Ruppert Landscape names director of business development

LAYTONSVILLE, Md. – Ruppert Landscape promoted Paul Pestun to serve as its director of business development in the landscape construction division.

Pestun joined Ruppert as an assistant field manager in 2012 with more than 10 years of landscape construction experience. After a few months, he was promoted to a newly created position of assistant production manager. In 2014, he was promoted to serve as business developer in the company’s national landscape construction branch. His efforts helped the national construction branch set a division record of $34.1 million in sales for 2017, with projects sold in Dallas, Austin, Oklahoma City and Lexington, Kentucky.

“This new position will be an expansion of Paul’s current responsibilities as national business developer,” said Bob Jones, president of the landscape construction division. “We’re confident that he will become a valuable resource to our sales teams.”

In the new position, Pestun will be responsible for working with the sales team at each landscape construction branch to help unify sales efforts. He will also be responsible for tracking market trends and creating new sales opportunities on a national level, targeting markets with high construction volume and generating relationships with owners, developers, general contractors and landscape architects.