ROCKVILLE, Maryland – According to an internal memo obtained by Lawn & Landscape, Roger Zino will step down as vice chairman of BrightView at the end of the year.
Zino had served as CEO of ValleyCrest before it was acquired by KKR in 2014 and merged with Brickman, and was president of ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance since 2001.
“I have both the deepest gratitude and respect for all that Roger has done for us over his 15 years. Let me simply say that Roger has contributed immeasurably to what BrightView will become, and on behalf of the Board and Management Team, we sincerely thank him for his tireless efforts toward building the business we have today,” BrightView CEO Andrew Kerin wrote in the memo.
Along with Zino, several other executives announced their resignations, according to the memo, including Andy Mandell, CFO and president of ValleyCrest Group; Gena Ashe, chief legal officer; and Jennifer Mintman, chief strategy officer and head of Brickman Facility Services.
As part of the executive changes, Joseph Tinney, a former executive vice president at Brickman, will serve as chief growth officer and president of Brickman Facility Services, with responsibility for national accounts, estimating and sports turf.
Tom Donnelly, former president of ValleyCrest Landscape Development, will serve as president of ValleyCrest Group with responsibility for the nursery and golf businesses.
The merger of Brickman and ValleyCrest was finalized in June of 2014 after both were purchased by private equity giant KKR. BrightView has approximate annual revenues of $2 billion with more than 20,000 employees nationwide.
Lawn & Landscape ran a story about the merger in our May Top 100 issue.
In the buildup to the merger, we ran a handful of stories covering it. Those can be found here:
