Our Team

Our company head office is based in Buffalo Grove, IL. We employ over 1400 colleagues, who work in 40 plus locations throughout North America.

Meet our senior managers who lead the sales and operations for Ambius in North America.

Sally Briese, President

As President, Sally Briese oversees over 40 branch offices in the United States and Canada representing over $100M in revenues. As president of Ambius, Sally can relate to the challenges faced by her staff — in her 28 years at the company, she has held a wide variety of positions...

Randall Smestad, Chief Financial Officer

Randy Smestad is CFO of Ambius, and is located at the headquarters facility in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Randy, who has worked for Ambius for over two decades, is responsible for all financial and tax aspects of our operations, as well as operational responsibility for Primescape Products, our wholesale supply house...

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KrisAnne Mehan, Executive Vice President, West Region

KrisAnne Mehan is a Regional Vice President for Ambius, West Region. KrisAnne has worked in the interiorscape industry for over 20 years and is responsible for the day-to-day operations for the West Coast Region of the United States...

Barry Clements, Executive Vice President, East Region

Barry Clements is the Regional Vice President of the East Region for Ambius. Headquartered in the Washington, DC Branch office, Barry is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the fifteen Initial Tropical Plant operations in the East region of the United States...

Larry Rutkowski, Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Larry Rutkowski has extensive sales, marketing and operational leadership experience. Larry is responsible for national sales, new products and services and North American marketing and is a major contributor to the company’s overall strategic sales direction...

Bob Ruzga, Vice President, Information Technology

Bob Ruzga joined Ambius in June 1984. He has over 22 years of experience in all areas of IT including strategy planning, infrastructure management, change management, IT compliance, systems administration, application development and vendor management...

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Mike Purcell, Vice President of Human Resources

Mike Purcell has been with the Company 22 years and is responsible for all areas of human resources, policy development and administration, benefit programs, training and development programs, payroll, employee relations legal compliance, executive and management recruitment,