Mark Woloszyn

About Mark Woloszyn

Experienced real assets investor and analytics leader with 16 years of success driving business improvement and investment portfolio performance. Currently oversee investment strategy and analytics for $5.2 billion in private institutional timberland investments, serving as both fiduciary and operator. Leveraging data-driven insights, advanced modeling, cross-functional collaboration, and systems optimization, I consistently enhance asset returns and outperform industry benchmarks.Skilled at engaging with C-Suite executives and institutional investors, I bring a strategic and analytical perspective to decision-making. My academic foundation includes a BBA in Finance and an MS in Accounting, supplemented by advanced studies at Yale in forestry, industrial ecology, mass timber construction, and land use planning and development. Currently expanding my expertise in Python, relational database design, geospatial analytics, and agent-based modeling.Based in Atlanta, GA.

Experience

1. Director, Investment Strategy and Analytics

   Resource Management Service Llc

   Jul 2020 — Present

   Responsible for projects to improve company and client portfolio performance at a timberland investment manager with $5.2B in assets under management across the US South and Brazil. This includes systems improvement projects, refinement of investment strategies, and cultivation of new business.Select Accomplishments:+ Advocated relentlessly for an enterprise-wide systems overhaul with better data governance. Coordinated with a cross-functional internal team and third-party experts to identify best practices, develop a thorough conceptual systems design, and estimate a multi-million-dollar implementation budget and associated timelines. Results: Confidently presented a business case to executive leadership and secured unanimous project approval.+ Catalyzed new avenues for company growth. Recognizing the importance of forests in providing nature-based solutions to sequester carbon, developed a company-wide carbon markets strategy and applied it to select business development projects. Results: Fostered increased engagement by new and existing clients in response to novel investment ideas, including a Brazilian native reforestation project ($200M+/ acres) and a biodiversity-enhancing impact investment project in Oklahoma acres).+ Stepped in as a team player to lead acquisition projects during a transitional period. Evaluated $1.1B (696,600 acres) in timberland transactions with the help of direct reports and cross-functional collaborators. Results: Raised company’s standard for due diligence of transactions. Improved modeling workflow, model design, and thoroughness of deal materials.+ Negotiated a new incentive fee structure with a separate account investment client. Combined an ability to listen with a fiduciary mindset and advanced financial modeling expertise. Developed a novel, transparent fee design that better aligned interests. Results: Constructive approach helped win more client business managing 2 additional separate accounts.

Education

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Master's in Professional Accounting

  2005 — 2006

• Sophia University

  Study Abroad, Japanese History, Japanese, and Spanish

  2004 — 2004

• UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

  BS in Business Administration with distinction, Finance, German, Japanese, Spanish

  2001 — 2005

• Yale University

  Master's degree, Forestry & Environmental Studies

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Environmental Economics
• Financial Regulation
• Nature Conservation
• Private Equity
• Valuation
• Financial Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Mergers
• Strategy
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Planning
• Equities
• Corporate Finance
• Regulatory Capital
• Investment Banking
• Finance
• Auditing
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Financial Reporting
• Management Consulting
• Investments