With over 40 years of experience growing service-based businesses, Dana Weaver brings the hard-earned knowledge to help your business reach its potential faster.
Dana Weaver is a former business owner, senior executive & C.P.A. residing in his hometown of Houston. Weaver graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree & earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas - Austin.
He began his professional career on the audit staff of PricewaterhouseCoopers. From 1977 until 2004, he & a partner co-owned The ABS Companies, where he served as president of the $150 million facility maintenance company, the leading privately-owned company of its kind in the United States. Under Weaver’s leadership, the company of more than 6,000 employees grew to serve customers in 13 states & 23 metropolitan markets.
Following the sale of ABS Companies in June, 2004, Weaver was brought in by a private equity group to serve as president of Symtx, Inc. of Austin, Texas, where he worked with the CEO to return the company to profitability & a successful liquidity event. Symtx served the outsourced test engineering market & employed 125 engineers (mechanical, electrical & software) to manufacture functional test equipment for the satellite communication & defense industries.
Weaver is currently the majority owner of Star Protection, a Houston Texas based security services firm. Weaver also works as a consultant & investor using his experience & knowledge to help other business owners transform & grow their businesses. He is very active in BSCAI, where he is a regular speaker at their annual trade show & convention. Mr. Weaver is also an active investor, primarily focused on early stage private equity & real estate investment opportunities.
Weaver has served on a number of Boards of Directors including 4-M, St. Louis, MO; Olympus Building Services, Philadelphia, PA; Harvard Maintenance, New York, NY; GMI Building Services, San Diego, CA; McLemore Building Maintenance, Inc., Houston, TX; and the Building Service Contractors Association International (BSCAI), Chicago, IL. Weaver is the recipient of the Walter L. Cook Award for Distinguished Service & has been recognized with a Presidential Citation for work on M & A Seminars and Programs for BSCAI.
Active in community service, Weaver was a founder of Episcopal High School, Houston & served as a Board member for River Oaks Baptist School. He is a founder & past Board member of the Camp for All Foundation. Additionally, he served as treasurer for the River Oaks Breakfast Club & coached baseball for the West University Little League. Married to Carol Weaver, he is the father of three grown children.
About Dana Weaver
What Clients & Colleagues Are Saying
"Your enthusiasm is contagious and your passion evident. Your personal experience and valuable insights into what we could be doing better has helped us achieve a level of success we had only dreamed about."
Chris Stathakis, CEO Stathakis
I’m grateful for the direction & personal coaching you have given us. You have been a true mentor and I’m soaking up every suggestion. I think I can speak for all of us that we found your training informative, inspiring and motivating. Your sales techniques (in particular, being politely persistent, passionate and great listeners) are things we can definitely adopt and replicate to help us become a solid “sales oriented organization” going forward. We very much look forward to your next training session; we are hungry, teachable and willing to learn from “the best in the business!”
Marylin Oldaker,
V.P. Midwest Maintenance, Inc
Excellent clear communicator and extremely knowledgeable of the topic at hand. An excellent presentation of human capital management practices. Well prepared and to the point, Mr. Weaver’s information was invaluable, please bring him back.
BSCAI Speaker Conference Comments
"I purchased a small, family-owned contracting business in a second-tier market in Wisconsin. I became an overnight CEO and needed guidance on how to best run and scale the business out of the single market we served. I found Dana and used him as a mentor and coach. He worked with me to create a strategic growth plan, but even more important than that, a people plan. Dana has been where I was and helped me uncovered growth opportunities without reinventing the wheel. Dana had a number of tools and templates and processes that I could apply to my business overnight. I now have clients in multiple first and second-tier markets, including some fortune 500 customers, in four different states and our revenue has jumped from $5 million to over $20 million."
Scott Stevenson, CEO, President, Owner KleenMark