Management
F. Scott Kellman has been our Chief Executive Officer since May 2007 and our President since March 2007. Mr. Kellman has been a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate at our Manager since January 2007. Mr. Kellman is a veteran of the healthcare industry and has 22 years of experience deploying capital in healthcare real estate. Prior to joining our Manager, Mr. Kellman was Senior Vice President business development, at Healthcare Property Investors, Inc. from June 2005 until January 2007, where he was responsible for directing business development and sourcing investment opportunities. In addition, Mr. Kellman served as Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation from March 2003 until May 2005 where he managed the financial aspects of Tenet's real estate as well as overseeing the company's corporate finance and cash management functions. Prior to that, Mr. Kellman was an executive officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. from August 1993 until February 2002, where he acquired and provided debt financing for healthcare real estate properties. Mr. Kellman served as Chief Operating Officer the last three years he was at Omega. In addition, Mr. Kellman founded and operated Medical REIT, a healthcare REIT, which was merged into Omega Healthcare in August 1993. Mr. Kellman received an AB in Political Science with high distinction as well as a JD from the University of Michigan.
Michael P. McDugall has been our Chief Investment Officer since May 2007. Mr. McDugall has been a Managing Director and Head of Risk Management for real estate investment at our Manager since March 2007. In this capacity, he has overall credit responsibility for the real estate investment portfolio of our Manager. Prior to joining our Manager, Mr. McDugall held a variety of management roles at GE Commercial Finance Real Estate from December 1987 to March 2007. From April 2002 until March 2007 Mr. McDugall served within GE's North American Equity Investment Division as a territory risk manager and credit officer within the Business Development and Direct Investments Groups from April 2005 until March 2007 and before that within the Strategic Joint Venture Group from April 2002 until April 2005, where his responsibilities included overseeing transaction structuring, underwriting due diligence, credit approvals and closing due diligence. Prior to joining GE, Mr. McDugall was a manager with the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (successor firm to Coopers and Lybrand) from January 1984 until December 1987 where he practiced as a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. McDugall received a BS in Business Administration from LaSalle University.
Frank E. Plenskofski was elected as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer in July 2008. Mr. Plenskofski, has served as a CFO both in the public and private market and has over 25 years of expertise in overseeing corporate finance, mergers and divestitures as well as specialty finance and REIT industry experience. Mr. Plenskofski was a Senior Vice President with Trust Company of the West where he worked on a potential initial public offering of a specialty finance company that would have been structured as a REIT. Prior, Mr. Plenskofski was Chief Financial Officer of Loan Interactive Group, a partnership established to acquire on-line mortgage originators. From August 2002 to March 2006, Mr. Plenskofski was the Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Opteum Financial Services, LLC (“OFS”), a direct mortgage lender, which was acquired in November 2005 by Opteum Financial, Inc. and operated as a taxable REIT subsidiary of the firm thereafter. Mr. Plenskofski has also held various executive and senior level positions during his career including Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of HomeBanc Mortgage, Inc., Senior Vice-President and Chief Accounting Officer for GMAC Residential (now part of Residential Capital LLC, which is part of GMC, LLC) and as Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Rock Financial Corporation, which is now operating as QuickenLoans Inc. Mr. Plenskofski is a graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting.
