Who We Are

Executive Team

Jim Dooley, PhD, P.E., CTO

Jim Dooley, PhD, P.E., CTO

Dr. Dooley’s degrees include BS and M.Eng. in agricultural engineering and a PhD in forest resources/forest engineering. Dr. Dooley held a number of engineering, business development and technical management positions with major corporations, including Amfac (tropical agriculture and sugar cane) and Weyerhaeuser (forest products and timber), during a twenty-two year career with multi-national corporations. 

Dr. Dooley was the 2008 President of The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He is a Fellow of three engineering professional societies.

Mike Perry, CEO​

Mike Perry, CEO

Bringing senior management experience to Forest Concepts, Mike was previously C.O.O. for Tessera, Inc., and prior to that, Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Worldwide, for Ostex International, Inc. 

He spent more than twenty-three years in senior level marketing and sales positions in divisions of Warner Lambert and AKZO Nobel, both Fortune 100 companies, and received a BS in Business from Cornell University.

Forest Concepts Staff

David Lanning, Senior Engineer

Chris Lanning

Chris Lanning, Design Engineer

Matt Wamsley

Matt Wamsley, Statistician/Technician

Chris McKiernan

Christopher McKiernan, Mechanical Engineer

Jason Perry

Jason Perry, Operations Manager

Shawn Baugher, Technician