James Castleberry

James serves on the RMS Senior Management Team and is responsible for forest planning and optimization, inventory/growth & yield data collection and management, GIS and land management systems, and due diligence and analytical support for timberland acquisitions and dispositions. He assumed his current role as the head of Resource Planning on July 31, 2023. Prior to joining RMS, James served as the Director of Planning and Inventory, Southern Timberlands for Weyerhaeuser, the world’s largest publicly traded forest real estate investment trust (REIT). His responsibilities in that role included leading forest planning and optimization, inventory management, land management activity reporting, and due diligence and analytical support for timberland acquisitions and dispositions. Earlier in his career, James held positions of increasing responsibility at Plum Creek and MeadWestvaco where he worked in a variety of leadership positions in operations, resource planning and sawmill manufacturing. These roles included providing new business startup support as the Regional Manager for Plum Creek’s Virginia operation, Area Manager for their East Mississippi ownership and harvest scheduling support as a biometrician for both companies’ southern ownership. James earned a BS degree in Timber Management and an MS in Biometrics from the University of Georgia.