In his 30-Year Tenure as President and CEO of RiverSpring Living, Daniel founded the nation’s first elder abuse shelter and senior living’s fine art museum, multiple intergenerational initiatives, and New York City’s first luxury life plan community. Hear how Hebrew Home at Riverdale’s visionary programs are being replicated across the country.

About Daniel

Daniel Reingold, M.S., J.D. is President and Chief Executive Officer of RiverSpring Living, a leading non-profit senior care organization with a century of history and leadership, which includes the operation of the renowned Hebrew Home at Riverdale. Under his tenure, the non-profit has grown significantly, generated by the development of innovative and much-needed care solutions for older adults—including managed long-term care, assisted living, senior housing, and rehabilitation services.

As a passionate advocate for older adults, Reingold and his team opened the Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse Prevention, the nation’s first elder abuse shelter, in 2005. Reingold’s vision also includes the development of intergenerational initiatives. Project HOPE (Healthcare Offers Permanent Employment) is a unique program that provides students with the opportunity to complete their education while developing job skills. Students spend a large portion of each day at work sites around the Hebrew Home, trained by staff and building connections with Hebrew Home residents.

Reingold has become a highly visible presence on the national level, having testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and attending the 2015 White House Conference on Aging.

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Proud industry disruptor John Gonzales, SVP of Consulting at Haven Senior Investments and President at Haven Senior Living, has been involved in every aspect of the business of aging well. Listen to his opinions on a healthcare versus hospitality approach, solutions for the middle market, and how to use social media to attract prospective staff and residents.

About John

John Gonzales has over 30 years of successful and progressive experience in the senior housing industry holding a succession of facility, regional and corporate level positions including Executive Director, Director of Marketing, Regional Manager, Director of Operations, Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer. He brings a depth of experience to a broad range of senior housing environments including Independent, Assisted Living, Alzheimer’s and Skilled Care.

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The founder of the Ageful Living blog and a passionate advocate for the positive aging movement shares her opinions on empowered aging, caregiver support, and the tipping point of public awareness on ageism.

About Jeanette

Jeanette Leardi is a social gerontologist, community educator, writer, editor, public speaker, and aging wellness leader who has a passion for older adult empowerment. She finds special personal fulfillment in helping Boomers and older generations share their wisdom.

Leardi’s decades of experience as the primary caregiver to both of her parents changed her perception about the aging process and inspired her encore career. She wanted to help people appreciate elders’ inherent dignity, wisdom, and unique value as mentors and catalysts for social change. She accomplishes this through her publications, presentations and classes in journaling, spiritual writing, memoir writing, brain fitness, health literacy, ageism, intergenerational communication, creativity, and caregiver support.

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About Keren

Keren Etkin is the founder of TheGerontechnologist.com, a media platform that covers the global age-tech ecosystem and offers online courses through the AgeTech Academy, and the founder/director of AgeLabIL at Shenkar college in Israel, an interdisciplinary R&D center focusing on age-tech.

Named one of the most influential people in aging, Etkin is a sought-after public speaker and advisor for age-tech startups, investors in the longevity economy, care providers and organizations who work on innovation in aging. Previously, Etkin was the first employee at Intuition Robotics, maker of ElliQ, a pioneering social robot designed with and for older adults, and co-founder & VP of Product at Sensi.ai, a startup that developed the first artificial intelligence solution for remote care monitoring. She holds an M.A. in Gerontology and a B.Sc. in Life Sciences from Ben-Gurion University.

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As the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Primetime Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund, Abby Levy builds companies from the ground up. Learn about the visionaries improving quality of life for older adults.

About Abby

Abby Miller Levy has spent her career helping businesses and consumer brands grow as an operator, entrepreneur, and advisor, most notably in the wellness sector. Prior to Primetime Partners, she was Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth at SoulCycle, where she oversaw business development and revenue growth outside the consumer studio business, with an emphasis on building new digital products.

Abby teamed with Arianna Huffington to launch Thrive Global, a behavior change technology company focused on employee productivity and wellness. Abby served as President of Thrive Global and remains on the Thrive Board. Abby began her career at McKinsey & Company then led product development at OXO International. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

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The founder and CEO of Chelsea Place Senior Care and senior living podcaster on why he is bullish on adult day care as a cost-effective alternative to assisted living or home care, and the value of a good laugh.

About Kris

An entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in senior care, Kris Chana’s personal mission is to give older adults hope and a sense of purpose that helps them live their best life. Chelsea Place Senior Care (named after his wife, Chelsea) includes adult day care, private in-home care services, and assisted living.

