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Hernán Luis y Prado and his wife Rachel Luis y Prado started VetPowered, a San Diego manufacturing business, and a nonprofit called Workshops For Warriors, which educates veterans for careers in advanced manufacturing.
San Diego’s Hernán Luis y Prado, founder and CEO of VetPowered in Barrio Logan won Small Business Person of the Year for California.
Near the General Dynamics NASSCO and BAE Systems shipbuilding and repair sites is a place of transformation: Workshops for Warriors (WFW), where around 200 students annually take intensive four-month training programs in machining or welding.
A 15-year Navy combat veteran who built a Barrio Logan business from the ground up is now being honored statewide.
Prado and his wife sold everything they owned to start the advanced manufacturing business VetPowered as well as provide manufacturing training and jobs to veterans