Robert Vera was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from St. Sebastian's Country Day School where he played on the varsity football team as an eight grader. Robert earned a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from Boston College. He walked-on and made the Boston College football team and was a member of the Hall of Fame Bowl Championship Team. After college Robert worked as a staff assistant to a United States Senator where he managed military and veteran constituent services.

Robert transitioned from government into the financial service industry where he worked in various leadership positions for eighteen years. An avid athlete Robert took up racing Ironman Triathlon's and decided that he enjoyed this hobby more than his real job. In 2007 Robert felt an urgent need to become a "significant and positive milestone in the lives of others". To this end, he left his finance career behind to develop and launch the first-of-its-kind web based endurance training systems. In 2012 this system was incorporated into the President's Challenge, an initiative of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Robert's transformation system has delivered life changing results to thousands of individuals and has been deployed in corporate wellness programs nationwide.

A photographer and writer, he is the author of; A Warrior's Faith (Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins; March 2015), a memoir chronicling his friendship with Ryan Job a wounded Navy SEAL.

Robert serves as an adviser, board member and passionate advocate of several non-profit organizations including; The Tiffany Foundation, Wounded Wear, and Camp Patriot, a non-profit organization that offers outdoor therapy programs to wounded and disabled veterans of all generations.

Each year Robert leads small groups on a fifty mile adventure from Rim to Rim to Rim across the Grand Canyon. Robert has completed multiple Ironman Triathlons, climbed to the summit of Mt. Rainier twice and is currently training to cycle 600 miles from San Francisco to San Diego to raise funds for disabled athletes. Robert is married with two children and lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he works as a writer, author and speaker.

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