Staff Bios
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Silas Harrington resides in Charleston SC and manages our South East territory. He has extensive experience working for wholesale distributors in his area, as well as experience in irrigation and lighting contracting. Silas is IA Certified and is well connected to his territory.
Tony Manna lives in the Buffalo area and manages the Upstate / Western NY territory as well as some key accounts in the Albany area. Tony has experience as an owner of independent rep agency, a landscape lighting contracting business and managing a landscape product distributor. His passion, drive and experience are an asset to our organization and our customers.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Jon Nelson li
ves in Montreal Quebec and manages the Eastern Canadian territory. A native of the Eastern US, he uses his industry experience gained there to best serve our wholesale distribution clients. Jon has worked for a top three irrigation manufacturer, an international HVAC manufacturer, and has multiple years of experience in the distribution channel.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Christopher Pine lives on Cape Cod and is the principal of C. Pine Associates. His sales territories include New England and Mid-Atlantic. Chris’s experience in the industry includes many years as a landscape and irrigation contractor and regional sales management with irrigation manufacturers. Chris is an experienced trainer, consultant and holds many certifications in the irrigation, landscape and landscape lighting industry.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Kurt Thompson is a developer, instructor and contributor for the IrriTech Training program. Kurt has been in the landscape and irrigation industry since 1980. He is one of only eight people in the world to hold current all eight of the Irrigation Association landscape/golf irrigation certifications. Kurt has been part of the development teams for 4 national certification programs, co-authored 6 training manuals, he is one of the 7 supervising regional instructors for the IA, responsible for developing and training over 30 other instructors, also trained and spoke for many of the national green industry associations, as well as state universities and colleges.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
Olga Shvayko’s background in retail management, customer service and financial services, coupled with an undergraduate degree in Management Science and Marketing allows her to support and develop our sales team, marketing and business systems.
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