Carl directs acquisitions and originates investment opportunities in the Pacific West to meet clients’ needs. Previously, Carl was president and founding member of Farmland Management Services (FMS) which was acquired by the firm in 2014. Prior to joining FMS in 1987, Carl farmed permanent and row cropland for Newhall Land & Farming Co. Carl has vast operational knowledge and expertise of permanent and row crops and water in the Pacific West, and a wealth of business and personal contacts. He has sourced and closed many acquisitions for clients during his tenure at the firm. Carl is an Accredited Farm Manager.

• Education: B.S., Agricultural Management, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.B.A., Golden Gate University  
• Joined the company: 1987 
• Began career: 1982

Corbitt is responsible for coordinating transactions within the firm’s global agricultural platform through the consistent application of acquisition and disposition protocols, including deal management, investment approvals, due diligence assessments, transaction execution, and management integration. In addition, Corbitt is involved in the assessment of acquisition opportunities, contract negotiation, transaction strategy development, and global platform expansion. Previously, Corbitt was a senior portfolio analyst for the firm’s client account management group and a senior planning analyst for the Southern regional division of the firm’s timberland management operations. Prior to joining the firm in 2004, he worked for Forest Technology Group as part of the forest planning and analysis consulting team.  

• Education: B.S., Forest Management, North Carolina State University; M.B.A., University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Joined the company: 2004
• Began career: 2001

Kevin Wright leads North American Agriculture Operations, driving strategy and execution across a portfolio of agricultural assets in the United States and Canada. He is responsible for operational performance, risk management, and long-term value creation, ensuring alignment with investor objectives. Kevin also serves on the Agriculture Investment Committee. With more than three decades of experience in agribusiness, Kevin previously served as President of E. Ritter Agribusiness, Inc., a fifth-generation, vertically integrated agricultural enterprise. In that role, he guided the stewardship and growth of the family’s land and business portfolio, driving innovation and creating long-term value.

• Education: B.S., Agriculture Business, Arkansas State University 
• Joined the company: 2020 
• Began career: 1992 

Travis oversees our leased row crop platform, North American berries, and Canadian operations. Prior to this role, Travis has served as a farm manager, region manager, and vice president of Midwest operations within the company. Before joining the firm, Travis worked in property management, and was a chemist for ESC Labs in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. 

• Education: B.S. Plant & Soil Science, Southern Illinois University
• Joined the company: 2015
• Began career: 2009

Emmanuel is responsible for ensuring goals and objectives for each farmland asset in North America are established and met. Prior to this role, Emmanuel was a senior asset manager for the company, where he was responsible for creating property-by-property business plans. Previously he was an investment analyst, where he assisted in the underwriting of acquisitions on behalf of the firm’s agriculture clients. Emmanuel grew up in the farming community of Modesto in California’s Central Valley. Emmanuel holds the AFM designation with the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

Emmanuel holds the AFM designation with the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

• Education: B.A. Communications, UC Davis; Master of Arts, Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. 
  
• Joined the company: 2009, 2017
  
• Started career: 2008

Paul provides operations leadership for the U.S. row crop team of regional farm management professionals. The responsibilities of this role are centered around execution of the company’s strategic plans for client owned properties including safety, compliance, budgeting, sustainability, and profitability. Prior to joining Manulife, Paul was an assistant vice president, agriculture lending and a farm manager with Platte Valley Bank, where he was responsible for a diversified agriculture loan portfolio and established a farm management entity for the institution. He spent a dozen years in applied agricultural economics research and cooperative extension with the University of Nebraska before his bank role.

• Education: B.S., Farm and Ranch Management, University of Wyoming; M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Wyoming
• Joined the company: 2018
• Began career: 1998

Keith is responsible for the firm’s Canadian farmland portfolio. Prior to joining the team, Keith served as general manager and CFO for one of Canada’s largest irrigation and specialty crop farms in Southern Alberta. Keith has experience in farm management and operations, stakeholder and government relations, finance and management consulting in the agriculture, forestry, and energy industries. His board experience includes serving as past chair of the Board of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance, the national association for the emerging hemp industry. Keith’s family has farmed continuously near Calgary since 1903, where he farms on a part-time basis with his wife.

