40 Under 40, Class of 2017

Jon Huntington

Company

Pleasant View Gardens

Job Title

Logistics Manager

Accomplishments

Consistently creates new and advanced processes to maximize efficiencies for his team in the company’s logistics department.
Implemented an innovative alpha sort program for pulling and arranging plant materials for delivery to customers.

Extracurricular

Daily Vitamin C: Jon can’t live without his daily glass of orange juice. His favorite food is an eggs-on-everything bagel sandwich.

Fun Facts

Debating With the Stars: Paul Newman was a regular at the Huntington family’s farmstand in Connecticut in the 1960s and 1970s. The politically liberal actor “would often have friendly debates with my conservative grandfather, Jonathan Huntington, who founded Pleasant View Gardens.”