About Robert Ott Landscaping
Toms River-based Robert Ott Landscaping is Ocean and Monmouth Counties’ premiere landscaping company dedicated to providing quality landscaping, hardscaping, and lawn maintenance services. Read our complete history or scroll down to meet the people at the heart of our organization.
Bob Ott
Bob started Toms River-based Robert Ott Landscaping in 1978. As an ICPI certified, state certified, and state licensed landscape designer and contractor, Bob has been building, supervising, and designing landscapes for over 30 years. As one of Toms River’s most experienced and reputable businessmen, Bob is the president of the Ocean County Business Association—an elite group of Ocean County’s finest businessmen and women.
A happily married father of three, Bob lives with the loves of his life, wife Dr. Mona Yousef-Ott, and his youngest child, Aleia. His son, Jan, recently graduated from Eastern University and is working for an environmental consulting firm. While his oldest daughter, Jeanelle, attends college and works full-time. Jeanelle is considering landscape architecture as her curriculum, and may very well one day take over the family business.
Bob grew up at the Jersey Shore and spent most of his life in Toms River. He recently moved to Manasquan where he lives with his wife and youngest daughter.
Matt Hellow
“The Maestro” Matt started working at Robert Ott Landscaping in 1986 when he was just 17-years-old. Bob says, “His hard work, dedication, and loyalty has helped build Robert Ott Landscaping into what it is today.”
Matt runs the clean-up and lawn maintenance divisions from spring through fall, and works as a hardscape specialist in the winter. With over 23 years experience and being ICPI certified, Matt is “hands down” one of the most experienced and sought after landscape and lawn maintenance leaders in Ocean County.
When Matt isn’t working, he’s usually playing guitar and is an excellent jazz-blues musician.
Dan Torsiello
Dan has been working at Robert Ott Landscaping since 1989 and is also ICPI Certified. As our hardscape leader and with his extensive mechanical, engineering, and architectural abilities, he has been setting the standard for hardscape design and installation in Ocean County for almost 20 years. Through his efforts, Robert Ott Landscaping has become the area’s most sought after hardscape specialist.
Dan is originally from Northing Arlington but moved to the Jersey Shore in 1963. He lives in Island Heights with his wife of 23 years, Janet , and son Daniel. Daniel is an honors student at Rutgers University and is the manager of their basketball team. Daniel wants to teach history after he earns his Masters Degree.
James Strodel
James is the company’s “neat freak” and perfectionist. He came to Robert Ott Landscaping in 1994 and in his 14 years with the company, he has done it all. This jack-of-all-trades ran the lawn maintenance division for over 10 years, has run clean-up, maintenance, and landscape crews. Though an expert in every aspect of landscaping, he has recently become our master brick paver and hardscape specialist.
James grew up in Toms River and now resides in Bayville with the love of his life, Michele, and 2 year old son Jaden.
Anthony Englehardt
Tony, a member of the legendary “Cerami” family, came to Robert Ott Landscaping in 1998. Like James, he has done almost everything for us. Currently he’s in charge of our new container/dumpster division, as well as equipment and fleet maintenance, and is responsible for keeping our trucks and equipment shining! Tony is the “go to” guy, and does everything from picking up and delivering trucks, dumpsters, equipment and supplies. Tony is another talented landscape professional who can truly do it all!
Tony is the sixth generation of his family to be born and raised in Toms River. He lives in Toms River and has two beautiful daughters, Alexis , 9, and Micayla, 4.
Ed Korth
Ed has 15 years landscaping experience and has been working at Robert Ott Lanscaping since 2005. A certified landscape technician and certified & licensed pesticide applicator, Ed is our lawn chemical specialist and is solely in charge of the Tree, Shrub & Lawn Chemical Division.
Ed wears a lot of hats in our company. He organizes and supervises clean-up, maintenance, and landscape crews; keeps all the landscape inventory and material records … all this while making sure we all get paid by taking care of payroll.
Originally from Bergen County, Ed resides in Bayville with his wife of 25 years, Suzie.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara, or Babo, as the guys like to call her, was hired in 1998 to manage our garden center and supply yard. Today, she manages much more than that!
She keeps our trees, shrubs, perennials and flowers healthy, orders our supplies, runs the supply yard, answers the phones, returns the customers calls, schedules appointments, handles customer concerns, keeps the books, does the billing and collects the money. Whew!
She is the communication link between our customers and crews. She has been Bobs “right hand man” for many years.
Barbara has tried to retire to Florida with Jack, her husband of 27 years, but we won’t let her. Instead Barbara still works for Robert Ott Landscaping, traveling back and forth … from Toms River to North Port. That, my friends, is a long commute!
Chris O’Shaughnessy
Chris is an integral part of our crew. He delivers top soil, mulch, and stone to our customers; and supplies to our crews. In winter, Chris is a foreman with our snow removal crews and is responsible for making sure our customers and their employees come to work on clear walks and safe steps.
Chris has been a friend of Robert Ott Landscaping since he was a child. He is one of Bob’s oldest and dearest friends.
A lifelong resident of Toms River, Chris volunteers with the local first aid and two different fire companies.