Tom Sarno has been named Managing Director of Timberland and Farmland Operations for the Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG), as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
In the newly created position, Mr. Sarno will be responsible for overseeing the global property management operations of the HTRG and Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG).
Based in Charlotte, NC, he will report to both HTRG President Brent Keefer and HAIG President Oliver Williams, and become a member of the HNRG Executive Committee.
Before taking on this role, Mr. Sarno was HTRG’s Director of Global Operations, responsible for the timber group’s property management operations of 5.8 million acres of timberland in the United States, Canada, Chile, Australia and New Zealand. HAIG has approximately 300,000 acres of farmland under management in the Australia, Canada and the United States.
Mr. Sarno, who joined HNRG in 2004, has served in a number of roles in the organization including Senior Portfolio Manager; General Manager, Southern Division, and Mid-Atlantic Region Manager for Hancock Forest Management. Before joining HNRG, he had worked for International Paper and at Champion International Corporation.
The Hancock Timber Resource Group, founded in 1985, is a division of Hancock Natural Resource Group, Inc., a unit of Manulife Asset Management Private Markets. Based in Boston, it manages approximately 5.8 million acres of timberland in the United States, Brazil, Chile, Canada, New Zealand and Australia on behalf of investors worldwide.
