Visterra is proud to be #VeteranLed

Alan T. Handley

President & CEO Visterra Landscape Group

Operation Desert Storm/Shield
1st Marine Expeditionary Force
1988 – 1996
U.S. Marine Corps

Brook Haygood

Vice President, Sales Visterra Landscape Group

Psychological Operations – 346 PSYOP 2X Iraq, 2X Afghanistan 2000 – 2023
U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps

Jorge Calero

Director of Operations Dyna-Mist, a Visterra company

Supply
1985 to1988 USS Iowa
1990 – 1997 Grand Prairie (TX) Reserves Center
U.S. Navy

Paul McKunes

Business Development, Culture Riverside Services, a Visterra company

Georgia Air Force Base, San Bernardino, CA
Transportation
U.S. Air Force

Josh Nealon

Account Manager Riverside Services, a Visterra company

Corporal, Field Wireman
2012 – 2018
U.S. Marine Corps

Steve Petersen

Director of Construction H&M Landscaping, a Visterra company

Force Protection
MOBSECRON 3 DET32
2001 – 2006
U.S. Navy

Christopher DeWerth

Crew Leader H&M Landscaping, a Visterra company

Mechanic
E Co 1227 1st Cav Brigade
2005 – 2010
U.S. Army

Ron Neitzel

Fertilizer Technician & Snow Truck Operator, H&M Landscaping, a Visterra company

Tank Mechanic
64th Armored Battalion, Germany
1985
U.S. Army

Will Wigg

Branch Operations Manager Oberson’s, a Visterra company

1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2 Marine Division
Fire Team Leader, Infantry
2006 – 2010
U.S. Marine Corps

Richard (Rick) Henry

Account Manager Full Care, a Visterra company

Sargent over an artillery battery
1/319 AFAR (Airborne Field Artillery Regiment)
1986 – 1991
U.S. Army

Shawn Prevatt

Operations Manager Outdoor Pride, a Visterra company

USS Nimitz CVN68 USS Carl Vinson CVN70
Aviation Structural Mechanic
2016 – 2021
U.S. Navy

Bob Wilson

Retired Vice President GroundsPRO, a Visterra company

Ohio Air National Guard
Avionics Maintenance Squadron
1975 – 1982
U.S. Air Force

Desi Sargent

Payroll Manager

Staff Sergeant/ Weapons Sgt/75th Ranger Battalion
1987 – 1998
US Army

Alan Handley

President and Chief Executive Officer

Alan Handley is a transformational essential services industry leader and President and Chief Executive Officer of Visterra Landscape Group, a Top 30 premier commercial landscaping platform. Alan’s leadership has helped fuel Visterra’s dramatic growth, surging 2024 revenues by 49 percent to $119 million. Alan has built a dynamic people- and safety-focused culture at Visterra, introducing free healthcare plans and screenings for all field labor and landing back-to-back safety excellence awards from the National Association of Landscape Professionals. In 2024 and 2025, Visterra was named a Best Places to Work in Landscaping winner by the editors of Lawn & Landscape magazine.

Prior to Visterra, Alan served more than a decade at LRS, one of the nation’s largest privately-held waste, recycling and portable services providers. Alan transformed LRS from a local $50 million provider to generating revenues in excess of 12X over 11 years, growing the company’s footprint from one to 11 states. Alan also managed three company recapitalizations, including a successful exit in 2022, to Macquarie Asset Management valued at over $1.2 billion.

Prior to LRS, Alan served as Executive Vice President and CFO at the Aldridge Group, one of the nation’s leading electrical technology partners, where he co-led the growth of that business from $140 million to $500 million and executed a successful exit in 2012. Earlier in his career, Alan ascended to leadership positions at KPMG, Heller Financial Services and Price Waterhouse.

Alan earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he later served as an adjunct professor, and holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Northern Illinois University (NIU). In the early 1990s, Alan was mobilized in Operation Desert Storm, serving the nation in the United States Marine Corps.

He is actively involved in raising awareness and support for individuals impacted by Lupus through his leadership with University of Chicago Medicine and the Lupus Society of Illinois. His board commitments include: the Lupus Society of Illinois, the Pediatric Lupus Clinic at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital, and serving as chairman of the Board of Executive Advisors at the NIU College of Business.

Alan and his lovely wife, Ann, have been married for over 30 years and raised four beautiful daughters. Alan enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, traveling the world, flying, sailing, scuba diving and mountaineering. He is passionate about protecting green spaces through environmental conservation, and ridding plastic from the world’s oceans.