• Education: B.Sc. Agriculture, University of Alberta; M.B.A. International Business, University of British Columbia. 
• Joined the company: 2022
• Began career: 1984

Lucas is responsible for the management, supervision, and coordination of over 20,000 acres of permanent cropland. He manages the property budget, purchases property equipment and coordinates harvest contracts and deliveries to the huller. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Lucas received his B.S. in Agricultural Systems Management from California Polytechnic State University. He is an Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) with the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

• Education:  B.S. in Agricultural Systems Management from California Polytechnic State University
• Joined the company: 2013
• Began career: 2012

Joseph provides operation leadership for the Southern U.S. row crop team. The responsibilities of this role include the execution of the company's strategic plans for client owned properties. Some of these responsibilities include sourcing acquisitions, budgeting, compliance, sustainability and profitability. Prior to joining Manulife, Joseph was an Assistant Vice President of Lending with First South Farm Credit where he was responsible for a $21 million agriculture loan portfolio in Louisiana. Prior to joining First South Farm Credit, Joseph spent 12 years working in the agriculture retail business as an Assistant Manager and sales person.

• Education:  B.S., Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
• Joined the company: 2018
• Began career: 1999

Rick bridges aspects of portfolio management and property management operational functions that drive client returns and enhance internal connectivity. Rick oversees the Resource Planning and Analysis and Farmland Plus teams and serves on the Agriculture Investment Committee. Rick first joined Manulife in 2011, serving in a variety of roles in his 12-year tenure, including Senior Portfolio Manager, Head of Farmland Plus, Managing Director and Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Prior to rejoining the firm in 2024, Rick served as a Managing Director at Ceres Partners. Rick is a CFA® charterholder and is a member of the CFA Society Boston.

• Education: B.A., English and Philosophy, Providence College; M.B.A., University of Connecticut
• Joined the company: 2011
• Began career: 2005

Almin is responsible for oversight of Farmland Plus portfolio companies.  In this role, Almin is primarily focused on integration of new investments, development of the tactical plans to prepare the portfolio companies for growth, and execution of the value creation plan for each portfolio company.  Almin also supports the deal origination and execution efforts, as well as leads the communication and collaboration efforts with internal stakeholders.  Previously, he worked at a large healthcare payor Aetna, where he led several large enterprise-wide efforts focusing on risk management, operational excellence, and cost optimization.  Prior to joining Aetna, Almin worked for Bunge, a global agribusiness and food ingredient company where he held several roles in various capacities ranging from global segment finance lead to roles focusing on business development, strategy and mergers and acquisitions.  Prior to joining Bunge, Almin worked as an investment banker focusing on the natural resource and energy space.  

• Education: B.A., Russian Language, Dartmouth College; M.B.A., NYU Stern School of Business
• Joined the company: 2022
• Began career: 2000

Rachel is responsible for the execution of transactions for Manulife Investment Management’s Farmland Plus team. In this role, she sources, underwrites, negotiates, and closes investments in operating companies supporting clients’ agriculture portfolios. Prior to joining the firm in 2022, she held Corporate Development and New Product Introduction roles within the Product & Operations division of Impossible Foods. Rachel was previously Head of Commercial Operations at Modern Meadow and worked as a consultant at Deloitte.

• Education: B.A., International Relations, Tufts University; M.B.A., Quantitative Methods, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
• Joined the company: 2022
• Began career: 2013

Carl joined the company in late 2019 through the Brisbane office where he led the valuation work for all Australian and New Zealand acquisitions. In late 2022, Carl transferred to the Boston location where he leads all Agricultural valuation work for North America, South America, and Oceana (Aus/NZ). This includes Manulife Investment Management Timberland and Agriculture’s traditional farmland assets and more recently their Farmland Plus assets. Prior to joining the firm, Carl spent 10 years in the seafood industry where he provided economic advice to governments and industry participants regarding all aspects of the seafood supply chain (including valuation on several downstream processing investments).

