Our Team

Before devoting his time and efforts to Rebuild Hope Dana was the founder of Breakaway Security, a senior security industry business analyst, and the publisher of Secure Access Central, a web portal that serves an international community of network security professionals. He has over 20 years of experience marketing complex business solutions, has led marketing teams at ROM, IBM, 3Com, Vita link, HP and several security ventures and served as the vice president of both sales and marketing. Dana has extensive knowledge of business strategy, product marketing, product planning and management, marketing communications, business development, partner management, sales education and sales support.

Working in Silicon Valley, Dana has successfully led launches of new businesses and dozens of new products and professional services. He has been an active member of Habitat for Humanity, building homes in San Mateo County one-day-a-week for five years and served as an marketing advisor to the local chapter's executive director. At Brown he earned a BS degree in engineering and at Stanford, an MBA.

Wes is currently Senior Vice President of The Brenner Group, one of the technology community's leading specialized finance and accounting services firms. Wes joined The Brenner Group® in 2008 and manages the firm's Finance and Accounting Group as well as corporate marketing. Wes brings more than 20 years of general management and operational experience in venture capital backed technology companies, having served as CEO or COO with five early stage companies.

Before joining The Brenner Group Wes served as President and COO of Nuvoiz, Inc. of Mountain View, CA where he managed finance, legal, marketing and U.S. sales operations. Prior to that, he was President and COO of cFares, Inc., a meta-search travel site where he drove the launch of the company including branding, site design, and customer acquisition. Before cFares, Wes held executive management positions at various Silicon Valley software, communications and data storage firms including Gyration, Inc., Global Village Communications, Calera and Xidex Dysan Corporation. He began his career at IBM. Wes holds a B.A. degree from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Lisa is the President & CEO of Avenidas, a Palo Alto-based, not-for-profit senior services agency. Previously she had twenty years of commercial banking experience culminating as Senior Vice President and Manager, Regional Commercial Banking, Wells Fargo Bank, Palo Alto. She has contributed to the success of numerous not-for-profit agencies, and has served on the boards of Samaritan House which provides basic services to low-income residents in San Mateo County, the Menlo-Atherton Educational Foundation and the Women's Recovery Association. Lisa brings extensive experience building, managing and marketing non-profits including extensive fund-raising activities. She is currently on the Board of The Private Bank of the Peninsula. Lisa has 20+ experience preparing and reviewing budgets and financial statements and currently serves on Peninsula Bank's loan review committee. She will help us create budgets, reports, review processes, etc. and guide us on our governance, organization, and human resource strategies.

Prior to his current assignment, LTC David Rabb was assigned to the Western Regional Medical Command at Fort Lewis, WA and attached to the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. As the Western Region Medical Command VA Military Liaison, LTC Rabb's goal was to facilitate the continuity of care and joint operations between Military Treatment Facilities, Warrior Transition Units, Army Community Based Hospital Community Organizations and VA Medical Centers/Polytrauma Rehabilitation Centers to ensure that Warriors in Transition's clinical and administrative needs were addressed. Strategically located at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center, LTC Rabb's area of operations extended through five states (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and California). From 1989 to 2007, he served in the 785th Medical Company, Combat Stress Control (the last four years in the unit as Commander). The primary mission of the 785th is to provide combat stress control services and treat soldiers with combat stress, grief, loss and battle fatigue. The unit returned from a one-year deployment in Iraq in February, 2005 and returned from its second deployment in May 2008. In his civilian job LTC Rabb is Executive Assistant for the Veteran Health Administration Under Secretary for Health's Diversity Advisory Board.

Prior to becoming the Executive Assistant for the Under Secretary for Health Diversity, LTC Rabb was the Supervisor for the Primary Care Social Work Section at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. His direct clinical practice and experience in Social Work included working with veterans and their families in a variety of settings: inpatient and outpatient medical units, intensive care, urgent care/emergency room, HIV/AIDS Clinic, drug dependency treatment program, mental health clinic, psychiatric day-hospital, and the VA Contract Nursing Home/Residential Care Program.

He was recently appointed a facility member in the VA National Center for PTSD Clinical Training Program. VA Menlo Park, and is a well sought out speaker in the areas of combat stress, post-traumatic stress, and readjustment issues facing returning veterans.

Veterans advocates (VAs) are essentially a case managers who qualify veterans who wish to join Rebuild Hope, help eligible ones get through our application process as quickly and smoothly as possible, and refer veterans to other appropriate resources within the veteran support community.

John builds general awareness of Rebuild Hope in Bend, Oregon and within the community of Navy veterans. Please contact us if you would like John to introduce Rebuild Hope to your organization.

John is a Naval Officer with 20 years of financial management experience. As an Officer in the Navy, he managed huge budgets and enjoyed achieving large savings and efficiency with the funds he was responsible for. But what really flamed his passion was helping his troops. As their leader, he saw his men dedicate their lives to our defense, but have little income to support their families. Feeling unqualified to help them, he enrolled in night classes and then earned earn a graduate degree in financial management. His Navy experience gave him the desire and conviction to work with families from all walks of life, to help them achieve financial peace of mind. He began his public financial planning business in 1994 with a simple mission - to help families build their wealth for the future and protect their present assets from the unforeseen.