PASHA DISTRIBUTION SERVICES - Key Persons
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- Managing Director, European Markets
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- Operations Director, Auto Trucking
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President, Transportation and Pasha Hawaii
Mr. Patton, in addition to his role as Senior Vice President of The Pasha Group, also maintains overall managerial responsibility for Pasha Hawaii and is a key member of the team that formulated the planning and construction of the M/V Jean Anne and the M/V Marjorie C. Mr. Patton joined Pasha in 1985 and has been heavily involved with many of the company's innovative projects. Mr. Patton directs the business planning activities for the company, and holds an integral role in formulating the company's strategic planning and acquisition activities. He also has oversight for the company's Transportation Services division. Mr. Patton is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and received a Master's in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President
- General Manager, West Coast Operations
- Senior Vice President, Pasha Hawaii
Mr. Hamlin joined the company in 2015 as General Manager, West Coast Operations, bringing extensive experience in both domestic and international terminal/liner management. Prior to joining Pasha, Chris served five years with Horizon Lines as a Terminal Operations Manager, Corporate Maintenance Manager, and most recently Director of Logistics for the Hawaii trade lane. Before joining Horizon Lines, Mr. Hamlin held a number of leadership positions with APM Terminals in Oakland, Los Angeles, and the Port of Salalah in Oman. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Economics from St. Mary's College of California.
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- Vice President
- Vice President, Human Performance Operations
Ms. Irvine has been with The Pasha Group since 1986. Prior to joining the company she was affiliated with AFI Worldwide Forwarders, which was subsequently purchased by Pasha in 1980. As the organization has grown substantially during her tenure, her leadership and oversight of the Human Resources department has proven to be a key component to the successful integration of Pasha's planned acquisitions and expansion strategy. Today Ms. Irvine's responsibilities include employee development, overall development planning and execution of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and policies (including Human Resources and Payroll service models) and employer branding. In addition she oversees all benefit programs, compensation and total rewards management and employee Health & Welfare programs.
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- Member of the National Association of Corporate Directors
- President & CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities
Chris Connor is the President & CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities. He is the former Global President & Chief Executive Officer of Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS (WWL), one of the world's largest ocean car carriers, and vehicle logistics groups. As CEO, Mr. Connor guided the company through a period of significant transformation in its core ocean transport business, while driving rapid growth in the vehicle logistics arena. His reputation as an industry leader and globally recognized expert in deep-sea ocean transport and land-based logistics is based on an authentic leadership approach and his ability to transform strategy into profit-generating results.
Mr. Connor, who has over 38 years of experience in international shipping and logistics, began his career at United States Lines in 1981, followed by Crowley Maritime in 1987, prior to joining Wallenius Lines in 1994. In addition to roles in the USA, Chris' career path brought him to Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and finally to Norway as CEO of WWL. Since 2017, Mr. Connor has been a Board Member at The Pasha Group, and served on the Executive Committee and Board of the American Maritime Partnership from 2018-2019.
Mr. Connor is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where he earned a Board Governance Fellowship designation in March 2017. He has served as a keynote speaker and panelist for several national summits including Automotive Supply Chain Congress and The Economist World Ocean Summit. In 2013, Automotive Supply Chain Magazine named Mr. Connor Logistician of the Year. Mr. Connor is a graduate of Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
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- Partner
- Member of the Hawaii State Bar Association
Christopher T. Kobayashi is a partner with Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda, a law firm based in Honolulu that specializes in the areas of corporate, construction and commercial law. Mr. Kobayashi has counseled owners, developers, general contractors and design professionals in construction matters and tenants with respect to commercial leasing concerns. In addition, Mr. Kobayashi has worked on numerous commercial matters, involving general corporate and business matters, business sales and acquisitions, and has represented clients, both individuals and events, in the sports industry.
