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Our Investment Approach

  • We partner with people who are passionate about building great businesses in the residential landscape service industry
  • We believe that stewarding the existing legacy and culture of the businesses we acquire is essential to empower the leaders and employees of those companies

Our Management Priorities

  • Ensuring our people are treated fairly and taken care of comes first
  • Every team member of our partner companies is a landscape professional
  • If we take care of our people and approach treat our work as a craft, we will be able to deliver the highest level of service to our clients

The Outcomes

Our executive and advisors have spent their careers leading men and women in small businesses with a focus on "guys in trucks" and home service industries. We aim to repeat these successes by maintaining our approach and priorities alongside new partners and team members in the residential landscape services industry. 

The Yard Alliance Team

Walker Hobson | Founder

Walker founded Yard Alliance while working as a small business investor and advisor at WSC & Company.  Walker was motivated to start Yard Alliance to leverage the skillset he developed as an investor and transaction advisor to accelerate growth alongside founders and entrepreneurs in the residential landscape service industry. At WSC, Walker led investments and transformations for portfolio investments in government services, business services, and healthcare services. Before WSC, Walker worked as an investment Banker with Piper Sandler in their business and industrial services practices. Walker also served as an infantryman, Paratrooper, and Ranger with the 82nd Airborne in Fort Bragg, NC where he was first exposed to the ideas of serving our team members first and the power of decentralized decision-making.  


Walker lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife and three young children. He is an avid outdoorsman and active member of his church.


Walker currently serves on the board of Yard Alliance. He previously served on the board of Grupo Alus, Pharmacy Specialists, and Risk Mitigation Consulting. He received his MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business and his BBA from Stetson University.  

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