Zhang Huiqi

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

Steve Jobs

Ms. Zhang has served as a Director since March 2016. Ms. Zhang is currently a Non-Executive Director of Xingye Wulian Service Group Co. Ltd., whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (Stock Code:9916), and the supervisor for Henan Hongguang Real Estate Limited, a company primarily engaged in property development in China, and Henan Zensun Corporate Development Group Company Limited, a company mainly engaged in investment of city infrastructure and related public facilities, finance, commerce, tourism, culture, hotel and agriculture, as well as providing consulting services in investment management, asset management and business administration. She has held her supervisory position since January 2013 for Henan Hongguang Real Estate Limited and since September 2013 for Henan Zensun Corporate Development Company Limited. These companies are controlled by Mr. Zhang Jingguo. Ms. Zhang is the daughter of Mr. Zhang Jingguo.

Prior to Heng Hongguang Real Estate Limited and Henan Zensun Corporate Development Company Limited, Ms. Zhang was a full-time student. Ms. Zhang graduated from the University College London and obtained a Master of Science in Project and Enterprise Management degree in 2015. She holds a Master of Science in Management degree from the University of Leicester (2013) and a Bachelor of Management in Business Administration (Information Management and Information Systems) degree from Beijing Forestry University (2011).

Paula Crowley

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

Ms. Crowley has served as a Director since June 2018. Ms. Crowley has over 40 years of real estate experience and has worked with Anchor Health Properties (“Anchor”), which she co-founded in 1987 and where she served as Chief Executive Officer until October 2015, when Anchor was sold to Brinkman Management and Development. Since October 2015, Ms. Crowley has continued to be involved with Anchor, serving as its Chairman from October 2015 through November 2017 and as its Chair Emeritus since November 2017. Anchor is a national full-service real estate development, management and investment company that focuses on healthcare properties. Prior to Anchor, Ms. Crowley spent eight years as Development Director with The Rouse Company of Columbia, Maryland, where she was responsible for the development of urban retail projects.

Ms. Crowley served as Chair of the Board of the High Companies in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through October 2019, as well as Chair of the Board of Women’s Way, a not-for-profit organization based in Philadelphia. As of February 2020, Ms. Crowley was appointed Chair of the Board of The Kaiserman Company in Philadelphia.

Ms. Crowley is an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program at Villanova University in the Finance Department. Ms. Crowley received a BA from Middlebury College, a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

Henry Cole

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

Winston S. Churchill

Mr. Cole has served as the Lead Director since August 2015. Mr. Cole draws on over 40 years of successful executive management and implementation of health and medical programs involving innovations in technology, market development and service delivery. Mr. Cole serves as President of Global Development International, LLC, a position he has held since 2007. In this position he has provided development support, management and oversight for companies and varied program initiatives in medical and healthcare programs and products. This has included Instant Labs Medical Diagnostics, Inc. (molecular diagnostics, hospital-based infections); MedPharm, Inc. (global and developing country hospital and clinic support); Global MD, Inc. (global physicians network); MPRC Group, Ltd., Lebanon and US (medical equipment, medical system planning and support throughout the Middle East); Integrated Health Services Ltd., India (health services planning for India); Karishma Health Care Ltd., India (hospital medical systems software for India, US, Africa); and various others. Mr. Cole previously served from 2007–2010 as Vice President for Strategy at Camris International, Inc., with a focus on technologies and services for infectious disease, radiation diagnostics and pulmonary care. From 1981 to 2005 Mr. Cole served as President and Corporate Officer at Futures Group International and Futures Group Holdings. Under his direction, corporate programs expanded to offices in over 40 countries. At Futures, Mr. Cole oversaw programs that included policy, planning, services and facilities addressing public and private sector infectious disease response in over 35 countries. In addition, he was a founder and served as executive for a subsidiary for national health planning and services (Futures Group UK); a subsidiary for US rehabilitation services (Futures HealthCore); and a subsidiary for global medical equipment distribution (North Star Health). From 1971–1979 Mr. Cole was Director of Population Programs at the Center for Advanced Studies of General Electric. Earlier he served on the Faculty of Economics, Tulane University (1969–1972) and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers as a staff intern (1969–1970).

Mr. Cole has served on the boards of numerous organizations. Since June 2018, he has been a Director of Avant Diagnostics, Inc. (AVDX), a cancer diagnostics company. Mr. Cole’s previous board positions have included the Millennium Project from 1996 to 2006; the Futures Institute for Sustainable Development from 2001 to 2005; the Foundation Against HIV and AIDS from 2007 to 2011; Kids Save International from 2006 to 2012; Triple Win International from 2008 to 2013; and others. He has worked in over 28 countries, with in-depth experience beyond the United States in Egypt, Turkey, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Sudan, Sahelian Africa, Haiti, Trinidad, Bahamas, Philippines, China, Indonesia and India.

