Redlin & Associates (hortexpert.com) 1998-Present
Expert in evaluations of nursery businesses and live goods inventories for insurance companies, lending institutions and estates in settlements, succession planning, sale of business or marriage dissolution. Furnish expert testimony in court in such cases. Conducting Appraisal and Valuation work as a professional since 1998. Offering both inventory and asset valuations plus full Business Valuation Services. Certified by The Certified Appraisers Guild of America (CAGA) specializing in Nursery Valuations. Active as a broker and grower of native nursery stock (DBA Byron Nursery byronnursery.com) Marketplace activity keeps me current with trends, practices and marketplace values.

Direct Value Nursery, inc 1996-2002
St Charles IL President
Re-Wholesale Nursery Yard supplying landscapers and contractors in the Chicagoland area as well as direct ship brokerage to the Landscape Contractor marketplace. Company closed due to lease problems. DVN had sales of two million dollars.

American Nursery Products (Midwestern Nursery) 1991-1996
Tahlequah OK Marketing and Sales
Container Growing Operation shipping product to retail sites, big box stores, wholesale suppliers and others in 5 states. Built the business book to twice it’s normal volume in one year. Ball and Burlap, Containers and Perennial were the product mix. At the time this was the largest publicly traded nursery operation in the USA.

Besser Vibro Corporation 1990-1991
Lauffen Germany President/CEO (Geschäftsführer)
Head of company manufacturing equipment that produced ornamental paving stones and concrete brick products. It was a foreign subsidiary of Besser Corporation of Alpena MI. My purpose was to liquidate the company. Facilities were sold to a German Buyer.