• Education: B.Admin Marine Resources, University of Tasmania; Masters Ecological Resource Economics, University of Queensland
• Joined the company: 2019
• Began career: 2009

David leads the timberland and agriculture economic research team where he is responsible for the market analysis supporting investment and operational planning and decision making for Manulife Investment Management’s timberland and agriculture group. David is involved in transactional due diligence and exploring new investment strategies and concepts across timberland and agriculture sectors. His team maintains informational databases and produces analytical studies and thought leadership publications addressing trends in timber and agricultural commodity markets as well as the role of timberland and farmland in institutional investment. Prior to joining the firm, David was vice president of economic analysis covering the global fiber market at Fastmarkets RISI, an information provider to the global forest products industry, where he was responsible for leading a team of economists covering pulp, paper and wood products markets and the lead author of multiple recurring and ad-hoc forecasts and analytical reports on the industry. 

• Education: B.A., Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A., International Economics and Finance, International Business School, Brandeis University
• Joined the company: 2022
• Began career: 2003

Weiyi is responsible for driving agricultural economic initiatives at Manulife Investment Management. In this role, he’s directly involved in farmland transactional due diligence and initiating new investment strategies and concepts. In addition, he leads the global agricultural economic, financial, and statistical analytical efforts, including commodity price forecasting, portfolio analysis, and authoring thought leadership publications. Previously, Weiyi was the senior natural resource economist, where he supported economic research and analysis for the group’s timberland and farmland business sectors.

• Education: B.S., Agricultural and Applied Economics, M.F.R., Forest Business, Ph.D., Forest Finance and Economics, University of Georgia
• Joined the company: 2018
• Began career: 2018

Brian is responsible for overseeing the global sustainability platform for Manulife Investment Management’s private and public markets businesses. This spans timberland, agriculture, real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and private credit as well as public markets’ equity, fixed income, and multi-asset strategies. Brian is accountable for sustainability strategy, developing internal sustainable investing policies and compliance mechanisms across Manulife Investment Management. He also supports regulatory affairs and reporting on sustainability matters.

Previously, Brian was chief sustainability officer for Manulife Investment Management’s private markets business and before that he was the chief sustainability officer at Hancock Natural Resource Group, Manulife’s timberland and agriculture business. Prior to joining the firm, he was director of policy at Forest Capital Partners, where he was responsible for a variety of programs, including forest certification, forest policy, government affairs, public relations, conservation transactions, and ecology support. 

Brian represents Manulife Investment Management on several external groups and committees and he holds the Certified Wildlife Biologist designation from The Wildlife Society, a B.S., Wildlife Ecology from Michigan State University, and a M.S., Wildlife Management from South Dakota State University.

• Education: B.S., Wildlife Ecology, Michigan State University; M.S., Wildlife Management, South Dakota State University
• Joined the company: 2012       
• Began career: 1995

Brandon leads sustainable investing across the firm’s real assets investments, from natural capital to the built environment. In this capacity, he leads a team supporting the timberland, agriculture, real estate, and infrastructure businesses across the investment lifecycle, including capital raising, product development, investment strategy, acquisition due diligence, sustainable asset management, and investor communications and reporting. Brandon also leads the firm’s work on nature and natural capital accounting. Prior to joining the firm, he held various roles in environmental finance, renewable energy, and mining.

• Education: M.P.A., International Development, Princeton University; M.Sc., Geology, Colorado School of Mines; B.Sc., Geology, Wheaton College
• Joined the company: 2019
• Began career: 2010

Eric is responsible for developing timberland and agriculture products that deliver on the firm’s sustainability and responsible investing priorities. In this role, he’s directly involved in developing the firm’s carbon and climate investment strategy, supporting new business development, and providing market intelligence and leadership. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Eric was a senior director with NatureVest, the impact investing arm of The Nature Conservancy, where he led asset management and the investment committee’s review of new transactions. Previously, he was a principal with The Skoll Foundation, a private foundation focused on social entrepreneurship, where he led program-related and follow-on investments.

• Education: B.S., Economics, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; M.A., International Economics and International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
• Joined the company: 2021
• Began career: 2004

Dan is responsible for leading the global water team of the firm’s timberland and agriculture businesses by working closely with investment and property management functions to develop and execute the water investment, policy, and operations strategy. Prior to joining the firm, Dan was a principal at Aither, an Australian consulting firm, where he led the rural water and water markets consulting practice area. 

