BOSTON — Beacon Communities, Boston-based affordable housing developer, has hired Tim Sullivan as chief administrative officer (CAO). Formerly of UBS and MassHousing, Sullivan will be responsible for the overall financial strategy and oversight of information technology, human resources, accounting and finance. Bringing extensive knowledge and deep financial expertise to Beacon, Sullivan most recently served as managing director and head of housing finance and New England region for the public finance department at UBS. Before joining UBS in 2017, he spent 15 years at MassHousing, where he served as the executive …
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LCB Senior Living Promotes Amber Evans to Vice President of Memory Care, Resident Engagement
NORWOOD, Mass. — LCB Senior Living, a Norwood-based owner-operator, has promoted Amber Evans to vice president of memory care and resident engagement. In this role, Evans will oversee LCB’s Reflections Memory Care Program and resident engagement operations. Evans joined LCB Senior Living in 2015 as a memory care and engagement specialist before being promoted to director of memory care and resident engagement in 2021. In February, she was also named the vice chair of education outreach for the National Institute for Dementia Education’s Standard of Excellence Council. Evans is a …
ORLANDO — Spiezle, an Orlando-based architectural firm, has hired Suzanne Barnes as director of client services. Barnes has over four decades of experience in architecture, design and business development with work in senior living, healthcare and mixed-use development. She has spearheaded large-scale senior living, mixed-use design projects that serve more than 7,000 residents. Barnes is a member of the AIA National Design for Aging Advisory Board, Women in Architecture, and former chair of the Orlando Foundation for Architecture. She is currently a part of the Urban Land Institute’s Real Estate …
WESTPORT, Conn. —LCB Senior Living, a Westport-based operator, has hired Gina Lucchese to its sales team in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Lucchese will serve as a sales specialist, where she will assist with sales across LCB Senior Living’s three communities in Fairfield County: The Residence at Summer Street in Stamford, The Residence at Selleck’s Woods in Darien, and The Residence at Westport. Previously, Lucchese served as a senior advisor with Epoch Senior Living and director of community relations at Benchmark Senior Living. She is also a licensed practical nurse with nearly …
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Solstice Senior Living, a Carlsbad-based operator, has hired Laurel O’Dell as regional director of sales and marketing for the West region. O’Dell will support sales and marketing initiatives at 12 Solstice Senior Living communities in Washington and California. Prior to joining Solstice, O’Dell served as an award-winning, traveling director of sales at Sunrise Senior Living and was later promoted to regional sales. Additionally, O’Dell worked as a senior living adviser at A Place For Mom and as a memory care director at Oakmont Senior Living.
AUSTIN and DALLAS, Texas — Newmark has hired Chris McColpin and Andrew Porteous as senior managing directors specializing in debt, equity and structured finance services within the firm’s capital markets practice. Based in Austin and Dallas, respectively, McColpin and Porteous will join director Josh Francis to lead the commercial debt efforts in Texas while working closely with Newmark’s industrial, office and multifamily capital markets professionals. They will report to Ran Holman, executive vice president and Texas market leader. Prior to joining Newmark, McColpin served as a managing director of JLL …
NEW YORK CITY — Newmark has hired John Ward as vice chairman of its multifamily capital markets group. Based in New York, Ward specializes in the origination of debt products for multifamily and other commercial assets nationwide, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA/HUD, CMBS, life company, banks, preferred equity/mezzanine and bridge loan executions. With more than three decades of commercial real estate development, valuation and debt origination experience, Ward has placed and structured over $15 billion in capital through varying executions and capital structures for an array of property types. …
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — Grace Management Inc., a Maple Grove-based operator, has promoted Jenna Johnston to regional director of operations. Johnston joined Grace Management in April 2020 as the executive director of The Residence at Bethel Park, located in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. It is at Bethel Park where she began to make her mark, leading this community and team up to 100 percent occupied with strong financial results. Within 16 months, Johnston was promoted to senior executive director and began to support The Residence at Whitehall, located in Pittsburgh. She …
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Integral Senior Living, a Carlsbad-based operator, has named Cassondra Blair as national vice president of operational services. Blair has been with Integral Senior Living for 11 years, previously serving as national director of organizational services, project manager and licensing expert. Blair will oversee the day-to-day system management responsibilities to ensure that there is smooth running of customer service operations and find a way to ensure positive experiences for residents and their loved ones.
Priority Life Care Promotes Marilou Hudanick to Vice President of Quality Services/Assurance
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Priority Life Care (PLC), a Fort Wayne-based national seniors housing operator, has promoted Marilou Hudanick to the position of vice president of quality services/assurance. In her new role, Hudanick will oversee all regional clinical nurses. Additionally, she will be responsible for ensuring compliance with state regulations and risk management policies. Hudanick has over 30 years of experience as a registered nurse, starting in acute care settings. Eventually, she transitioned to home health. Hre previous titles include director of nursing in assisted living, administrator/executive director, and regional …