TOLEDO, Ohio — Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN) has hired Kevin Tyler as vice president of investments. Tyler joins Welltower from Green Street Advisors, where he served as analyst and healthcare sector head.
Tyler will be based at the company’s Beverly Hills, Calif., office and will focus on identifying and managing growth opportunities for Welltower in strategic West Coast markets.
Tyler has nearly 15 years of experience in real estate, healthcare and corporate finance. He is a frequent speaker on trends and market factors impacting seniors housing, outpatient medical and post-acute real estate. He has served on the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care (NIC) investment guide task force, which produces regular reports on the senior care sector. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in New York in investment banking.
Tyler holds an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgetown University.
Toledo-based Welltower is the largest seniors housing REIT in the United States by both market cap and total units.