Spenser Shadle
Managing Director
Spenser co-founded Alder Point Capital Management in 2022 and leads investments in farmland and timberland, serving on the firm’s Investment Committee, while also leading the firm’s internal operations and asset management functions. He has over 12 years of experience across real asset investing and asset management.
Prior to Alder Point, Spenser served as Director of Finance & Business Development for Heartwood Biomass, a forest products manufacturing business advancing forest restoration and rural economic resilience, and held the role of Senior Vice President, Real Assets at New Island Capital Management, where he led both capital deployment and asset management for US timberland, farmland, and environmental markets investments. Earlier in his career, he served as Program Officer for World Wildlife Fund’s climate change work with Fortune 500s and supported USAID projects in Africa.
Spenser holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Master of Forestry from the Yale School of the Environment, and a BA from Colorado College. Spenser lives near his roots on a small former dairy farm in Northeastern Oregon.
