long-term planning, reforestation efforts, and harvest optimization programs to help maximize returns for the investments.

Mr. Gillespie received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi and received his Masters of Forest Resources from the Warnell School of Forestry at the University of Georgia.

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