Samantha Turner is a Senior Real Estate Manager with Weyerhaeuser Company, one of the world's largest forest products companies, dating back to 1900. It grows and harvests trees, builds homes and makes a range of forest products essential to everyday lives. The company owns approximately 6.6 million acres of timberlands throughout the United States with over 100 operational sites throughout the U.S. and internationally in support of its timber operations, and it is one of the largest manufacturers of wood and cellulose fibers products, and develops real estate, primarily as a builder of single-family homes. The company is headquartered in Federal Way, Washington.

Samantha is responsible for the company's operational real estate portfolio for the Western United States. The portfolio consists of owned and leased facilities ranging in diversity from an integrated plant site encompassing over 750 acres with multiple internal business operations and third party tenants, to its corporate headquarter campus, to one person offices. Her responsibilities include working directly with the individual business units on near and long-term strategic planning, site selection, and oversight of their real estate holdings. She is also responsible for the closure, management and disposition of surplus properties from ceased operations. Samantha has participated on several multi-faceted teams to manage the real estate portion of business divestitures. Since joining the company in early 2009, she has completed a variety of real estate transactions totaling over 200.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Samantha holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and is a graduate of the University's Certificate Program in Commercial Real Estate. Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser, her career in real estate has spanned over 20 years. She has held a variety of positions in commercial real estate; from property management and lease administration with Trammell Crow Company, to leasing manager for a 1.6 million square foot downtown Seattle high-rise portfolio with Unico Properties, and with CB Richard Ellis as Senior Transaction Manager with its Global Corporate Services division, dedicated to in-house representation for Washington Mutual Bank, responsible for transaction management of the Western region, encompassing 8 states totaling over 2.6 million sf of office and retail space.

Samantha is the current Secretary of Industrial Asset Management Council, the leading association for industrial asset managers and corporate real estate executives, service providers, and economic developers. She also serves as a co-chair for its Manufacturing Industry Group, which focuses on issues specifically related to corporate end-users in the heavy industrial and manufacturing sectors.

Ms. Turner resides in Renton, Washington with her husband, Venice, and their four daughters.