Mr. Kobayashi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Santa Clara University, and his Juris Doctor degree from The Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Kobayashi served as a foreign associate with the Hashidate Law Office in Tokyo, Japan, until joining Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda in April 1993.
Mr. Kobayashi is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He also serves as a director of the East-West Center Foundation, as well as a director of Ahahui Koa Anuenue.
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- Chief Information Officer
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President and CIO, IT Services
As Senior Vice President and CIO, IT Services, David Beckerman is responsible for managing the business application and technical services teams within The Pasha Group. Mr. Beckerman joined The Pasha Group in 2004 to lead the design and implementation of The Pasha Group's proprietary terminal system, On-Track Automotive (OTA). OTA was launched in 2005 at the company's flagship marine terminal in San Diego, CA and is currently deployed in the company's facilities in Grays Harbor, WA, Baltimore, MD and on all major Hawaiian island ports. Mr. Beckerman has over 25 years experience in the transportation and logistics field. Starting in the operating department of a Class 1 railroad, he has worked for U.S. flag steamship lines and intermodal service providers. In addition, he has been involved in many successful system deployments while working for software companies serving the transportation and logistics industry. Mr. Beckerman holds an M.S. in Information Systems from Golden Gate University and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science from San Francisco State University.
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- Co - Founder
- Managing Partner
Doug Dossey is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Tensile Capital Management. He leads the firm's private equity investment activities, and focuses on sourcing, researching and executing both public and private investments.
Prior to Tensile, Doug was a Managing Partner and Co-Portfolio Manager at Blum Capital and, from 1998 to 2009, was a Managing Director and Co-Owner of FdG Associates, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York City. Prior to FdG, Doug was an investment banking Analyst and Associate with Merrill Lynch.
Doug has served on 22 corporate Boards of Directors, including 11 as Chairman.
Doug received a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy with High Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995, and passed the Certified Public Accountant Examination in 1995.
Doug resides in Tiburon, CA, along with his wife and two sons.
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Pasha Hawaii
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- Managing Director at Equity Group Investments
Evan Harwood is a Managing Director at Equity Group Investments (EGI), the private investment firm founded by Sam Zell. Based in Chicago, EGI invests opportunistically across industries and geographies and throughout the capital structure. EGI provides flexible capital and employs an engaged ownership approach to maximize the potential of its investments.
Harwood sources and evaluates credit and equity investment opportunities in the public and private sectors, negotiates and structures transactions, and partners with portfolio company operators to drive value. He is also responsible for market facing and trading activities at EGI. In addition to Pasha, Harwood serves on the boards of several EGI portfolio companies, including: Able Freight Services, a provider of airfreight forwarding services focused on time-sensitive perishable goods; Lanter Delivery Systems, an asset-light dedicated delivery service provider; RailUSA, a short line and regional railroad platform; and Ventana Exploration and Production, an oil and gas acquisition and development company. Previously, he led EGI's investments in Waste Industries, a vertically integrated, solid waste management company, and Penn Virginia, an oil and gas exploration, development, and production company.
Prior to joining EGI in 2010, Evan served as an Associate at Trust Company of the West, where he focused on special situation investing, primarily in distressed debt and restructurings. Earlier, he was an investment banking analyst in the Leveraged Finance group at Citigroup where he was involved in a variety of debt capital-raising transactions, including leveraged buyouts, corporate-to-corporate acquisitions and other debt financing activities. He received a BBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.
General Bramlett retired from the US Army on October 31, 1998. He concluded his military career as the Commanding General of US Army Forces Command, a position he held from July 1996 to August 1998. As commander of the Army's largest organization, he was responsible for training and deploying forces worldwide in support of theater Combatant Commanders. Key Army assignments included Division Commander of the 6th Infantry Division (Light) in Alaska, 1992-94, and Assistant Division Commander with the 25th Infantry Division (Light) in Hawaii, 1987-89.
