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K.C. Fisher
President
Kelley C. (K.C.) Fisher, founder and owner, is from a family of horticulturists dating to 1874. He started Landcare in 1972 while earning a degree in finance at the University of South Florida. After graduation, K.C. found he had a passion for horticulture and worked to build a regional full-service
landscape management company. It was important to K.C that this company be large enough to handle any size client, but small enough to keep the personal relationships that matter to the clients and staff.
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Richard Ellis
General Manager/Operations Manager
Richard began his career in horticulture upon graduating from
high school. He began in a local nursery and later went to work for a landscape contractor where he honed his skills installing landscapes and irrigation systems. His next major step was taking the position of production
manager with a large landscape contractor. There he handled sales, purchasing and crew management. In 2002, he became Landcare's
General Manager in charge of maintenance, pest control, fertilization and tree care.
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Debra Morgan
Chief Operations Officer
Debra Morgan is a South Tampa native. She attended
Plant High School and St. Petersburg College. After six years of employment as an accounting supervisor for insurance company, she spent the next 25 years as office manager of a local manufacturing company. In 2005, she joined Landcare as
Chief Operations Officer, managing all aspects of Landcare's
internal operations.
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Jerry Roque
Management and
Sales
Jerry Roque has earned the designation of “Certified Irrigation Site Manager” from the Florida Irrigation Society and has been actively involved in the green industry for over
16 years. After attending Hillsborough Community College, Jerry began his career in the field, learning the business inside and out. Jerry has worked on and managed mowing, detail, landscape and fertilization crews. He learned plant identification and proper techniques of plant installation at the same time he was learning marketing and management as assistant to the owner. Jerry became lead account representative in 1990. His many years of experience and strong ethics continue to be an asset to Landcare. Jerry became
Sales Manager and a limited partner in 1995.
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Linda Yochim
Office Administrator
Linda attended college at the University of Cincinnati and in 1980, moved to Tampa to attend the University of South Florida. Her past employment includes project manager of a marketing research company, and bankruptcy specialist/loan officer for a finance
company. She joined Landcare as office Administrator in 2001.
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Kelley
Fisher Sadlowski
Jr. Vice President
Kelley is a graduate of H.B. Plant High School in Tampa .
After earning a degree in public relations at the University of
Florida, she worked as a Realtor for five years. Kelley
joined her father's company in 2007 and has been continually
learning different aspects of the company operations.
Currently, she is developing a new marketing strategy to further
advance Landcare's already progressive growth.
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Ken Sarazin
Assistant Operations Manager
Kenny moved from Vermont to the Tampa Bay area
in 1995. Kenny took a position with a landscape contractor beginning his experience in the industry. After
two years of performing landscape installs, he took a position doing commercial maintenance with a large
company. Kenny joined the Landcare team in November of 2002 as a detail foreman. After three years of excellent work, he was promoted to Assistant Operations Manager.
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Ray Ivery
Landscape Supervisor
Ray is a lifelong resident and graduate of H.
B. Plant High School. He has been in the landscape industry
since 1994. He joined Landcare in 1999, as a Landscape Laborer and worked his way to
a Landscape Supervisor. Ray's duties include overseeing and
scheduling of new landscape installation, client tree work, as well as emergency services.
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Leonard Wiener
Equipment Manager
Leonard joined Landcare in 2002. His past experiences include service in the U.S
Navy, small business ownership, manufacturing plant manager and distribution department
supervisor. Lenny supervises the renovation and upgrading of Landcare's equipment and fleet management program via
fleet management software.
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