• Education: First Class Honours, B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies—Environmental Policy and International Relations, Australian National University  
• Joined the company: 2019 
• Began career: 2013 

Amy is responsible for driving all aspects of investor relations for Manulife’s timberland and agriculture platform globally.  Prior to this, Amy served as director, global distribution services across the firm’s agriculture and timberland strategies.  Previously, Amy was responsible for analyzing timberland investments and monitoring economic and industry specific factors affecting the timberland asset class. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Amy worked as the Natural Resource Program Manager for the Virginia Department of Military Affairs.   

• Education: B.S., Environmental Resource Management and M.S., Forest Economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
  
• Joined the company: 2010
  
• Began career: 2002

Derren is responsible for the firm’s institutional business development, capital strategy and relationship management functions across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Derren oversaw the portfolio management of Hostplus’ global infrastructure portfolio where he was directly involved in investment evaluation and execution, strategy development and relationship management. Before joining Hostplus, Derren was part of the infrastructure team at AMP Capital Investors where he was involved in the asset management of healthcare infrastructure assets. Before the move into investment management, Derren started his career in investment banking in Australia with Goldman Sachs and Odyssey Capital.

• Education: B.C., Finance, Monash University
  
• Joined the company: 2021
  
• Began career: 2007

Peta-Gaye supports all aspects of the firm’s global transactional initiatives, operational, management and client needs in both the investment and property management businesses globally.  Prior to joining timberland and agriculture group in 2012, Peta-Gaye was AVP & senior counsel in Manulife’s investment law group and supported various debt and equity investments and corporate initiatives.  Before joining Manulife, Peta-Gaye was a real estate associate at Nixon Peabody LLP and provided legal services and advice to clients for various real estate related transactions and tax credit investments. 

• Education: B.A., English, Boston College; J.D., Boston College Law School
• Joined the company: 2003
• Began career: 1999

Dan oversees Manulife Investment Management’s timberland and agriculture groups’ risks and controls related to regulatory compliance and global investment management and property management operations. He began his career with Boston Partners Financial Group, which is affiliated with the John Hancock Financial Network, providing guidance to sales associates on securities and insurance regulations. Prior to joining the firm, Dan worked exclusively in the financial services field, focusing on investment advisor and broker-dealer compliance.

• Education: B.A., John Carroll University; J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law 
• Joined the company: 2008       
• Began career: 2002
  

Matt supports all aspects of the firm’s transactional initiatives and operational, management and client needs in investment and property management businesses globally.  Matt has experience in complex commercial real estate transactions, REITs, private fund formation, leasing, corporate governance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions.  Prior to joining the firm, Matt was senior real estate associate at Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston, providing legal services and advice to clients in various real estate related transactions.

• Education: B.A. Political Science, Bates College; J.D., American University, Washington College of Law
• Joined the company: 2019
• Began career: 2011

Eric oversees the accounting for client assets at the property management level, including reporting and tax functions for client investments in timberland and agriculture. He also serves as the assistant treasurer for several of the firm’s real estate investment trusts. Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Eric worked at a large hedge fund and a private equity fund and, earlier in his career, he worked in public accounting for Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.   

• Education: B.S., Accounting, Boston College; M.S., Taxation, Northeastern University 
  
• Joined the company: 2011 
• Began career: 2000

Samantha is responsible for overseeing financial reporting for both domestic and international farmland and timberland investments. She plays a key role in client onboarding and acquisition processes, providing accounting oversight to the client reporting team and various departments within Manulife Investment Management Timberland and Agriculture, and Manulife. Previously, Samantha was the Director, Controller of Client Reporting for Timberland and Agriculture. Before re-joining Manulife Investment Management Timberland and Agriculture in 2008, Samantha was a Senior Accountant with Fidelity Investments, where she provided accounting services for venture capital and private equity funds

• Education: M.B.A, Northeastern University; B.S., Accounting, Stonehill College
• Joined the company: 2002, 2008
• Began career: 2002

Tricia oversees Manulife Investment Management’s timberland and agriculture groups’ legal team in supporting customary and strategic transactional initiatives and operational, management, and client needs in the investment and property management businesses. Previously, she provided in-house counsel to John Hancock’s North American corporate finance group in connection with equity and debt investments. Prior to joining the firm, Tricia was a corporate attorney for sixteen years, where she provided legal services and advice to clients in all manner of business transactions, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and corporate governance. 

• Education: B.A., English and Philosophy, Boston College; J.D., Boston College Law School 
• Joined the company: 2018 
• Began career: 2000