Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> September 21, 2009
Raymond J. Lewis is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of
Ventas, Inc. He was named Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of
the company in October 2002, and he was promoted to Executive Vice President in
January 2006. Previously, Mr. Lewis was Managing Director of Business
Development for GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services, a division of General
Electric Capital Corporation, which is a subsidiary of General Electric
Corporation. There he led a team focused on mergers and portfolio acquisitions
of health care assets. Prior to that, Mr. Lewis was Executive Vice President of
health care finance for Heller Financial, Inc.,which was acquired by GECC in
2001. In this role he had primary responsibility for health care lending. Mr.
Lewis has served as a Director of the Assisted Living Federation of America, and
as Chairman and a Director of the National Investment Center for the Seniors
Housing & Care Industry (NIC). He is currently a member of the executive board
of the American Seniors Housing Association. Profile
business.
Mr. Lewis: Ventas is a health care REIT. We were formed in 1998 when we spun-off
our primary tenant,
