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180one is pleased to announce our recent partnership with Bennett and the resulting hire of their new Chief Financial Officer Founded in 1929, Bennett is a trusted, family-led provider of water, plant health, and energy solutions for growers with locations in California’s Central Valley and Hawaii. Based in Selma, California, and now led by fourth-generation CEO Tyler Bennett, the company offers fully integrated services to maximize resource efficiency - delivering turnkey solutions that help customers maximize yields, improve water efficiency, and enhance crop health. What began as a family-run business, Bennett grew alongside the farming communities it served, built on a commitment to practical solutions, dependable service, and long-term relationships. Over the decades, Bennett continued to evolve with the needs of the industry. As agriculture faced new challenges around efficiency, resource management, and crop performance, the company expanded its capabilities to support operations in more ways. Through each stage of that growth, one principle remained constant: focus on solving real problems in the field and stand behind their work. In August of 2025, Pike Street Capital made an investment in Bennett to help facilitate continued growth and geographical expansion. More information is available at www.bennett.llc . Congratulations to Bennett and the 180one Search Team on a successful executive placement!
180one is pleased to announce our recent partnership with Globe Machine and the resulting hire of their new Board Member For over a century, Globe Machine Manufacturing Company has been at the forefront of delivering custom-engineered factory solutions for manufacturers. Our solutions combine decades of proven mechanical performance with cutting-edge automation, controls, and robotics, empowering our customers to achieve next-level operational efficiency. Globe Machine was acquired by Westward Partners in 2024. Westward Partners is a Seattle-based private equity firm investing in lower-middle-market businesses across a variety of industries in the Pacific Northwest. The acquisition will set Globe up for accelerated growth and help the Company better serve new and existing customers through innovation, training, parts, and service – something it has done successfully for over a century. Congratulations to Globe Machine and the 180one Search Team on a successful executive placement!
180one is pleased to announce our recent partnership with Three Bears and the resulting hire of their new Chief Financial Officer Three Bears Alaska (“Three Bears” or the “Company”) is the retailer of choice in Alaska for all essential categories, offering local communities a product selection that is not too big, not too small, but “just right” – at prices that provide value and with great service by locals, for locals. The Company was founded in 1980 by Alaskans, for Alaskans – the store footprints, inventory, and pricing are designed to meet the region’s unique needs. Three Bears offers its customers three types of shopping experiences: signature “Mini-Warehouses” (50k+ square feet with a unique, rationalized merchandise assortment model featuring grocery, outdoor/sporting products and full-service pharmacies), Supermarkets (focus is on grocery) and Convenience Stores (offer a broader merchandise selection and better pricing than a typical C-store and serve communities where population densities do not support a full mini-warehouse). Three Bears is owned by Westward Partners in partnership with the founding Alaskan family. Westward Partners is a Seattle-based private equity firm that partners with lower middle market businesses across a variety of industries based in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Westward partnered with and invested in Three Bears in early 2022 and has worked extensively with the Three Bears management team to successfully turbocharge growth, more than doubling the store footprint over the past four years. At this point in time, Three Bears has shifted gears from a growth mindset to a focus on margin improvement and optimization. As the new stores begin to reach run-rate and Three Bears fully digests and acclimates to its significantly larger scale and methods of operating, management, in partnership with Westward, has begun to employ a host of profitability improvement initiatives. The new CFO will have a significant role in managing, executing, and tracking these initiatives, as well as the continual development of new initiatives. It’s an exciting time to join Three Bears for an analytically minded senior finance professional who has a deep understanding of how to maximize gross and EBITDA margins (and absolute EBITDA dollars) in a retail/grocery environment. Congratulations to Three Bears and the 180one Search Team on a successful executive placement!
180one recently partnered with new client Galois Inc. to select Robert Wiltbank as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer . Founded in Portland in 1999, Galois applies revolutionary mathematical, computer science and engineering approaches to solve critical problems in software security, safety, privacy and performance. Prior to joining Galois, Wiltbank was a professor at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management , where he taught entrepreneurship courses and ran the Willamette Angel Fund . His research focuses on strategy-making under uncertainty and entrepreneurial expertise, particularly as they relate to growing new organizations. Wiltbank also co-authored The Catalyst: How You Can become an Extraordinary Growth Leader , selected by Business Week as one of the best books on innovation and design in 2009 . He recently received the prestigious Hans Severiens Award , honoring leaders who advance the angel investment industry and the role of angel investing in expanding entrepreneurship. As CEO, Wiltbank will focus on Galois’s strategic direction, team development and commercialization efforts and report directly to the Board of Directors. Read the full press release on the Galois blog here . Congratulations to Galois on this critical hire!
180one recently partnered with the University of Portland to select Paul Disbury as the school’s new Director of IT Infrastructure. Disbury comes to the University of Portland from Knowledge Universe's KC Distance Learning (KCDL) division, where he served as Director of Platform Management for Learning Technologies and managed all technology functional platforms across the organization. He also successfully implemented an enterprise VMWare framework for production, staging and test environments, as well as sponsored a data center consolidation project to streamline the organization’s data and application infrastructure. As Director of IT Infrastructure, Disbury will manage system administration, operations, network services, servers, storage, data centers and more for UP, a top-ranked Catholic university with nearly 4,000 students. Congratulations to UP on this successful hire!
180one recently partnered with Lewis & Clark College , a pre-eminent liberal arts college located in Portland, Ore., in appointing Trevor Dodson as Director of IT Infrastructure. He brings more than 10 years of IT management and operations experience to the role. Before joining the Lewis & Clark community, Dodson served as Director of IT Production Services & Global Operations for Vesta Corporation , where he was responsible for all datacenter infrastructure server, SAN, network and power distribution systems across 4 datacenters. He received a BS in Computer Information Systems from California Lutheran University in southern California. As Director of IT Infrastructure at Lewis & Clark, Dodson will oversee all department operations, including system administration, network services, servers, computer hardware, networks, strategic planning and team management. Congratulations to Lewis & Clark on this successful hire!
