Candidate Don Dreibelbis

Nominee:
Don Dreibelbis (pronounced “Dry-BELL-bis”)

Lot #: 66

Phone: 6637-7058

E-Mail: fastlap@racingmail.com

Education: B.S. Industrial Engineering,
MBA Finance

Experience:

My professional experience started very
early, tracking satellites in secret stations around the world under
contract to the US Navy. After graduating with honors from engineering
school and working as an engineer for several years, I returned to graduate
school for a Master’s degree in business. After that graduation,
I worked for many years starting and helping grow a variety of successful
high technology computer-oriented businesses, all of which were venture
capital backed. I held positions of CFO in virtually all of those
companies, COO of three of the companies and CEO of two of those companies
(Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive
Officer). The firms ranged from five to 400 employees. As
CEO of the largest of those companies, I performed a multi-million dollar
turnaround. I then joined a major venture capital firm as a General
Partner, investing our $250 million of capital in high technology start-up
companies.

I have also previously served as President
of a residential Homeowners Association.

I therefore believe that I have the level
of understanding and organizational and business experience that would
be useful in the activities of the Steering Committee.

I believe I would be an asset to
the VEHOA Steering Committee and the Valle Escondido community because:

I am a full-time resident of Valle Escondido

and have lived in Boquete for four years. I bought my property
here six years ago in 2001 and have very much wanted to see the original
vision of this project fulfilled in reality. I am aware of the
variety of homeowners that we have – many with requirements that are
somewhat different, but each wanting to make this community and their
home something to be proud of. I am sensitive to some of the cultural
differences that exist among residents of a community such as Valle
Escondido and Boquete and would not want anyone to create any problem
by overlooking that issue.

As a Steering Committee Member,
I would work to….

If elected, my efforts on the Steering

Committee would focus on three central points:

First, I believe that regulations and

restrictions from any homeowners association should be kept to the minimum
level necessary. I would oppose any effort to make this association
an officious body. Second, because this particular association is the
first of its type in Panama, I would be very diligent in assuring that
every action taken was on a solid legal and procedural basis. Not doing
so could open the door to subsequent legal action from any disgruntled
person. That activity is both costly and unnecessary. Third, because
this development and its association are very new, we know for a fact
that many surprising challenges will come our way. We do not know
what they are, but we do know that they will come. I would support
all reasonable efforts to prepare for these uncertainties via gathering
of information and shepherding of finances so as to minimize disruption
to the residents.