Florida Environmental Consulting Company
VISION: To maximize the environmental value of property and find solutions to complex environmental business challenges for developers.
Verde Environmental Co is an environmental consulting company that works with landowners to monetize high priority conservation properties across Florida. Verde delivers competitive returns to its landowners through the use of new regulations that reward landowners for the restoration and protection of critical natural resources like wetlands, streams, and endangered species.
Justin Fleischman is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for Verde. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 2004 with a B.S. in Ecosystem Restoration and Management (Soil Science Minor), Justin moved to Florida with a passion for ecosystem design and earned an M.S. in Systems Ecology and Ecological Engineering from the University of Florida in 2010.
Justin began his professional career as an Environmental Scientist in 2007. He spent a total of 8 years honing his skills full time before co-founding Verde Environmental Co. During this time, Justin managed 7 mitigation banking projects from concept through design, permitting, construction and bank operations. His responsibilities included stream restoration, wetland restoration, mitigation banking, water quality analysis, hydrological modeling, wetland delineation, habitat assessment, forest ecosystem assessment and prairie restoration and stormwater wetland management.
Justin Fleischman is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer for Verde. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 2004 with a B.S. in Ecosystem Restoration and Management (Soil Science Minor), Justin moved to Florida with a passion for ecosystem design and earned an M.S. in Systems Ecology and Ecological Engineering from the University of Florida in 2010.
Justin began his professional career as an Environmental Scientist in 2007. He spent a total of 8 years honing his skills full time before co-founding Verde Environmental Co. During this time, Justin managed 7 mitigation banking projects from concept through design, permitting, construction and bank operations. His responsibilities included stream restoration, wetland restoration, mitigation banking, water quality analysis, hydrological modeling, wetland delineation, habitat assessment, forest ecosystem assessment and prairie restoration and stormwater wetland management.
Scott Blanford is another co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for Verde. Scott is a native Floridian, and spent much of his childhood on his family’s farm in Volusia County hunting, fishing, and developing his love of ecosystems. Scott earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Florida before working off and on as an Environmental Scientist for 8 years. Scott's responsibilities included vegetation monitoring, listed species surveys, wetland delineation, habitat assessment, forest ecosystem assessment, invasive species control, pond management, GIS analysis, prairie restoration and stormwater wetland management.
Juliann Blanford, CPA - CFO
Juliann is the Chief Financial Officer for Verde. She has over 10 years of accounting, finance and marketing experience. Prior to co-founding Verde, she worked for DMEautomotive, a leader in the automotive marketing industry where she served as Accounting Manager coordinating financial reporting as well as budgeting and finance.
Prior to joining DMEautomotive, Juliann worked for Ernst & Young and James Moore for five years contributing to several audits in government, manufacturing, healthcare and non-profit audits.