2022 Top Entrepreneur: Brandon Duke, Juniper Landscaping CEO, Fort Myers

Company: Juniper Landscaping works with developers, builders, HOAs and other commercial clients to design, build, and maintain landscaping plans. The Fort Myers-based firm currently has 17 branches statewide, about 1,700 employees and posted annual revenue of $140 million in 2021.

Duke has been CEO for six years — he bought the company from his father in 2016, when annual revenue was at about $40 million. (When he started working at the company in 2008, annual revenue was at about $3 million.) Since taking the helm, he’s focused on collaboration and innovation, making moves like putting in best-in-class operating and enterprise resource planning systems and embracing technology like CAD design, drones for documenting progress on jobs and a new autonomous mower the company recently obtained.