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M E N W H O R O C KANDREW E. NELSONAndy Nelson is president of Willis Allen Real Estate, the largest independently owned and operated realestate company in Southern California. He started his real estate career at Willis Allen in 1977, was namedits president in 1980 and purchased all remaining shares in the company in 1995 from Willis Allen Sr., thefirm’s founder. Willis Allen dates its beginning to 1914 when it started matching buyers and sellers in LaJolla. Today, the firm includes 200 agents boasting an average of 16 years of experience, an industry bestfor average sales volume per agent and the highest number of sales per agent than ay other company in SanDiego. Willis Allen has offices in La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Coronado, Downtown, Point Loma,Fallbrook and Carmel Valley/Santaluz.BILL BODRYBill Bodry is founder and director of the Challenge Center, an advanced rehabilitation facility. The ChallengeCenter provides affordable physical therapy and rehabilitation for people with physical disabilities,ranging from arthritis to paralysis. The La Mesa-based organization opened in El Cajon in 1988 but Bodrymoved it to La Mesa in 1999. Bodry has faced his own challenges. A 1973 operation which was suppose tostraighten Bodry’s crooked spine went wrong and left him a paraplegic. Bodry founded the Challenge Centershortly after moving to San Diego in order to help people like him who could have affordable access toequipment, facilities and therapists for as long as they needed them. For those with spinal cord injury andother paralysis, clients can use Computerized Functional Electronic Stimulation to ride a stationary bikewith his or her own muscles.STEPHEN F. FLAIMStephen Flaim is chairman of the board of Tech Coast Angels, the largest organized angel investinggroup in the world whose members invest in Southern California companies with the potential to scaleinto market and financial leadership. Flaim is founder and president of Flaim Partners Consulting, a fellowof the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American Collegeof Clinical Pharmacology. He holds a doctorate in human physiology and pharmacology from UC Davis.He is a member of the board of Pivotal Biosciences Inc., and AnaBios Corp. and co-founder and CEOof CardioCreate Inc. and OncoFluor Inc. CardioCreate’s genetically-engineered stem cells replace damagedheart tissue with healthy, functional heart tissues.HERB JOHNSONHerb Johnson is president and CEO of the San Diego Rescue Mission, an organization that literally, dayby-day,makes a difference in life and death for many in San Diego. The Mission was founded in 1955 andbelieves in the inherent worth of every homeless man, woman and child. Its mission is to spread the goodnews of salvation through Christ by serving the needs of the poor, addicted, abused and homeless. Johnsonholds a MBA from the Harvard Business School, had a dynamic career with Summit Concept, a unique SupplyChain and Executive Partnership Firm based in San Diego and served as executive vice president for SupplyChain Management of Premier Inc., and as president of Premier Purchasing Partners L.P., a $14 billionGroup Purchasing Organization. Johnson and his wife, Carol, have five children and 12 grandchildren andboth spend significant time serving on several boards throughout San Diego County.1 2S A N D I E G O M E T R O . C O M | J U LY 2 0 1 2 | 2 7 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y 1 9 8 5 - 2 0 1 2
M E N W H O R O C KDARREN SOLOMONDarren Solomon is CEO of Kid Ventures, a boutique-style indoor family play center. The visition of KedVentures is to lead the way in children’s “edutainment.” Kid Ventures offers high quality, safe, clean andstimulating environment for children and parents. Complete with a village of themed sidewalk stores, apirate ship, castle, rock climbing wall and a wireless parents’ coffee shop/café, Kid Ventures has become thego-to place for creative play, parties and all around quality family time. By utlizimg his business as a philanthropicplatform, Solomon has raised an enormous amount of awareness and funds for charitable organizationssuch as Rady Children’s Hospital, National Arthritis Foundation, the Rivers of HopeFoundation and Promises2Kids.MICHAEL HURSTMichael Hurst is founder, CEO and president of ChloroFill LLC, a San Diego clean technology companythat develops, markets and sells environmentally responsible, formaldehyde-free building materialsfor the interior design, building and furniture industries. ChloroFill’s products are made from recycledsorghum stalks, one of the most rapidly renewable resources on the planet. By reclaiming the stalks, whichare often treated as agricultural waste, Hurst is helping farmers significantly increase the value of theircrops as well as eliminating a source of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. A veteran of the lifescience industry, Hurst spent his career prior to founding ChloroFill in engineering and management atFortune 500 and leading technology companies, including Beckman Instruments and Illumina Inc. Sincefounding CholoroFill he has successfully fostered collaborative relationships with leading American andChinese companies.DAVID LOSEKEDavid Loseke is relationship managerand senior commercial lenderwith First Republic Bank. FirstRepublic provides lending facilitiesto medium size companieswith financial needs up to $25million. He is a member of theboard of the San Diego PoliceFoundation, which supports theSan Diego Police Department, includingthe foundation’s SafetyNetProgram that has helpedprotect San Diego kids from onlinehazards and sexual predators.Loseke developed the Friends ofthe Badge concept and itsfundraising campaign. He is agraduate of San Diego State Universityand holds an MBA fromthe Anderson School of Managementat UCLA.2 7 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y 1 9 8 5 - 2 0 1 2 | J U LY 2 0 1 2 | S A N D I E G O M E T R O . C O M1 3
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