Doug Wesson is the Vice President of Juneau Mt. Rescue, He has been a member of JMR since 1992 as well as a member of Capital City Fire/Rescue Rope Rescue and Swiftwater Rescue Team for 10 years. He is a retired school psychologist and works summers as a glacier guide with Northstar Trekking in Juneau. Doug also serves on the board of directors of the Southeast Alaska Critical Incident Stress Management Team and Eaglecrest Ski Area. He is former president of the Alaska School Psychologist Association.

He has appeared in Baywatch, White Thunder in Glacier Bay, NBC Dateline survivor, and on the Martha Stewart show when she visited the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau and a number of cable TV shows about trekking on the glaciers.

In 1999 Doug received the Meritorious Service Award from the Untied States Coast Guard as a result of a rescue of 10 individuals stranded on the Juneau Icefield overnight after 3 helicopters crashed in one day. Doug is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Alaska Southeast for mountain rescue courses. Doug keeps involved in a number of public education programs for preventative search and rescue with different tourist organizations in Juneau, Alaska

Growing up in the flat topography of the Midwest, John's early training for the mountains is waiting for the late school buses in blizzards and minus 40 degree wind chills. John began his SAR activities in the winter of 1995 when he joined the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team under the auspice of the Dartmouth Medical School serving the SAR needs of Vermont and New Hampshire. He achieved the level of NREMT/WEMT and elected as the Team Leader for 1998-1999. In 1999 he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and joined the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit (BAMRU).

John has served BAMRU in several capacities including Unit Leader for three terms and has been a Board of Director member and Operations Leader since 2002. He currently holds the Executive Officer role for BAMRU. John has also been the California Region Vice Chairman since 2007. In addition to BAMRU and CRMRA, he is actively involved with the Bay Area Search and Rescue Council and affiliated with the San Francisco Paramedic Association. He is active in leading and teaching various topics in SAR with particular emphasis on technical rope rescue. He is an active mountaineer with experience in the White and Green Mountains of the New England States, Sierra Nevada of California, and Northern Cascades of the Pacific Northwest.

John also enjoys tramping off the beaten paths domestically and internationally whether through the alleyways of urban jungles or scree fields somewhere 'out there'. Professionally he holds a doctorate in electrical engineering with emphasis on biomedical engineering. His efforts include the development of advanced technologies for trauma medicine. One such example is the creation of a non-invasive pneumothorax detector for in-field assessments based upon the ultrawideband electromagnetic technology.

Dave Clarke 
Vice President 

Dave has volunteered with Portland Mountain Rescue since 2000. In that time he has served on the Board of Directors and as President. He led the planning team for the 2009 MRA 50th anniversary conference at Timberline Lodge. In addition he is a rescue level member, mission team leader, and frequently instructs classes in rigging, mechanical advantage, high lines, belay and search. He has served as the Equipment and Technology Committee Chair for the MRA and as an out of region re-accreditation evaluator. Dave is employed by the Gresham, Oregon (suburb of Portland) Fire Department as a Fire Captain/EMT. In that role he is in charge of a fire station, its personnel and the Department's Technical Rescue Team.

When he's not working or volunteering Dave enjoys spending time with Laurie, his wife of 30 years and his two children, Annie and Dale, backcountry skiing, mountaineering, bicycling and gardening.

Jim Frank's introduction to search & rescue began as a climbing and rappelling coach for the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's SAR Team in 1970 while an Aeronautical Engineering student. Jim joined the Los Padres Search & Rescue Team in 1976. He served over 25 years on the team's board of directors and a two-year then later a six-year term as President. During the latter term he helped guide the merger of the county teams into Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue.

Jim is an Incident Commander, EMT-1, OEC, and has held qualifications in SRT and WEMT. He is also an Auxiliary Member of the Mt. Pinos Nordic Ski Patrol and an Apprentice member of the California Rescue Dog Association. In 2005, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department presented Jim with their Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the department's search & rescue program.

Jim is the founder and chairman of the board of CMC Rescue, Inc. where for over 30 years he has been involved with product design, training, and technical writing as well as the usual duties of a small business owner. He serves the rescue community as a member of the ASTM F-32 Committee on Search & Rescue, ANSI-ASSE Z359 Committee on Fall Protection, NFPA 1670 on Technical Rescue Operations and NFPA 1983 on Life Safety Rope & Equipment.

Bryan Enberg
Member-at-Large 

Bryan has been a member of New Jersey Search and Rescue for sixteen years and currently holds the rank of Chief. Before getting into SAR, he was a firefighter for nine years with the Waldwick Volunteer Fire Department. Being the black sheep of the family he chose not to pursue a paid career in emergency services and went into broadcast television and is currently employed with Definition 6, a marketing firm based in New York City.

Bryan currently serves as the Chair of the Appalachian Region, as well as the MRA’s Marketing Committee and manages the MRA’s social media efforts. He also serves as a member of the Education Committee and has been coordinating MRA's efforts in launching our first online educational offering. Bryan also chairs the Education Committee for the Search and Rescue Council of New Jersey and serve as the State Agency Liaison for the SARCNJ, leading its efforts within the state to establish a Search and Rescue Resource Credentialing system in partnership with the New Jersey State Police OEM.

Bryan resides in Sparta, New Jersey with his wife, Jennifer, a Lieutenant and Search Manager with NJSAR, and son (and future SAR member) Joshua.