[Updated] Blueprint Appoints Co-Founders Firestone and Gehl as CEO, Chief Vision Officer
Blueprint has named Ben Firestone as CEO and Jacob Gehl as the company’s chief eyesight officer.
Business management also appointed Ryan Chase, Michael Segal and Steve Thomes as partners and govt managing administrators.
As CEO, Firestone is overseeing the the Chicago-dependent senior housing and overall health treatment serious estate brokerage’s management staff and delivers strategic direction. He also is dependable for handling and establishing shopper relationships.
As main vision officer, Gehl is responsible for establishing and executing Blueprint’s extensive-time period advancement approach.
The two roles “work hand-in-hand,” the company noted in a push launch about the move.
“While Blueprint’s lifestyle and main values haven’t wavered due to the fact the firm’s inception in 2013, we have been privileged to have professional appreciable growth,” Gehl and Firestone explained in a joint assertion. “Our evolution has led us to professionalize our organizational structure for the profit of our staff and ultimately our purchasers.”
Firestone and Gehl had been among the the 3 co-founders who released the brokerage in 2013. In the time because, they have aided lead the company in completing far more than 480 transactions valued at much more than $7.5 billion in the qualified nursing, senior housing, and health care place of work sectors.
Firestone has a bachelor’s diploma in economics from the College of Michigan and an MBA from the College of Chicago Booth University of Business. He was also on the Nationwide Expense Middle for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Potential Leaders Council, and currently will work with NIC as a member of the organization’s organizing committee.
Previous year, Blueprint released a funds markets observe in a move meant to grow the company’s business solutions for consumers as money marketplaces were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Alex Florea, who joined the firm as a director in November 2017 from Treatment Cash Attributes (CCP), is top that apply.
