Advisory Board

Jon Calle has 30 years in the structural retaining wall and landscape industry having worked on both supply and installation sides of business. Jon has a combination of field and office experience allowing for a unique insight into the daily challenges faced throughout the project management process. In more recent years focus has been on administrative responsibilities including human resource management, purchasing and cost accounting, customer and vendor relations, safety and injury prevention, and maintaining overall company strategy for smart growth and financial health. Jon holds several US patents on systems and devices used in his industry. Jon has worked alongside a Latino workforce for most of his career first in the Denver and Rocky Mountain region and then in the Philadelphia and MidAtlantic region. He has focused heavily on the H2B seasonal visa program since 2014 as major program changes and visa cap restrictions presented new challenges for his and other user companies. By 2017 his approach changed that whatever knowledge he gained through involvement and political advocacy should be shared across the H2B community to support the common cause. He has organized meetings and other events from fund raisers to mock lotteries with the assistance of SEA Labor to educate legislators, suppliers, customers, user companies, and the media on the need for program stability by making the returning worker exemption (RWE) PERMANENT. He is a firm believer in immigration based on merit and the use of the non immigrant H2B seasonal work program is a huge first in that process.