KG LANDSCAPE - Key Persons

Kent Gliadon

Job Titles:
  • Designer
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Owner
  • Principal Designer, President
Kent Gliadon is the Principal Designer, President and Owner of KG Landscape. Kent has over 20 years of green industry experience. He studied landscape architecture and earned a bachelors degree in Environmental Horticulture at the University of Minnesota, emphasizing in turf science and landscape design. Kent works with clients everyday and is passionate about sharing his extensive landscaping knowledge. If your are inquiring about a design/build project, Kent will likely be the person you work with from your first inquiry, through the design process and all the way to project completion. Kent started in the green industry at the age of 15, when he began "borrowing" his parents lawn mower to provide yard services in his neighborhood. His Mom's love of flowers and his Dads efforts to achieve the perfect lawn, showed him that these are things that give people joy and are worth learning about. 22 years later, Kent is still passionate about landscaping and using everything he's learned to provide great advice, smart ideas and excellent services to our clients.

Russell Gliadon

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
  • Member of the Leadership Team
Russell Gliadon is a Partner and General Manager at KG Landscape. He has over 15 years of experience working in the green industry. Russell has worked just about every position at KG Landscape, ever since working summers here during his college years. Russell started full time as an Account Manger back in 2010, after receiving his B.A. in communication studies from St. John's University. Fun fact, Russell was the kicker for the St. Johns football team and is still semi-famous back is St. Joseph to this day :) See for yourself The Kick Video (don't tell him we posted this!) Russell's day to day focus is on helping facilitate high quality landscaping services for our clients, as well as commercial and residential snow and ice removal services in the winter. His is dedication and professionalism have proven invaluable to the customer experience at KG Landscape Management.