Kris is the host of “The CAREpreneur” podcast and the show, “Senior Care Uncensored” which take people behind the scenes of a growing senior care organization. Kris documents exciting adventures that include taking seniors parasailing, flying, air boating, motorcycling, riding in mustang convertible, and much more.

A graduate from the University of Florida with a BS in Business Administration, Kris and his wife owned, operated, and lived in an assisted living facility for the first 3 ½  years of their marriage.

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As Partner and COO of Charter Senior Living, Jayne oversees 41 communities in seven states. Find out why the company nearly doubled in size in 5 months, and how a flat organization structure allows closer connection to associates, residents, and families.

About Jayne

Jayne Sallerson, a seasoned veteran in the senior living industry, is an investor, partner, and Chief Operating Officer at Charter Senior Living. For the past 25 years, she has served in various senior management roles for both large and small senior living organizations—exposing her to over 750 communities throughout the United States. She has developed and executed sales and operational infrastructures where the net result has been increased revenue, reduced expenses, and improved NOI. Her unique blend of sales and operations experience allows for a balanced approach of driving NOI while keeping customer and employee satisfaction at the core of operating strategies.

Jayne spent seven years as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Emeritus Senior Living prior to the Brookdale merger. She also has experience in software platforms specifically designed for senior housing. Jayne helped launch and was COO of Sherpa CRM, a first of kind CRM built to integrate empathy with sales. She is well-recognized within the senior housing industry and is a frequent presenter on a variety of topics for major national senior living conferences.

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With a winning combination of experience and innovation, Tana Gall is a leading voice in senior living. Listen to her insights gleaned from Merrill Garden’s 70 communities across 20 states, with 4,000 staff members and 7,000 residents, and her vision for moderately priced senior housing.

About Tana

Tana Gall is responsible for all aspects of operations and growth at the 70 Merrill senior living communities in 20 states – Merrill Gardens and Truewood by Merrill. Gall has over 20 years of experience in senior living leadership roles, and she is focused on creating a culture where the team members and residents thrive. Under Gall’s leadership, the company is recognized as one of the most respected providers of senior living in the country. Gall recently led the launch of the Truewood by Merrill communities with a focus on seniors in the underserved middle market.

Gall is an industry icon, serving as a member of the Argentum Board of Directors, and she was previously the head of the Argentum Executive Director Leadership Institute. She is focused on bringing new leadership to the industry and was instrumental in the establishment of the Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living at Washington State University.

Based on her career accomplishments, Gall was asked to join the Bellevue College Healthcare Management and Leadership Advisory Board. She was also invited to join the International Women’s Forum, and was named a Woman of Distinction for 2021 by McKnight’s Senior Living, an award that honors women in senior living who inspire and impact the lives of residents and team members.

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Len Fishman has worn many hats—Director of the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston, CEO of New England’s largest non-profit senior living provider, and CEO/President of LeadingAge. Listen to his reflections on decades of experience in long-term services and support, and predictions on future challenges and opportunities.

About Len

Len Fishman served as director of the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston until his retirement in 2021. The Institute is the research, policy, and public service arm of UMass Boston’s gerontology program, one of the oldest and largest aging studies programs in the world. Its main areas of focus are health and health care, long-term services and support, economic security, productive aging, and demography—with a special emphasis on low-income and minority older adults.

From 2000 to 2012, Len was CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, New England’s largest non-profit provider of senior housing and health care. During his tenure, HSL became an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, serving as the school’s clinical research and academic teaching site in geriatrics.

Before joining HSL, Len was president of Leading Age, in Washington D.C., which represents 6,000 non-profit senior housing and health care providers, serving over two million seniors in the U.S. and Canada.

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Max Winters, Senior Associate at Perkins Eastman and co-host of the Shaping Dementia Environments podcast, talks about the company’s milestones, the importance of the built environment for older adults, solutions for the underserved 80%, and what the future holds for senior living.

About Max

A creative force in the senior living design industry, Max Winters, RA, has pioneered new thinking around aging-in-community approaches, innovative dementia environments, and the transformative role technology will play in the future of aging. A senior associate with Perkins Eastman in Pittsburgh, Max’s curious and compassionate nature has established him as a trusted advisor in the development of both long-term visions for senior living communities and dementia environments.

Max’s research and ideas have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Environments for Aging, and McKnight’s Senior Living, among others. As co-host of Perkins Eastman’s new Shaping Dementia Environments podcast, Max is helping to bring awareness and spark advocacy for better designed dementia environments in the United States.

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