Mr. Cole holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed PhD studies (ABD) in Political Economy, including completion of comprehensive written and oral exams.

Lori Wittman

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ms. Wittman has served as a Director since May 2018. Ms. Wittman has extensive experience in the real estate development industry and until February 2020 was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Big Rock Partners Acquisition Corp., a “blank check” company (“Big Rock Partners”), and remains an advisor to Big Rock Partners. From August 2015 through August 2017, Ms. Wittman served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Care Capital Properties, Inc. (CCP), a public real estate investment trust (REIT) that was spun off in 2015 from Ventas, Inc. (Ventas), a publicly held REIT that owns over 1,600 healthcare properties across the United States and Canada. CCP was a healthcare REIT with a diversified portfolio of triple-net leased properties focused on the post-acute sector. CCP was merged into Sabra Healthcare in August of 2017. Prior to serving at CCP, Ms. Wittman was the Senior Vice President of Capital Markets & Investor Relations for Ventas. During her tenure at Ventas, Ms. Wittman had oversight responsibilities for all capital market, investor relations and marketing activities and oversaw the corporate analyst team responsible for the corporate earnings model. From 2006 through 2011, Ms. Wittman was Chief Financial Officer & Managing Principal for Big Rock Partners, LLC, a real estate private equity firm focused on generating returns through development and redevelopment, where she led all capital markets, accounting and investor activities.

Ms. Wittman has also served in various capacities for General Growth Properties, Heitman Financial and Homart Development Company, all entities involved in the investment and/or development of real estate. Ms. Wittman also served on the Board of Directors and as Head of the Audit Committee of Green Realty Trust, Inc. Ms. Wittman serves as a Director of IMH Financial (IMH), a member of IMH’s Audit Committee and as Chairperson of the Compensation Committee of IMH’s Board of Directors. In 2019, Ms. Wittman joined the boards of Freehold Properties and NetSTREIT Corp., and she chairs the audit committees of both companies. Ms. Wittman received her MBA with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago, and her Master of City Planning in Housing and Real Estate Finance degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ronald Marston

“Good people beget good people”

Anonymous

Mr. Marston has served as a Director since August 2015. Mr. Marston has more than 40 years of experience in international healthcare and is known as an international authority on healthcare systems and trends. In 1973, Mr. Marston joined HCCA International (now Health Care Corporation of America), a subsidiary of Hospital Corporation of America, and was employed there through 1990. In 1980 he was promoted to CEO & Chairman HCA United Kingdom. In 1987, he was promoted to President and CEO of HCA International with responsibility for all development and operations internationally. Under Mr. Marston’s leadership, HCA International grew to include 10 hospitals and seven nursing homes in the United Kingdom; 10 hospitals in Australia; five hospitals and 55 clinics in Central and South America; a management contract for the restructuring of the Singapore General Hospital; a commissioning and management contract for the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and the longest-standing recruitment contract in Saudi Arabia. Hospital Corporation of America sold HCA International in 1989 after the company elected to go private. After the sale, Mr. Marston and his management team acquired certain assets and management contracts, and he became the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the resulting privately held company, Health Care Corporation of America, doing business as HCCA International, where he was CEO and President, positions he held until 2010. He sold his interest in HCCA International in 2010 and then started two companies of his own, Southern Manor Living Centers LLC and HCCA Management Company. Mr. Marston was the Founder and served as CEO of Southern Manor Living Centers LLC, three assisted living facilities in Tennessee (which he sold in November 2019) and HCCA Management Company, where he is Founder and CEO doing business in the international healthcare industry.

Mr. Marston’s previous experience was with Vanderbilt University and Medical Center from 1968 to 1973. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was responsible for the training and administration of the 400-bed Twelfth Evacuation Hospital located in Cu Chi, Republic of Vietnam, and was a graduate of the US Army Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia. Mr. Marston holds a BA from Tennessee Technological University; a Certificate in Healthcare Administration from the Academy of Health Service; and a PhD in management from California Western University.

