[BUSINESS WIRE] Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC, Pasadena, a business accelerator for emerging health-care and medical technology companies, has announced the appointment of prominent financial executive, D. Tad Lowrey, and of world-renowned economic expert, Brian Wesbury, to its newly formed board of managers.

Founded in 2007 to help health-care and medical technology clients speed their time to value, the company has tapped Lowrey and Wesbury to offer clients high-level insight and access to key relationships in their respective areas.

Lowrey, Wesbury

"We are delighted to have the support and partnership of Tad and Brian, two pre-eminent professionals in their fields," said John G. Nackel, Ph.D., founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Three-Sixty Advisory Group. "These prominent appointments underscore the unique value we provide to emerging companies, from day one of every engagement. With Three-Sixty, we have immediate access to proven business and financial experts who can help accelerate growth, efficiency and capital."

With more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry, Lowrey currently serves as executive vice president of WEDBUSH Inc., a financial services and investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Previously, he was chairman, president and CEO of Jackson Federal Bank, and chairman and CEO of CenFed Bank. He is a former chair of the Western League of Savings, as well as a former director of the California Bankers Association and America’s Community Bankers. He served as vice president of the Thrift Institutions Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank and also as a member of the Savings Association Insurance Fund Advisory Committee to the FDIC. Lowrey is presently an elected director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.

Currently chief economist at First Trust Advisors L.P., a financial services firm based in Lisle, Ill., Wesbury has been ranked by the The Wall Street Journal as the nation’s top U.S. economic forecaster and by USA Today as one of the nation’s top 10 forecasters. He frequently writes for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, is the economics editor of The American Spectator and became a CNBC contributor last year. He has served as chief economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

About Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC

Founded in 2007, Three-Sixty Advisory Group is a business accelerator that helps emerging health-care and medical technology companies speed their time to value. Not an incubator, the company works with businesses that have an existing product or service to accelerate growth, efficiency and capital. Three-Sixty offers clients investment opportunity assessment, access to financing and a host of business acceleration services that include hands-on support in executive-level management as well as nearly every functional business area. For more information, visit www.360ag.com.