Andrew Raddish

Co-Founder

Andrew is a recruiter. Four years in the Marines, then years hiring across the world, from call center floors to the C-suite. Now he finds leaders for the green industry.

The road in

As a kid, Andrew worked summers on the crew of his father's small landscape business. It was a first job, not a calling.

He left for the Marines. Four years as an infantry mortarman at Camp Lejeune, and a stretch as a combat marksmanship coach, on the range with Marines of every rank. That is where he first learned to lead. Not by doing it for people, and not by standing over them. By helping them find it themselves.

After the service came social work in Pinellas County, which taught him to show up every day, for himself and for the people counting on him. Then recruiting, and he never looked back. He has hired across nine countries, from call center floors to the C-suite, and learned how leaders actually think. He has sat with people running businesses worth tens and hundreds of millions who were just as proud of the family waiting at home.

Then he found the green industry. He had never met more passionate working professionals, account managers who know more chemistry than most chemists, branch leaders who built whole lives in the trade. He partnered with Noah to build Live Oak. When Live Oak goes looking for your next leader, Andrew is the one looking.