Rex Reed, Executive Director, Community Relations
Rex joined the YouthBridge Board of Directors in 2002 after retiring from the IBM Corporation. At IBM, Rex held many positions including ones in product development, technical marketing support, consulting, complex systems design and management for a wide variety of clients. His career at IBM gave him the opportunity to work and travel throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, affording him the chance to expand his insights across many cultures and business environments.
Rex is a graduate of Pacific University with a B. S. in Math and Physics and has attended professional education at UCLA and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is known as a problem solver who can understand business challenges and create unique solutions.
Norm Moenkhaus, Executive Director, Operations and Community Foundation
Since 1985, Norm has served on the YouthBridge Board of Directors, holding various positions including Vice President, Treasurer, Finance Committee Chairperson and Chairperson of Long-range Planning. His family involvement with the organization goes back almost 100 years to when his father and four aunts lived in the General Protestant Children’s Home, now known as YouthBridge Community Foundation. The family legacy continued when his father later served on the board for 20 years, and continues today as Norm's son, Jeff Moenkhaus, serves as Vice President and Secretary.
Norm holds a B.A. from the Washington University Olin School of Business. After graduation, he pursued a career in the shoe business, first as an executive for Brown Shoe Company and later as Owner and President of Promotional Marketing Services, a holding company for numerous footwear import firms. He has gained the reputation as an innovative and entrepreneurial thinker with the ability to create new solutions for organizational problems and issues that arise in the changing marketplace.