Bob Lyle

Special Advisor to the President

Bob currently serves as Special Advisor to the President, where he assists and advises Molpus’s President on acquisitions, business development, investment design, strategic planning, and any such other matters as may arise. Bob is also the managing broker of record for Molpus. Bob previously served as Molpus Woodlands Group’s (Molpus) second President. He was also a member of Molpus’s Investment Committee as well as serving on the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO).

In 1989, Bob joined Dick Molpus on the staff at the Mississippi Secretary of State’s office, where his duties included assisting approximately 90 school districts with management of more than 600,000 acres of public trust school lands. He served as Assistant Secretary of State until 1993. He then joined the Molpus gubernatorial campaign as its finance director until December of 1995. Bob then served as executive assistant and legal counsel for Mississippi’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce until he joined The Molpus Company in July 1996.

Bob is a longtime member of the board of directors of PriorityOne Bank, where he serves on the Executive and Compensation Committees. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Mississippi Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, serving as its Vice Chairman, as well as serving as a Southern Division Trustee Cabinet member of The Nature Conservancy. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the NAFO and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Millsaps College. Additionally, he is a board member of “We Care” Food and Clothing ministry serving as its chairman in Scott County. He is also a member of the Mississippi Bar Association and a past member of the American Bar Association.

Bob is a graduate of Millsaps College (BBA 1979) and Mississippi College School of Law (JD 1988). Prior to attending law school, Bob worked as an independent insurance agent and a real estate broker, and he currently holds real estate broker licenses in thirteen states.

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