Thomas Rees -- Founding Manager, Business Development. After a long and successful career on Wall Street, Tom made a choice to completely switch gears and devote his life's energy to helping those in need. He founded a sober living company starting with several homes, one of which he personally managed for two years while living “on-site”. He has carried this experience and insight forward to Rees Networks, LLC, parent of SOBER LIVING HALFWAY HOUSE SEARCH -- enabling the conception and development of a much needed visual web search service for sober living homes. Tom's family and career details are below, and additional information and recommendations can be found at the premiere business site Linked In

Michael Stewart -- Sales Manager. Michael was instrumental in assisting Tom launch and manage his sober living company Roberts Rees Homes, LLC in Pasadena from 2007-2009. Michael has a background in sales consulting and has earned multiple sales achievement awards in the competitive world of auto sales.(Nissan and Toyota dealerships 2000-2006).

Steven H. Wilson -- Manager, Site Development and Copy. Steve is the Founding Director of the advertising firm “SW Creative”. He has played a critical role in our mission to present the site in a well-designed, professional, and user-friendly manner. (Advertising, 1985- present) Details about Steve and his firm

Wendy Nan Rees -- Founding Member. Wendy is a Pet Lifestyle Adviser and also an accomplished author with 6 books published by major houses. She has hosted TV programs for Disney and Animal Planet, and she currently has a top-rated radio show called Wendy's Animal Talk. She is a successful entrepreneur who immediately grasped the vision and recognized the value behind recovery house search engine and the long term goal of becoming a significant "go-to" resource for anyone interested in addiction and recovery. Learn more about Wendy on her site HERE.

Timothy Joshua Hardaway -- Founding Member. With his background in Mortgage Banking and Sales Josh helped shape the initial vision of SOBER LIVING SEARCH.(Washington Mutual Bank, Acct. Exec. 2003-2005, Countrywide Financial Corp, Vice President 2006-2008)

Andrew Wilson -- Founding Director, Real Estate Site Conversion Advisor.Andrew has been instrumental from the outset of Sober Living Search in developing the essential “House Details” and linked House Input pages. Andrew is a Senior Managing Partner at Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate based in Santa Monica, CA. LINK

Bob Forest -- Chemical Dependency Program Director, Aurora Las Encinas Hospital. Bob is recognized as a leading figure (and viewed as a genius by some) within the recovery community at large. He has been featured on VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" since season 1. Bob has been the Director of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital for 12 years and has proved to be an inspiration and an unwitting consultant for Tom Rees since 2006. LINK

Dr. Joseph Haraszti -- Known as "Dr. H." by his patients, he will be featured as a leading M.D. in the future “Ask the Doctor” Section 'about addiction and the brain' in the finished resource site. A renowned Psychiatrist famous for his advanced work in the field of addiction, he is often the resident guest on TV and radio shows seeking answers and commentary about celebrity addiction and likely associated mood disorders. Dr. Haraszti maintains one of his offices on "the front line" at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, CA -- a 100-year-old hospital known as one of the first to embrace the "Dual Diagnosis" theory behind addiction. Dr Haraszti graduated in the top of his class at Johns Hopkins University, and he specializes in addiction and associated mood disorder psychiatry with more awards and recognitions able to be listed here.

LD DESIGN -- Daniel Lind, CEO, based in Cologne, Germany, has helped bring all the components together to make SOBER LIVING HALFWAY HOUSE SEARCH the site it is today. Daniel and his firm have worked proactively with us to initiate some great ideas, and he continues to help maintain the site on an ongoing basis.

Planet Synergy -- Planet Synergy and their team led by Ron Noronha helped make Sober Living Halfway House a reality. CEO Raj Pai and President Anu Pai immediately recognized the good cause behind this site, as well as the positive impact the site would have in the field of recovery.

Suzanne Bolger, Wendy Nan Rees, Natalie Swaim, Michael Stewart: -- Senior Associates, Sales and Customer Service. We pledge to provide outstanding customer service each time a manager joins the database.

Tom began his Corporate career in 1983 as a media planner for the advertising firm Benton & Bowles. In 1986 he transitioned to Wall Street and became Director of Marketing for Spear Securities. Tom pioneered a daily financial radio show that led to founding Rees Financial Services, which merged with a public company in 1989. He was President of the firm with 122 employees and 22,000 clients in all 50 states. In 1991 he moved a core group of employees to Prudential Securities, where he earned the coveted license of a fully discretionary money manager. Tom did not not have a single customer complaint found against him in all his 18 years in the business (record available at NASD, now FINRA). After a 2nd stress-related heart operation in 2005, he retired from the firm (then Wachovia Securities) with a $100,000,000 book of business.

Dr. Thomas Rees (Tom's Father) has inspired Tom to carry this new venture to success. He is the sole surviving founder of AMREF, The African Medical Research Foundation. This began as a modest vision shared by two other doctors, simply calling themselves "The Flying Doctors". AMREF is now Africa's largest, non-government health organization, and in 2005 was the recipient of the first investment in Africa made by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. AMREF has also won the Conrad Hilton Humanitarian Award. Award pictures here.

Dr Rees's achievement has inspired Tom to strive to help people in his own way. A void needed to be filled in the recovery industry. Now, a team of individuals have come together to enable a geographical based pictorial web search engine for sober livings and halfway homes. Using it, people in need can have access to the largest database of such facilities in the world.

Tom's full career details and recommendations by his peers can be found on Linked In, the premiere business social site.

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