SAN DIEGO, CA. – The Red Cow Family of Companies welcomed their newest team member Kari Conradie on November 26th, 2018. Vivo Group, Inc. has hired Kari to fill a newly created position as Project Manager, Landscape Services. Kari brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position. Born and raised in South Dakota, Kari is a graduate of Montana State University with a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture, emphasizing in Landscape Design. While attending college and after graduating in 2000, she successfully ran a private landscape design build business in Montana. She has also worked in landscape garden centers including The Tree Factory, and Cashman Nursery in Bozeman MT, where she specialized in greenhouse management, sales and landscape design.
Looking to further her career and growth in the landscape industry, Kari ventured to California in 2002. Finding herself settling in San Diego, she found employment as a project manager for one of the largest landscape development companies. With a desire to expand her capacity as a landscape management professional and horticulturalist, Kari achieved her next employment goal as Project Manager and Horticulturalist Team Member at Landsystems in 2009. Kari has since dedicated herself to continuously developing the skills of landscape design and installation, water management, plant science and proper landscape maintenance practices. Kari will be responsible for providing support to the operational team members as well as helping clients achieve their landscape goals with long term landscape management plans and strategies.