Meet the team
Chris Dare is the chief consultant of Zero Nexxus and a retired U.S. Navy Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman (SOIDC) with over 20 years of active-duty service. His career included deployments with USMC Infantry, their Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) unit, Reconnaissance Battalions, Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC), and multiple U.S. Army Special Operations detachments, practicing medicine worldwide in austere humanitarian, combat, and special operations environments.
Chris also holds a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) and initially sought to reform veteran care from within the VA system. However, after personally navigating the VA claims process twice and witnessing veterans repeatedly denied service connection for clearly documented injuries, he recognized that greater impact could be made by advocating for veterans outside the institution.
When Rory presented with the proof of concept for Zero Nexxus, Chris immediately saw the need for a system that empowers veterans to understand and articulate service-connected disabilities while receiving consistent personal support during military-to-civilian transition.
Through Zero Nexxus, he has helped hundreds of service members—many from special operations and senior officer communities—navigate medical, career, and life transitions with clarity, structure, and timing.
Chris lives in North Carolina with his significant other, and together they have eight children. Since coming to faith in Christ in 2023, he began studying Scripture and will complete his Master of Divinity (MDiv) in the spring of 2026, with plans to pursue a PhD in Theology. In his free time, he enjoys researching theology as well as long-distance photography with his Nikon P1000.
Rory Farrell is the founder of Zero Nexxus and a retired U.S. Navy Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman (SOIDC) who spent 20 years on active duty, including the last decade with Force Reconnaissance.
His career took him around the world practicing medicine in some of the most demanding environments on the planet - conducting surgery in austere settings, treating blast and dive casualties, and conducting airborne and combat diving operations. It was a career defined by versatility, precision, and compassion.
Over the course of that career, Rory began to see a consistent and dangerous gap: highly capable service members were leaving the military without a clear, structured plan for what came next.
That realization became personal after a conversation with his former Recon Platoon Sergeant - a decorated combat veteran who was struggling with his own retirement. Rory went home that night and built a framework to help him. He quickly realized the same system could work for anyone.
That framework became the foundation for Zero Nexxus.
Since then, Rory has helped hundreds of service members - many from special operations and senior officer communities - navigate medical, career, and life transitions with structure, clarity, and timing.
He has invested thousands of hours and over six figures into understanding the systems, failures, and friction points of military transition, and now focuses on building scalable, tech-driven solutions to bring structure and predictability to a process that is usually unpredictable and reactive.
A military transition done correctly can permanently change the trajectory of a Veteran’s life.
Rory lives in Utah with his wife, Willemijn, and their two children, Atlas and Lorelei. When he’s not working, he’s usually in the mountains, exploring with his family, or shooting the Milky Way with his Sony A7RIII.