Darra Wray

MBA, CSA

Founder
My Care Companions

Website: https://www.mycarecompanions.com/

Darra Wray is a business professional, senior care consultant and software developer from Boise, Idaho. Darra has more than 30 years of practical business and finance experience and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. She also has a lifetime of personal experience as a family caregiver and patient advocate. She developed a true passion for family caregiving and elder care services through her personal life experiences.

As the CFO of a large non-profit organization, Darra saw how reliant businesses have become on immediate and secure access to information. Yet, as the CEO of her family, she discovered that she often did not have the information she needed to manage and support her family in an increasingly digital world. An unexpected family medical crisis made her realize that her family was completely unprepared to manage the business of life in a digital world. In the wake of this family crisis, Darra set out to find a software tool to help bridge this digital divide, and when she couldn’t find one… she created one.

In 2018, Darra became a Certified Senior Adviser (CSA) and left her role as a finance executive to launch My Care Companions. The mission of My Care Companions is to provide education, tools, resources to family caregivers. In 2019, Darra developed the My Data Diary+® household information software solution and set out on a mission to simplify the business of life for families everywhere. In 2020, she founded LEARN – Lifelong Education and Aging Resources Network Inc, a non-profit organization with a mission to help people navigate the joys and challenges of aging and caregiving. Darra received the Service to Seniors award at the 2024 CSA Conference in recognition of her leadership of LEARN.

Darra co-authored the book Winning Strategies for Family Caregiving: Lessons from Family Game Night to help families learn how to “play” together to support their loved ones in the end game goal to have the best quality of life possible while preserving relationships and resources. She invites you to join her crusade to help individuals and families more effectively navigate and manage the family caregiving process.