Jason Simmers

Jason has 25 years of experience in the healthcare and real estate industries where he has invested more than $4B and asset managed nearly $20B of healthcare real estate assets for two publicly traded REITs and a private investment firm.

Prior to founding Bearing Healthcare Capital, Jason was Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Greene Park Capital, a boutique healthcare real estate investment firm, where he sourced, evaluated and executed investment opportunities including closing $600M+ of transaction value. Preceding Greene Park, Jason was part of the Ventas senior leadership team and head of Healthcare Portfolio Management. During his tenure, he was responsible for managing key partnerships with public and privately held health systems, specialty hospitals, skilled nursing and senior housing operators in the US and UK.

In addition, Jason underwrote portfolio investments and led the portfolio management function for NorthStar Asset Management Group’s (formerly NYSE:NSAM) non-traded Healthcare REIT while successfully integrating $10B of healthcare real estate acquisitions. Prior to NorthStar, he advised corporations, banks, hedge funds and private equity groups on structured debt, equity and M&A transactions principally focused on high growth and distressed investment opportunities. Notably, he served as interim head of Treasury for a not-for-profit health system leading to a successful 363 sale.

Jason earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance at Vanderbilt University and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.