Pictured from left: Ian MacLean – President Highland Landscaping LLC Jason MacLean – Vice President Highland Landscaping LLC Tom Sullivan – Vice President Small Business Policy United States Chamber of Commerce Hon. Laura Hill – Mayor of Southlake Lindsey Polansky – CISD Intern shadowing Mayor Hill for the day Peter Ermish – Chairman Southlake Chamber of Commerce Mark Guilbert – President Southlake Chamber of Commerce John Fletcher – Owner Fletcher Consulting and Southlake Chamber Member
Highland Landscaping, a multimillion-dollar landscape and construction business in Southlake, welcomed a special guest to its office last week. Tom Sullivan, the United States Chamber of Commerce's vice president of small business policy, visited Southlake to discuss small-business policy at the federal level along with the president's agenda to lift the burden of onerous government regulation.
Highland Landscaping's owner and president Ian MacLean has served two terms as chairman and is currently on the executive board of directors for the Southlake Chamber of Commerce. MacLean is passionate about the growth of small businesses in Southlake and around the country.
Mark Guilbert, president of the Southlake Chamber of Commerce, Peter Ermish, chairman of the Southlake Chamber of Commerce, and Southlake Mayor Laura Hill joined in the meeting to discuss the state of small business in Southlake.