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Page 8 — Health Care Properties Quarterly — April 2017
Who's News
Ray Oborn joined United Proper-
ties as president of Cherrywood
Pointe Investment, where he is
responsible for expanding the firm’s
Cherrywood Pointe Senior Living
communities.
Oborn is a member
of United Properties’
executive team and
reports in to co-pres-
idents Bill Katter and
Eva Stevens. Though
he is based in Den-
ver, he has offices
in both Denver and
Minneapolis.
Oborn brings more than 20 years
of experience in the senior living
industry and a passion for improv-
ing the lives of seniors. He has
worked with independent living,
assisted-living, memory care, post-
acute care and skilled-nursing facili-
ties.
Most recently Oborn was senior
regional vice president of operations
for Brookdale Senior Living in the
Rocky Mountain region, and was
responsible for 80-plus communities
in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Wyo-
ming, Montana and North Dakota.
Prior to that, he was senior vice
president of operations for New Per-
spective Senior Living, a developer
and operator of senior housing com-
munities in the Midwest. He also
has worked for several other leading
senior housing developers and oper-
ators, including Silverado Senior Liv-
ing and Sunrise Senior Living, where
he spent 10 years in various roles,
beginning as an executive director
of a community. s
Brian Spoerl joined Opus Devel-
opment Company LLC as director,
health care real estate development.
Spoerl will be responsible for
sourcing new development and
acquisition opportunities for Opus
Healthcare across the country.
Spoerl comes to the firm with
more than 20 years of commercial
real estate and health care real
estate experience.
He is an expert on
health care real
estate development
of medical office
buildings, retail clin-
ics and ambulatory
care facilities and
has worked closely
with health and
hospital system
leadership on key issues involving
capital planning, population health
strategies and ambulatory service
line expansion
Most recently, Spoerl served as
vice president of business develop-
ment for a national health care and
commercial developer based in Mil-
waukee, and in prior roles with HSA
PrimeCare in Chicago and as an
investment broker at Marcus & Mil-
lichap.
Spoerl graduated from the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a
Bachelor of Business Administration
in real estate and urban develop-
ment. s
Mike Wood joined National
Healthcare Realty as executive vice
president of design and construc-
tion.
In this role, Wood will oversee all
national design, construction and
project management efforts for the
firm’s ground-up development proj-
ects.
Prior to joining the
firm, Wood served
as national director
of health care mar-
ket development for
Oldcastle Inc., an
international build-
ing products organi-
zation.
Wood holds gradu-
ate degrees in orga-
nization development, business
administration and medicine, as
well as undergraduate degrees in
business management, physics and
radiologic technology. He also is the
current president of the Healthcare
Institute as well as president of
CAHED in Colorado.
He will be based in the in the
firm’s corporate office in Denver. s
Griffis/Blessing promoted Patty
Jones from assistant portfolio
manager to port-
folio manager in
the commercial
services group.
Jones will oversee
a seven-building,
358,788-square-foot
portfolio of medical,
office and industrial
property types. s
Bradley Kraus was named presi-
dent and chief operating officer of
Spectrum Retirement.
Jeffrey Kraus and John Sevo, who
co-founded the Denver-based com-
pany, one of the largest privately
held senior living owner operators
in the U.S., made the announce-
ment.
Bradley Kraus has worked for the
firm for four years, most recently
in the role of senior vice president
of development. In his new posi-
tion, Kraus will be responsible for
overseeing all facets of the firm’s
day-to-day operations, including
33 senior living communities in 12
states, which employ a staff of more
than 2,600.
Sevo and Jeffrey Kraus will con-
tinue to serve in their dual roles of
managing directors and chief execu-
tive officers of Spectrum Retirement
and its development arm, Spectrum
Acquisition Partners, respectively.
Bradley Kraus is a graduate of the
Cornell University School of Hotel
Administration. Prior to joining
Spectrum, he was a senior associ-
ate in the real estate practice of
Cerberus Capital Management. He
began his career as an analyst at
Morgan Stanley, working in the real
estate investment banking and real
estate private equity groups. s
Pyms Capital Resources has been
acquired by Blueprint Healthcare
Real Estate Advisors. Pamela Pyms
and Hayden Behnke, formerly of
Pyms Capital, will open Blueprint’s
Denver office. It has other offices in
Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington,
D.C., and Portland, Oregon.
Pyms is managing director and
Behnke is senior associate. s
Ray Oborn
Brian Spoerl
Patty Jones
Mike Wood