CHICAGO — Ventas Inc. (NYSE: VTR) has appointed Michael Embler, former chief investment officer of Franklin Mutual Advisors, to its board of directors. Jay Gellert, who has served on the Ventas board since 2001, will retire from the board at the company’s annual meeting in May. Embler will serve on Ventas’ investment and audit committees. Ventas also announced that Melody Barnes is expected to serve as chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee, effective at the company’s annual meeting. Embler, 57, is an institutional investor with 30 years of …
IRVINE, Calif. — Oakmont Senior Living, an Irvine-based operator with over 40 communities in California and Nevada, has promoted Scott Carlson to senior vice president of operations. Carlson joined Oakmont Senior Living in 2017 as the regional vice president of operations supporting the Northern California communities. Prior to Oakmont, he worked for Brookdale Senior Living, where he served in management positions including executive director, district director of sales and district director of operations. Carlson’s previous experience also includes serving as regional director of memory care for Sunrise Senior Living. Over …
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — Discovery Senior Living has promoted Lou Maranto to senior vice president of sales. Maranto has served as vice president of sales for Discovery since 2018, and has been integral in the company’s planning and execution of milestone innovations including the launch of its centralized sales contact center in February 2021. Maranto will continue to oversee Discovery’s national sales organization, which consists of three national brands, four regions, a sales education department and the sales contact center. Under Maranto’s leadership, Discovery has strategically expanded its sales training …
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Claiborne Senior Living, a Hattiesburg-based operator, has hired Brooke Saxon-Spencer as vice president of marketing. Saxon-Spencer is responsible for all aspects of the organization’s marketing efforts, both corporately and for Claiborne Senior Living’s communities. Saxon-Spencer brings over 20 years of experience in senior living including senior management roles at Radiant Senior Living, Oakmont Senior Living and Covenant Living. She is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Belong Magazine, a publication for female creatives and entrepreneurs.
RICHMOND, Va. — Berkadia has hired Steve Muth as a managing director for Berkadia Seniors Housing & Healthcare, serving on the mortgage banking platform. Muth will report to Steve Ervin, senior vice president and head of FHA and seniors housing finance. “Last year was a much brighter year for the seniors housing market, as vaccine rollouts in the first quarter of the year helped occupancy climb and allowed the sector to rebound across the remainder of the year,” says Ervin. “As a result, we saw activity return with investors looking …
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Claiborne Senior Living has named Justin Wray as vice president of operations. Wray now oversees the day-to-day operations and works alongside Claiborne Senior Living’s communities to ensure that they are optimizing operations. Wray brings over 16 years of hands-on experience in seniors housing to the organization, both in operational strategy as well as sales and marketing. Previously, he worked in senior management positions with providers such as Pegasus Senior Living and Frontier Management LLC, where he helped grow the organization from 38 to 108 properties. Headquartered in …
OAK LAWN, Ill. — Anthem Memory Care has named Dashira Contreras as executive director for Grace Point Place, a community in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago. Contreras previously was director of resident care at The Carrington of Lincolnwood in Lincolnwood. She also served as director of memory care for The Carrington. She brings over 10 years of senior living experience to this position. She earned a medical assistant degree from Lincoln College of Technology in Melrose Park. In addition, Contreras is a certified dementia practitioner and a Montessori dementia …
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sunshine Retirement Living has named Bruce Johnson as the new executive director at Hammond Glen Retirement Community in Sandy Springs, a suburb of Atlanta. The company also hired Peter Cartagena as the community’s executive chef. Johnson has experience in spearheading multi-disciplinary teams in seniors housing communities with a mix of memory care, assisted living and independent living offerings. In his new role, he will leverage a social services background to enrich residents’ living experiences and improve staff engagement and performance. In addition to serving in senior …
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — Discovery Senior Living has completed a strategic realignment of its Discovery Village portfolio and announced the appointment of Cindy Crowley as national brand manager. Crowley will focus on a collection of Discovery Village communities in Florida, most of which feature large independent living buildings with separate continuing care offerings on the shared campuses. It’s the second national brand manager position established by Discovery, which designed the new role to better align leadership over common assets, enable future portfolio growth and efficiently allocate corporate resources to drive …
LOS ANGELES — Walker & Dunlop Inc. has hired Gideon Orion as managing director on its investment sales platform. Orion is based in Los Angeles and will join the firm’s national seniors housing property sales team led by Joshua Jandris. Orion will focus on originating and executing seniors housing property sales opportunities across the United States. Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Orion served as managing director and managing broker of California for Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, an advisory firm exclusively focused on seniors housing and healthcare real estate. …