For the next 20 years, Dom was primarily a salesperson, calling on distributors, supermarket buyers, and others. He put together a network that resulted in Beaverton products, under the Beaver and Inglehoffer brands, being in almost all supermarkets in the U.S. He then learned about manufacturing, HACCP, human resources, accounting, insurance, and everything else needed to be CEO, under the tutelage of his father and long-time CEO Bill Small. Dom became CEO in 2011.