SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Plante Moran Living Forward (PMLF), the seniors housing development consulting wing of Southfield-based Plante Moran, has added four members to its team.
New to the firm is Kyle DeHenau and joining from other Plante Moran affiliates are Brent Cousino, Atasi Bagchi and Kelly Grinter.
Brent Cousino, a retired Plante Moran partner and former CPA, has been a leader in the firm since 1997 when he led the merger of a CPA firm he cofounded, NCOT Accounting & Consulting, with Plante Moran. He helped build Plante Moran’s national senior living capital projects practice and cofounded what has become PMLF. Since retiring from the Plante Moran partnership in 2012, he has founded and grown a private advisory firm focused on the healthcare industry.
As part of PMLF, Brent will connect senior living communities with the firm’s resources to help them grow their enterprises through concept development, project planning and feasibility services, and related financing for major capital investments.
Kyle DeHenau and Atasi Bagchi each join PMLF as project managers. They will help clients plan and manage capital projects from concept to completion. DeHenau, a senior consultant, will serve clients out of the Chicago office. Bagchi, a vice president, works out of the Southfield office.
DeHenau has 10 years’ experience working on both small and large projects in a variety of industries, including healthcare. He comes from Pepper Construction in Chicago, and also formerly worked at Barton Malow both in Chicago and Southfield. He has two bachelor’s degrees, one in civil engineering and one in architecture, from Lawrence Technological University.
Bagchi has been with PMLF’s affiliated commercial real estate consulting entity Plante Moran Cresa for several years, where she spent the majority of her time on the projects in downtown Detroit development. She has experience in a variety of industries and is a LEED-accredited professional. She graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering and a master’s degree in construction management.
Grinter joins the PMLF team from Plante Moran’s tax practice, where she served both for-profit and nonprofit clients in the real estate, service and healthcare industries. Grinter, as a consultant, will mainly focus on financial and market feasibility analysis, helping clients through the planning stages of predevelopment. She holds a bachelor’s in accounting from the University of Dayton.