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Christian A. Mason - President and CEO. Chris has a remarkable 27 plus year career in the long term health industry that spans operation from the ground up and management of top performing operations; Greenfield developments and turnarounds that covers more than 100 facilities and over 15,000 units of nursing, assisted living, Alzheimer, residential care, and retirement communities. A successful entrepreneur, Chris’ achievements included growing assets from nothing to over 15 million dollars between 1987 to 1990 with Senior Living Services, Inc and then again from zero to 30 million dollars between 1990 to 1999 with Sun Retirement Corporation (sold to a Canadian REIT and now operating under Chris oversight as Revera).

As a visionary in this industry, Chris is institutionalizing the best of his management, operation and marketing practices through Vigilan Inc, a systems company he founded in 1999. He is also teaching seminars, publishing numerous articles on trends, management techniques and, benchmarks for trade journals. He also authored Study Guides on Financial Management and several licensure courses for the Assisted Living Industry.

Chris sits on the board of the National Center for Assisted Living, a part of the American Health Care Association. He is a certified fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators and in the past was a certified administrator for skilled nursing in over 40 states. Amongst his other leadership roles are leading and serving on the board of Oregon Health Care Association and Exam Writing Committee for the National Association of Boards of Examiners for Long Term Care. He is the author of a nationally certified course for assisted living administrators. Chris has a BS in RT/OT with a minor in applied mathematics as well as an MBA with concentrations in finance and organizational behavior.

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Russ Brown – Principal. Mr. Brown focuses on marketing, finance, and general management, a complement to Mr. Mason's extensive operating experience.

Mr. Brown has been directly involved in the health care business for the past 20 years, with special emphasis on the long term care area the past 10 years. A successful entrepreneur, he was the Founder (in 1989) and CEO of Certifax Pharmacy Services, a mail order prescription drug company that he sold to the Walgreen Company in late 1999. During that time period, he served on the Board of Directors of ODS Health Plans, a successful regional health care insurance company. In 1994, Mr. Brown was a Founder of a long-term care pharmacy that is now called Payless Long Term Care Pharmacy. Payless is now the largest privately held long-term care pharmacy in the Pacific Northwest, and Russ remains a major shareholder and active Board member. In addition, Mr. Brown is active as a shareholder and Board Chair of Concero, Inc. a healthcare administration company; is active as a shareholder and Board member of Vigilan, Inc., the long term care software company founded by Mr. Mason; and was a Board member of Avamere, Inc., one of the largest northwest regional long term care facility operating companies. Mr. Brown holds both -Master and Bachelor degrees in Business Administration from Oregon State University.

Robert H Zink - Vice President Real Estate Development – Robert focuses on market selection, finding distressed assets, asset disposition, and financing.

Mr. Zink has been involved in the acquisition and disposition of real estate assets for high net worth individuals and institutions for over 30 years. These include banks, savings and loan institutions, and syndicators in various property asset classes. During the last major recession Mr. Zink was part of a national group (The Lenders Task Force) focused on bank-owned properties. The task force’s efforts included selling properties for the Banks and acquiring properties from the Banks for high net worth clients. Mr. Zink led the disposition team for the nation’s largest land syndicator, the Meyers Group of Dallas Texas. Most recently, Mr. Zink has been raising money from high net worth individuals for the acquisition of assisted living facilities.

Mr. Zink has an Oregon Real Estate License in addition to series 22 and 63 securities licenses. Mr. Zink is past president of the Society of Exchange Counselors, a select group of creative real estate investment brokers. The SEC focuses on problem solving through finding value-added solutions to real estate problems. Mr. Zink holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Oregon.