Matthew Cypher, Ph.D

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”

Dwayne Johnson

Dr. Cypher has served as a Director since March 2016. In July 2012, Dr. Cypher joined the faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as Director of the Real Estate Finance Initiative (since April 2015, the Steers Center for Global Real Estate). He serves as a Professor of Real Estate at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and tailors coursework to teach the Four Quadrants of the real estate capital markets—public, private, debt and equity. From 2005 to 2012, he served as a Director at Invesco Real Estate where he was responsible for oversight of the underwriting group, which acquired $10.2 billion worth of institutional real estate during his leadership tenure. Dr. Cypher personally underwrote $1.5 billion of acquisitions culminating with the purchase of 230 Park Avenue in New York City, which Invesco acquired on behalf of its client capital in June 2011. He also oversaw the valuations group, which marked to market Invesco’s more than $13 billion North American portfolio, and served as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Investment Strategy Group. He has held positions as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Cypher holds a BA from Penn State University and a master’s and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University.

Jeffrey Busch

“Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self.”

Bill Gates

Mr. Busch has been a Director since September 2014. Mr. Busch has served as Chief Executive Officer of our Company since August 2017. His experience includes developing numerous properties in various asset classes, owning and managing real estate in several states, including rental housing, and a wide variety of commercial real estate. Since 2001, Mr. Busch has also served as President of Safe Blood International Foundation, where he oversees the establishment of medical facilities in 35 developing nations, funded by the CDC and USAID, Exxon Mobil and the Gates Foundation. Mr. Busch has had presidential appointments in two presidential administrations, one in the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs and the other at the United Nations in Geneva, where he served as a United States delegate. Mr. Busch served as a director of American Pacific Bankcorp, Inc. (APB) through February 2020. Mr. Busch holds a BA from New York University in the Stern School of Business, a Master of Public Administration degree from New York University and a JD from Emory University.

Jamie Barber

Mr. Barber is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the Company and was appointed by the Board of Directors effective May 8, 2017. Mr. Barber has more than a decade of experience as legal counsel with responsibilities for SEC compliance and reporting matters, corporate governance, investment banking operations and REIT-related capital markets. From July 2012 to May 2017, Mr. Barber was Associate General Counsel at FBR & Co. where he assisted with SEC compliance, corporate governance and was Primary Counsel for investment banking operations. From August 2004 to June 2012 he served as Senior Associate – REIT Capital Markets at Hunton & Williams LLP, where he represented public REITs in conjunction with their SEC compliance requirements, corporate governance matters, offerings of equity and debt and merger and acquisition transactions. From September 2003 to August 2004 he served as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he represented issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.

Mr. Barber received his Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University School of Law in 2003. In 1999 he received his Bachelor of Science, Accounting and Finance from Indiana University.

Danica Holley

Ms. Holley has served as our Chief Operating Officer since March 30, 2016. Ms. Holley’s business development and management experience spans more than 18 years with an emphasis on working in an international environment. She has extensive experience in international program management, government procurement, and global business rollouts and start-ups. As Executive Director for Safe Blood International Foundation, from April 15, 2008 to present, she oversaw national health initiatives in Africa and Asia, including an Ebola response project. Ms. Holley has held management positions as Director of Strategy, Corporate Business Development for WorldSpace, Inc. from 1997 to 2000, Director of Marketing for Corporate and Business at ISI Professional Services from 2000 to 2001 and Director of Administration at Tanzus Development from 1996 to 1997 and SK&I Architectural Design Group, LLC from 2003 to 2007. Ms. Holley has more than a decade of experience managing multinational teams for complex service delivery across disciplines.

She received a BSFS degree from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in International Law, Politics and Organization, and an African Studies Certificate and Arabic Proficiency (May 1994). She studied International Organization at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont, and Rabat, Morocco (January – June 1993). She is an ICF-certified executive leadership coach and an alumna of Georgetown University’s Graduate Leadership Coaching Program (September 2010).

Robert J. Kiernan

Mr. Kiernan is a financial executive with 30 years of successful experience in financial accounting, reporting and management. He joined the Company in August 2017 as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Kiernan’s experience includes initial and secondary public offerings, business combinations, quarterly, annual and other filings with the SEC, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements. His extensive management and accounting experience has focused in the financial services industry, including broker dealers, mortgage REITs and investment funds.

Prior to becoming Global Medical REIT, Inc.’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Kiernan served as Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of FBR & Co. (“FBR” NASDAQ: FBRC) commencing in October 2007. Prior to joining FBR, Mr. Kiernan served as Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. (“Arlington Asset” NYSE: AI) commencing in April 2003. Prior to joining Arlington Asset, Mr. Kiernan was a Senior Manager in the assurance practice at Ernst & Young.

Mr. Kiernan holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting degree, Cum Laude, from Mount St. Mary’s University (1987) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.