WHO WE ARE
   

Jerry Meyer

Chairman, Board of Directors
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Jerry Meyer
Redmond, Washington

Jerry Meyer is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Aegis Living and is responsible for operations of the Aegis Living communities.

Prior to joining Aegis Living, Jerry was the President and CEO of SunBridge, Inc., a senior housing company. During his tenure, he successfully secured more than $200 million in new construction project financing. He was responsible for developing the business plans, pro formas and budgets for a 42-building rollout. Prior to his work at SunBridge, Jerry was the Vice President and CEO for the Assisted Living Division of Manor Care, Inc., where he grew revenues from zero to $60 million in only two years.

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S.Erkelens

Managing Partner
949-533-7700
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David Collins
Corona del Mar, California

David P. Collins began his career in Seniors Housing with ARV Assisted Living of Costa Mesa California in 1980. Mr. Collins directed the company’s capital formation strategies as President and CEO of ARV Capital. During the course of his association with the company Mr. Collins efforts succeeded in raising more than $160,000,000.00 in private investment funding. Employing an all cash or limited leverage structure Mr. Collins sold seventy six Limited and S.E.C. registered Partnerships throughout the United States. He then led the successful flotation of the company’s shares on NASDAQ in 1992. During that time the company became Americas largest Assisted Living enterprise.

He served on the Board of Directors of the publically traded firm and was a member of both the Audit and Compensation committees. In April of 2003 , Prometheus Assisted Living L.L.C. (an affiliate of Lazard Frères & Co, L.L.C) acquired all the shares of ARV and took the company private. At that time Mr. Collins was the company’s largest individual shareholder.

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Marco Alvarez

215-253-3757
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Marco Alvarez
Mexico City, Mexico

Since 2004, Marco Alvarez has concentrated his skills to quality senior housing for the Mexican society. He has developed a valuable internal network of professionals and specialists throughout the country, providing years of experience and knowledge of the Mexican 50+ market. He was elected to serve as Vice President of the Global Village Network developing multicultural skills in leadership around the world. He is fluent in Spanish, English, and French and holds a joint M.S. in finance from Harvard University, Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles de Madrid IEB and Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City.

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Scott Eckstein

424-262-1288
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Scott Eckstein
Irvine, California
Senior Housing Operations Management


Profit & Loss /Budget Management
New Home Openings
Senior Housing Turnarounds
Senior Housing Development
Site Selection
Due Diligence
Market and Financial Analysis
Project Management
New Business Development
Consultative & Solutions Sales

Scott has extensive knowledge of the senior housing continuum from the active senior to assisted living & dementia care. Broad-based competencies in generating profits through strategic planning, market analysis, sales and innovative/cost effective operations management techniques.

Skilled in creative transaction structuring and negotiating deals from inception to closure. Adept in planning and executing projects from concept to functional operations. Skilled in managing consultants and obtaining consensus and reducing bottlenecks. Effective at managing relationships at all levels, including staff, peers, clients, and consultants.

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949-289-3187
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Stephan Erkelens
Irvine, California

Mr. Erkelens’ has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial experience in developing large-scale global initiatives including a comprehensive array of real estate ventures. His Latin American upbringing and European education affords him a unique competence in reaching across cultures to structure multinational partnerships adept at financing and managing complex transactions. As the managing partner of a US development and investment firm he led the organization’s expansion into Mexico leveraging the region’s unique advantage to address the particular needs of the “Second Home”, “Seniors Retirement Communities” and “Health Care” industry segments.

Stephan’s educational background includes the following studies: „Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften“ (Staats Universität, Graz, Austria); “Risk Management in Banking” (Europe Campus - Fontainebleau, France) and “Wharton YPO Presidents’ Seminar” (Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania).

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Henri Moeremans d'Emaus
Milan, Italy

Since 1998, Henri Moeremans d’Emaus has been active in the health care sector for investment and development throughout Europe with a Washington, D.C. based investment fund. He has conducted market research on independent and assisted living in the Benelux countries, Italy and France. In the past several years, Mr. Moeremans d’Emaus has contributed substantially to the development and sales activities in Europe of Active Living International.

In addition to English, Henri is fluent in French, Italian and Spanish and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Michelle Nguyen
Corona del Mar, CA

Michelle Nguyen has four years experience in the field of marketing research and development and is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Business Economics. Michelle’s assignments have been with the Boeing company and as an Analyst with the Keller Group. Michelle is fluent in English, Vietnamese and is studying Spanish.

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Sharon Wang

Office: +86-21-3135 9268
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Sharon Wang
Shanghai, P. R. China

Special Advisor, China

Sharon Wang has over 16 years experience in the U.S. and China in financial service industries;

Special Advisor to Chairmen and executives of several Chinese insurance companies; Former Board of Directors member of several companies including an automobile insurance service company from U.S.

Investor, investment banker, and advisor for Chinese companies in various industries including insurance, senior housing and services, manufacturing, and medical/pharmaceutical/biotech;

Advised companies from the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Korea on China entry strategies, joint venture partner search, China executive team recruiting and building, and business intelligence;

Advised Chinese companies on internationalization, strategic partnership, overseas investment, executive team recruiting and building, insurance services, risk management, and fund raising;

Long-term personal and business relationship with executives in insurance, banks, their regulators, and other industries.

Language interpretation is a necessary part but there is more:  we understand and interpret business terminologies, bridge culture differences, and provide local knowledge, intelligence and advice to assist in negotiation. 

M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and Recipient of Engineering Fellowship from Stanford University, U.S. Dual B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics with Honors from Purdue University, U.S.

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