ects in Downtown Los Angeles, and was principal and CEO of
Windsor Capital, which acquired and managed a large portfolio
of apartment projects throughout the United States.
GEORGE L. CHAPMAN
The founders of Health Care
REIT, Bruce Thompson and Fritz
Wolfe, recruited George
Chapman in 1992 to succeed
them, lead a management transition and execute a strategic repositioning for the company, the
first real estate investment trust
dedicated to the sector. Four
years later, Chapman became the
REIT’s chairman and CEO, taking on the title of president once
again in 2009 after previously
serving in that capacity between 1995 and 2002. On his watch,
HCN has grown from a $358-million company into a $23-billion
one that’s on the S&P 500 list. A recent highlight was the
$4.3-billion acquisition of Sunrise Senior Living, a deal that
closed this past summer and put HCN among the world’s largest
owners in this sector.
SHARON HARPER
With a list of honors that could go
on for days, Sharon Harper has
made Plaza Cos.—where she is president and CEO—a star in the healthcare business. During the course of
her leadership, Plaza has been honored as one of Arizona’s most
admired companies by Arizona
Business Magazine; large developer
of the year by NAIOP; by BOMA for
medical office building of the year, for three years; and by
Arizona Business Magazine as an ‘economic engine’ in 2007.
Among her personal accomplishments, she has served as chairman of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, an honorary
commander of Luke Air Force Base and national finance
chairman of the 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns of
Arizona Sen. John McCain.
CHAIM KATZMAN
Chaim Katzman is a chairman
several times over. Among the
firms where he holds that title is
ProMed Properties Inc., a privately held subsidiary of Gazit-Globe Ltd., a global real estate
investment company listed on
the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange.
ProMed’s primary investment
objective is the creation of value
through long-term maximization of cash flows and capital
appreciation from its healthcare
real estate investments. ProMed’s primary investment objective
is the creation of value through long-term maximization of cash
flows and capital appreciation from its healthcare real estate
investments. Katzman also serves as chairman for Gazit-Globe’s
parent company, Gazit Inc.; Equity One, an NYSE-listed REIT;
First Capital Realty, an Ontario real estate company listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange; Atrium European Real Estate, a leading real estate company in Central and Eastern Europe listed on
the Vienna Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam; and
Citycon, a long-term developer of shopping centers listed on the
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
JOSEPH KELLEHER
Now president of Simone
Development Cos., Joseph
Kelleher has some 30 years of
experience in property management to his credit. He began his
career with the real estate division
at NYNEX, where he served as
property manager for the corporate headquarters building in
Manhattan. From there, he steadily
advanced in the industry, serving
as director of property management for Catalano Kornblum
Management Corp. and Winoker
Realty Corp., and then as CEO for Casino New York LLC. He
joined Simone in 2003 to direct the leasing and management of
the Hutchinson Metro Center, the company’s highly visible and
much talked-about office complex in the Pelham Bay section of
the Bronx.
PETER KLOEPFER
A co-founder of NexCore Group,
Peter Kloepfer is pivotal to the
company’s strategic planning. As
CIO, his leadership drives the
structure of NexCore’s development and acquisition projects, the
evaluation and negotiation of capital and debt sources, and major
project delivery. Kloepfer brings 24
years of real estate development
financing and structuring experience to NexCore. He has been responsible for over $2 billion of
real estate transactions and has invested in more than $450 million of projects. Kloepfer has the Colorado CPA certification
and he is involved with the American Bar Association, American
Society of CPAs, Colorado Bar Association, and Colorado
Association of CPAs.
TODD W.
LILLIBRIDGE
Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ventas Inc.,
Lillibridge Healthcare
Services began as a company of real estate professionals. “But soon, the
organization grew and
added healthcare professionals who began teaching the real estate folks
about healthcare—and
the real estate professionals taught the healthcare professionals about