Additionally, General Bramlett served as the Commandant of Cadets at West Point, 1989-92. He earlier commanded brigades in the 82d Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Joint assignments include Deputy Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Command, September 1994 to June 1996, and Deputy J5 (Plans, Policy, and Programs), US Central Command, 1986-87.
A 1964 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, General Bramlett also holds a Master of Arts degree in English from Duke University. He has been a Senior Mentor with the Army's Joint Force Land Component Commander's Course and an occasional participant in seminars on security issues and international affairs. He has also been an adjunct instructor with Hawaii Pacific University in the graduate school (courses in History and Literature). He currently works as a volunteer on the management boards of several community service organizations on Oahu.
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- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Executive Management Team
- President
George W. Pasha, IV is the President & CEO of The Pasha Group, a family-owned, third-generation diversified global logistics and transportation company. He is responsible for worldwide operations of The Pasha Group's five operating divisions: Automotive, Maritime, Relocation, Transportation, and Pasha Hawaii, one of the nation's leading domestic ocean shipping companies serving Hawaii from the continental United States.
Mr. Pasha has led The Pasha Group as President & CEO since 2008, following previous roles as President & Chief Operating Officer in 1999 and President of Transportation in 1993. Mr. Pasha first joined the enterprise in 1985, following his tenure in commercial banking, prior to being promoted to Vice President, Transportation of The Pasha Group in 1988.
Mr. Pasha is a graduate of Santa Clara University, where he received a B.S. in Economics. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Pacific Maritime Association. He previously served on the Advisory Board of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and is past Chairman of the Household Goods Forwarders Association of America, Inc., now known as IAM.
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- General Manager, U.S. Port Operations
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Executive Management Team
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- Managing Director in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services Practice at AlixPartners
John Boken is a Managing Director in the Turnaround and Restructuring Services practice at AlixPartners, an international consultancy firm. John has over 30 years of corporate turnaround and restructuring experience and specializes in complex, high profile, national and cross-border cases. He has often been appointed to senior management positions in client engagements, including serving as CEO, COO, CFO, and Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO), helping companies address and resolve financial and operational distress. John's experience spans a variety of industries, including energy, logistics, entertainment, homebuilding, industrial construction, manufacturing, retail, health care, and agriculture.
John started his professional career at Arthur Andersen, ultimately migrating to being a principal and co-owner of a premier boutique restructuring advisory firm, Zolfo Cooper. In late 2018, he and his partners merged their firm with AlixPartners, where he now serves in both a leadership capacity and continues as a senior client restructuring advisory practitioner. Recently, John served as Deputy CRO for Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) in its landmark Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in California.
John has been recognized within the restructuring industry for his successful leadership of the turnarounds and reorganizations of NRG Energy (2004), Flying J (2011), and PG&E (2020).
John holds a B.S. in finance from Santa Clara University. He and his wife, Susie, reside in South Pasadena, California and are the parents of three children - Brendan, Connell, and Eryn.
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- Principal of American Maritime Group LLC
John Bowe is the Principal of American Maritime Group LLC, an advisory firm serving public and private organizations and investors (including private equity firms) with interests in intermodal freight transportation and supply chain. Mr. Bowe has over 35 years of experience in international ocean shipping, including 26 with American President Lines, Inc. (APL). He served as President - Americas for APL from 2004 to 2010 where his responsibilities included APL's ocean transportation, logistics, and terminal operations in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Previous assignments with APL included general management positions in the Middle East and Hong Kong, and network management responsibility for Asia, based in Singapore.
Mr. Bowe is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Maritime Association, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the intermodal chassis leasing company Direct ChassisLink Inc. He previously served on the Executive Committee of the National Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C., and currently is a member of the Business Advisory Council at the Northwestern University Transportation Center. Mr. Bowe received a B.A. degree in Mathematics from Hamilton College in New York.
