Meet Dave Rabon

Senior Director

Dave Rabon is a seasoned sales professional and former Business Unit Executive with IBM. Presently, Dave is a Sales Associate and Investment Specialist with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group – Commercial Division. Dave is a former Pinnacle Award winner with the Florida Gulfcoast Commercial.

Dave was a former “Office Deal of the Year” winner with the same organization for helping to close a complex Office Building transaction of over $1.75M. Within the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Properties Group, Dave regularly achieved an award for finishing among the top of all Sales Professionals.

In his twenty-year corporate career at IBM, Dave served in a variety of management, technical marketing, and consulting positions developing consultative marketing, business management, and personnel management skills and experience. Working with large international clients he has led initiatives, which have encompassed business process reengineering, I/T Strategy development, Strategic Outsourcing, and e-Business development. Managing multiple business units he has consistently exceeded objectives for client satisfaction, revenue, expense and profitability.

Later in his career as a sales professional, Dave leveraged his engineering background and construction coursework to start a small residential construction company specializing in luxury custom homes. Through this experience, he developed significant knowledge of construction, estimating, construction management, and general contracting. For several years, Dave was the VP of Project Development for a small commercial construction company. His responsibilities included marketing, estimating, bidding, contract negotiations and project management for multi-million dollar commercial projects.

Dave attended the University of Kansas on an engineering scholarship and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has completed a Consultative Marketing professional certification curriculum, which included coursework at Harvard University.

Dave and his wife, Delah, reside in the Tampa Bay Area and have three daughters, Ashley, Riley and Ryan.