Daniel Spitzer is a Co-Founder of Mountain Hazelnut Venture and also serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Daniel has founded and led several companies in Asia that have successfully combined financial objectives with social and environmental goals, including Plantation Timber Products Group (PTP), which he built into China's largest sustainable forestry company. PTP established $200 million of new facilities to process logs grown by 700,000 farmer partners in deforested Himalayan foothills and vulnerable river regions in the interior of China.