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Building a Legacy around People and Culture Douglas York
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The Power of Data Utkarsh Sharma
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Frank Mariani – Founder and Executive Chairman, Mariani Premier Group In 1973, Frank Mariani became President of Mariani Landscape at 19 years old following the tragic passing of his father, Vito Mariani, Sr., who had founded the company in 1958. Under Frank’s leadership, what began as a small residential landscape […]
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Brothers Kurt and Matt Bland grew up in an entrepreneurial household as the children of Tom and Nancy Bland in Apex, North Carolina. As founders of Bland Landscaping Company (ca. 1976), at an early age Tom and Nancy exposed Kurt and Matt to the successes and the challenges of running […]
Chris Lee is the president of EarthWorks and has over 24 years of green industry experience. He has worked for EarthWorks since 1998 and is a certified apartment supplier, licensed irrigator (LI 18300), and licensed pesticide applicator (#078546). Chris studied business at the University of Arkansas, and horticulture and landscape […]
Neville Stein, 61 trades as ‘Neville Stein Horticultural Business Consultant’. Primarily working in the ‘land based’ sector Neville has become recognized as an expert business consultant amongst SMEs and family enterprises and has worked with a wide range of organizations both in the UK and internationally including Ireland, Israel, Eastern […]
Drew grew up in San Diego, California and chased his childhood dream of becoming a Major League Baseball Player up through his late twenties. In October of 2015 he shifted careers, joining his father at Rancho Mesa Insurance Services, a 16 time National Best Practices Independent Insurance Agency with a […]
Ron and his wife Sally were operating a small garden center when in 1966, a chance encounter landed them a lifechanging contract doing landscape restoration work for a local utility. Over the next 53 years they grew Kujawa Enterprises, Inc. (KEI) into a nationally recognized, four-season, full-service commercial landscape management […]
David’s professional background includes over 30 years in mid-market business ownership and management. As owner, CEO or second-in-command his teams consistently scaled new business and operations in several industries. In 2012 David founded strategy firm Growth Factor Group, Inc. focused on assisting lower mid-market CEO/Owners providing services for impact and […]
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Kelly has over 15 years of experience working at a residential landscape maintenance company in St. Louis, Missouri. Starting young plowing snow with her dad and mailing invoices with her mom – she was quite literally born into the green industry. Since those early days, she’s trail-blazed nearly every position, […]
Katie Elzer-Peters is the founder and CEO of The Garden of Words, LLC, a digital marketing firm that specializes in green industry clients. For 14 years she has helped brick and mortar and e-commerces businesses of every size (from small, family-owned to large corporations) grow and thrive in the digital […]
