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Ray Oborn Joins American Healthcare Investors

Irvine-based American Healthcare Investors expanded its leadership team with the addition of Ray Oborn as an EVP, asset management. He will be responsible for overseeing an international portfolio of senior housing, skilled nursing and hospital assets within the firm’s $4.2-billion portfolio of assets under management.

American Healthcare Investors’ Danny Prosky says, “Ray Oborn is an exceptional addition to our executive team, bringing with him 25 years of executive-level experience in the senior housing space, including extensive operational expertise.”

The commercial real estate industry veteran joins the healthcare-related real estate firm from Cherrywood Pointe Investment, where he served as president, and its parent company, United Properties, where he served as EVP of the Minneapolis-based real estate investment and development firm. Oborn was directly responsible for managing Cherrywood Pointe Investment’s senior housing portfolio and strategic growth initiatives.

Wendie Newman will continue to oversee all medical office buildings within the portfolio, in her capacity as EVP, asset management.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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