01 The Industry
Noah Sipes
Who We Are
The people behind every search.
Most leadership hiring in this industry is transactional. We run the real search to find the person who moves your business, and we tell you the truth the whole way through.
The Partners
Two backgrounds. One firm.
02 The Search
Andrew Raddish
Industry fluency and real search discipline. Live Oak is both.
Noah SipesCo-Founder
Noah grew up across family horticulture businesses, where he learned how green industry companies operate and grow, and how much the right people matter over time. Before Live Oak, he worked with enterprise teams at the Fortune 500 level, advising large organizations through complex growth and operational challenges.
Andrew RaddishCo-Founder
Andrew built his career in recruiting, research, and search operations, with a clear view of how hiring decisions shape performance and long-term growth. Before Live Oak, he led recruiting across complex organizations, running disciplined searches and sharpening how teams hire in competitive markets.
The Lens
The view most of this field doesn't have.
Between us, we've placed leaders up and down the green industry.
We've also operated at the enterprise level, in Fortune 500 rooms, across nine countries, through the growth and the hard cycles that test a company.
We've seen what strong leadership looks like at every scale. That's the bar we recruit to.
We know this industry. We also know industry.
Why We Built It
The wrong leader sets a company back for years.
The right one changes what it can become.
A decision that big should be run by people who know the work and will tell you the truth.
That is why we built Live Oak.