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Kirby Nagelhout Construction has named Jason Terry as the company’s third president.

Terry joined Kirby Nagelhout in 2012 as a project manager and opened the Pendleton office in 2014 as the region’s division manager. Terry and his wife moved back to Bend in 2019 and began to prepare for this transition.

Former president Jeff Deswert will operate as chairman of the board of directors. After starting his career working at Mt. Bachelor, Deswert began his commercial construction career in 1986 as one of the first employees of Kirby Nagelhout working out of founder Kirby Nagelhout’s house in Bend. He advanced within the company through the operations ranks before taking on the role as the company’s second president in 2010, following 25 years of leadership from Nagelhout.

During Deswert’s tenure as president, he expanded the company’s footprint by opening permanent regional offices in Portland and Pendleton and grew the operations into Washington. As a result, Kirby Nagelhout’s annual volume grew from $26 million to over $200 million in 13 years, the firm states in a press release.

With continued growth in mind, Kirby Nagelhout announced the promotions of additional team members to the role of vice president emphasizing operations, marketing and business development, and finance. Alec Hansen, Chris Prahl and Mike Lawrence are assuming those roles, respectively. Additionally, Mike Taylor, longtime vice president and business leader with Deswert, will maintain his role focusing on preconstruction and risk management.

This new leadership team will open the doors to Kirby Nagelhout’s newly built Bend office next year.