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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.

Van Moore, - Senior Policy and Regulatory Affairs Consultant. Van is a veteran and leader of the long-term care industry for the last 28 years. Van has extensive experience and has been involved with direct management of 23 facilities, marketing, and marketing for an organization with 30+ communities and has consulted with many communities in both skilled nursing and assisted living. In addition, he currently provides consultation to a number of state regulatory agencies and contracted to provide professional testimony in compliance related litigation.

Van has written articles on his work for various trade journals and taught seminars on the subject. In addition, he was past President, WA Health Care Association, Board Member of United Nursing Home Association, Board member of the American Health Care Association; and, he now serves on the Board of Veterans Care Centers of Oregon, the Board of Governors for the American Health Care Association, and the national Board of Directors (as Chair of the Executive Board) for the National Center for Assisted Living in Washington, DC.

Al Sturr – Senior Human Resources Consultant. Al has over 30 years of diversified management experience in High Tech, Banking and Senior Housing industries. His focus has been in Human Resources, General Management, Operations and Consulting. A senior HR executive with major international firms (GTE, Sylvania, Corning, Sharp and West One Bank. Senior advisor to many “start up” companies providing counsel for the development of new organizations and the recruitment of key executives. Al can be characterized as a team builder, motivator and coach. Al has developed numerous management training programs, adapting some for the assisted living space unique ability to strategically redesign organizations and implement roles, structures and initiatives to improve operating efficiencies. Understands the staffing and organizational requirements of companies and to quickly recruit quality personnel who can participate in implementing the business model of the corporation. University of Miami BS economics, postgraduate work organizational design Columbia University.

Jennifer Gray – Regional Director of Operations. Jennifer has worked in long term care since graduating from Oregon State University in 2000. She has a B.S. in Health Care Administration, with a minor in business and a Certificate in Gerontology. The bulk of her career has been in nursing home administration, with short forays exploring healthcare recruiting and independent retirement on two separate occasions. These experiences have shown her that her heart and expertise is best served working with seniors in long term care. She has worked in nursing facilities that vary in size (from 20 to 118), and has worked with both regional and national groups. She has had several Interim Administrator roles, where her task has been to clean up, prepare for survey or just step in to fix problems for various reasons. She is excited to move to the next level of her career as a Regional Director with this exciting new company.

Richard E. Parker – Vice President of Facilities and Development. Rick has a 32-year career in the practice of Architecture and the businesses of Contracting and Development, having worked in design, construction, development and facility management. His architectural background includes operating a diversified private architectural practice, designing a wide range of building types, including projects in single and multi-family residential, health care, recreation, office, warehouse and light industrial and retail sectors. He has directly managed construction contracting and development work in office, warehouse and light industrial, and multi-family residential projects. His current work includes design and development for elderly housing and nursing home projects. In addition to consulting with clients, Rick has himself developed, constructed, owned, and managed office and light industrial space for GSA-leased properties.

Rick is a certificate holder of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, and is a licensed Architect in Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, including a minor course of study in Russian, a Bachelor of Architecture and a Masters in Business Administration.

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Jorine Rietman – Controller - Jorine has 23 years of experience in both public accounting and in private industry. During that time, she spent two years working for a “Big Six” accounting firm and successfully passing the CPA exam. Subsequent to public accounting she has held management positions in finance in an SEC reporting manufacturing company, a start up technology company and a real estate management company. For 8 years she provided outsourced CFO/Controller services through her own consulting firm. Her client base included companies in the software development, trade association, distribution, service, and transportation industries. While she has been in the Portland area for most of her career, she spent one year in the Cayman Islands working for an offshore bank maintaining accounting records for multiple offshore companies. Jorine has a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Oregon State University.