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Pasha Automotive Services
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- Managing Partner With Irongate
Lance Wilhelm is Managing Partner with Irongate, a full-service California-based real estate development firm whose properties in Hawaii include Trump International Hotel & Tower at Waikiki Beach and the Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki Beach. In addition to building Irongate's brand in Hawaii and managing the company's on-going interests in their resort properties, Mr. Wilhelm is responsible for identifying new business opportunities throughout Hawaii.
With more than 28 years of experience in construction management and business development, Mr. Wilhelm is a native Hawaii by birth. His leadership skills are indicative of the Hawaiian culture in which he was raised; one bound by stewardship and responsibility to the ‘aina (our land) and to one another.
Prior to joining Irongate, Mr. Wilhelm served as Senior Vice President, Hawai'i Regional Manager with Kiewit Infrastructure West Company, overseeing all of Kiewit's work in Hawaii.
Mr. Wilhelm's commitment to the well being of Hawaii's communities are evident in the number of organizations he currently supports as a board member and trustee including Kamehameha Schools (Board of Trustees Member & Chair); YMCA of Honolulu (Board of Trustees Member, Chair & Chief Volunteer Officer); Multi-Employer Funds (Board of Trustee Member & Chair); Association of General Contractors of America (National AGC Board of Governors); General Contractors Association of Hawaii (Director); General Contractors Labor Association (Vice President and Director); Enterprise Honolulu (Board Member); HAIOP Hawaii (Member); Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce (Member); Retail Merchants of Hawaii (Member); Waikiki Improvement Association (Board Member); Hawaii Pacific University (Board Member); Island Pacific Academy (Board Member); Hawaii Carpenters Trust Funds (Management Trustee); and Operating Engineers Trust Funds (Management Trustee).
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- Terminal Manager / Linehaul Coordinator
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- Lead Linehaul Coordinator
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Pasha Stevedoring & Terminals L.P
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- General Counsel
- Member of the Executive Management Team
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- Vice President, OHW & Project Logistics
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Transportation & Support Services
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- Member of the Executive Management Team
- Senior Vice President and Executive Counsel
Ms. Sherburne Manning is Senior Vice President and Executive Counsel of The Pasha Group. She has worked for The Pasha Group since 1987, joining the company in 2002 as General Counsel and transitioning to Executive Counsel in 2021. She serves as a member of the Executive Management Team and as Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining The Pasha Group, Ms. Sherburne Manning was a founding partner of a maritime law firm focusing on maritime contracts and arbitration and in commercial business both from a transactional and litigation standpoint. Ms. Sherburne Manning received an undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and her Juris Doctorate from the University of California Hastings College of Law.
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- Senior Vice President, Transportation
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- Manager, OHW & Project Logistics
William "Buzzy" Hong's commitment to public service in Hawaii started at a young age and has continued throughout his professional and post-retirement career. He served with the U.S. Coast Guard, prior to his 26-year career with the Honolulu Police Department (HPD). While at HPD, Mr. Hong served on the "Metro Squad," a predecessor to the SWAT Team. He was also one of the original members of the K-9 unit and a founding member of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO). He eventually became Chief Polygraph Operator for the department and attained the rank of Captain upon his retirement.
After retiring from HPD, Mr. Hong worked with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office on special assignment as the head of the Organized Crime Strike Force and White Collar Crime Investigation Unit.
In 1990, he was named Executive Director of the Building and Construction Trade Council AFL-CIO. After 20 years of service to 16 affiliate trade unions and their 41,000 members, Mr. Hong retired in that capacity in 2010. While there, his accomplishments included creating numerous work opportunities on military bases and through federal projects, formulating prosperous partnerships with various major developers in the State of Hawaii, and helping with the approval of the rail system.
Mr. Hong currently sits on several non-profit boards and commissions throughout the State of Hawaii. He was Chair of the first Honolulu Fire Commission and a member of the selection committee for the HPD Chief of Police. A graduate of Roosevelt High School, Mr. Hong is the recipient of Roosevelt High School's most outstanding alumnus award.