This San Diego entrepreneur changed his career path to forge new ones for U.S. veterans
Hernán Luis y Prado, a U.S. Naval officer, was on track to becoming a doctor, but he gave up that dream to serve his fellow veterans in a different way.
More than a decade ago, Hernán and his wife Rachel Luis y Prado sold everything they owned to start VetPowered, a local manufacturing business, and a nonprofit called Workshops For Warriors, which educates veterans for careers in advanced manufacturing.Hernán had always felt like he needed to do something more and this was it — creating a constructive path for veterans to build a career. An encounter with an injured veteran who he’d served with in Iraq was a turning point.
VetPowered was started to sustain Workshops for Warriors, as banks wouldn’t hand out loans to startup charities, Hernán said. Today it stands out as a profitable business with 18 employees, half of whom are veterans and the other half civilians. But to get there, they had to work through challenges like getting over the hump of 2017. It was the hardest year for them, said Rachel, who serves as the chief financial officer at VetPowered.
This was another pivotal moment for Hernán because it shifted how they’d run VetPowered to thrive as a business and not just as something that helped Workshops survive.San Diego, California - May 10: Angel Aguilar, a machinist operator at VetPowered, programs a machine on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 in San Diego, California. VetPowered is a manufacturing business located in Barrio Logan.
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