Landscape Management Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones spoke with LandCare Executive VP and CEO Mike Bogan to discuss specifics of the LandCare sale and adding Scott Brickman to its board of directors. read more
Editor’s note: After publishing, Editor-in-Chief Seth Jones sat down with LandCare Executive VP and CEO Mike Bogan to discuss specifics of the LandCare sale. Below is an update on the new management structure. Aurora Resurgence, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, announced that it sold LandCare, a national provider of landscape maintenance services, to the company’s management team and a small... read more
Last week, a Texas jury awarded $39 million in damages to the family of a Houston firefighter who was killed when his bike collided with a landscape trailer owned by The Brickman Group, now BrightView. The company plans to appeal the decision. Michelle Braswell, the widow of Capt. W. Mark Braswell, filed a wrongful death suit against Brickman and its... read more
It’s hard to look ahead when you’re speeding at 100 mph, but at some point, you have to set your sights on a finish line. When the time comes to sell your company, will you have built something that’s attractive to buyers? A recent Forbes article dissects the 2009 Brickman Group acquisition of D. Foley Landscape, a full-service commercial firm in Walpole, Mass. Brickman has... read more
BrightView appointed Andrew Masterman as president and CEO. Masterman, who also will join the company’s board of directors, succeeds Pat Velasco, who has served as interim CEO since July when Andrew Kerin stepped down. Velasco, will remain on BrightView’s board of directors, will continue in that role until Masterman joins the company next month. BrightView is the new brand for the... read more
BrightView CEO Andrew Kerin is stepping down. He’s succeeded by interim CEO Pat Velasco. The Rockville, Md.-based company, formed by the merger of the Brickman Group and ValleyCrest Cos., made the announcement in a statement posted on its website July 21. BrightView is working with executive search firm Korn Ferry to retain a permanent CEO. “We thank Andrew for his... read more
