Mr. Willman is a Co-Founder of 316 Investments and has served as its CEO from it’s inception. He has a BA with honors in Business Administration and Economics from Hanover College and an MBA in Marketing and Management from Indiana University. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Mr. Willman spent several years in corporate management positions with large and mid-sized companies, including Eli Lilly and Dow Chemical, having both domestic and international responsibilities. His primary areas of focus in those roles were finance, marketing, business development and strategy. In the spring of 1998, along with Mr. Salsbery, he formed 316 Investments to make their first investments in a Microsoft advanced technology center near Chicago and as a franchisee in an 8 store restaurant concept out of Denver, Colorado called Z-TECA Mexican Grill which would later change it’s name to Qdoba Mexican Grill.

Mr. Willman is a Trustee of Hanover College, a Board Member and Entrepreneur in Residence of the Hanover College Business Scholars Program and also has sat on the Board of Directors of the Carmel Dads’ Club youth sports organization and various 316 portfolio companies. He also served as head operations adviser to Apollo Global Management in their acquisition of QDoba Mexican Eats from Jack in the Box, and served as a member of the “Office of the Chairman” on behalf of the Lion Fund after their acquisition of Steak N’ Shake. He lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife Karen and their 3 boys, Adam, Beau and Drew.