Potential Speakers (not confirmed, none contacted)
Barry Port
CEO & Chairman, The Ensign Group
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Barry Port has led The Ensign Group as CEO since 2019 and became chairman of the board in 2025, overseeing one of the country's largest post-acute care companies, with 373 affiliated skilled nursing and senior living operations across 17 states. Before that, he spent seven years as chief operating officer of Ensign Services, directing field support for its affiliated operations nationwide. He serves on the board of the American Health Care Association and co-chairs Partners Advancing Post-Acute Care. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and master's degrees in business and health services administration from Arizona State University.
Session to be announced.
Jason Murray
Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman, PACS Group
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Jason Murray co-founded PACS Group in 2013 and grew it from two skilled nursing facilities into one of the largest post-acute care platforms in the country, with roughly 390 facilities in 22 states. He took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2024. A licensed nursing home administrator with more than 20 years in acute and post-acute care, he is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and was named Ernst & Young's 2023 Mountain West Entrepreneur of the Year. He holds a master's degree in healthcare administration.
Session to be announced.
Kenny Rozenberg
Founder & CEO, Centers Health Care
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Kenny Rozenberg founded Centers Health Care in 1996 and built it into the largest post-acute care continuum in the Northeast, with 45 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities that touch one million lives each year. His health care career began in 1986 as a volunteer EMT, which led him into skilled nursing facility administration. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yeshiva University and a master's in public health from Columbia University.
Session to be announced.
Clif Porter II
President & CEO, AHCA/NCAL
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Clif Porter became president and CEO of the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living in October 2024, leading the nation's largest association of long term and post-acute care providers. He previously ran the association's government relations department for more than a decade and was named a Top Lobbyist by The Hill in 2023. Porter has spent more than 35 years in the long term care profession, starting out as a nursing home administrator.
Session to be announced.
Bob Kramer
Founder, NIC | Founder & Fellow, Nexus Insights
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Bob Kramer co-founded the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) and served as its president and CEO, building it into the industry's central source of data, research and connections between capital and care providers. He is now a strategic advisor to NIC and founder and fellow of Nexus Insights, a think tank advancing new models of housing and care for older adults. A former Maryland state legislator, he received the McKnight's Pinnacle Career Achievement Award in 2023.
Session to be announced.
Steve Monroe
Partner & Managing Editor, Levin Associates; Editor, The SeniorCare Investor
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Steve Monroe is a partner and managing editor at Levin Associates, where he edits The SeniorCare Investor, the leading newsletter on seniors housing and care mergers and acquisitions, and authors the annual Senior Care Acquisition Report. He has published more than 50 articles on health care and seniors housing investing and is a frequent moderator at the industry's deal-making conferences. Before joining Levin, he was a vice president of investment banking at Kidder, Peabody & Co. He holds an MBA in finance from Columbia University.
Session to be announced.
Matthew Gourmand
President & CEO, Omega Healthcare Investors
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Matthew Gourmand is President and Chief Executive Officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, a publicly traded REIT whose portfolio of more than 1,100 senior care properties makes it the largest dedicated investor in skilled nursing facilities in the U.S. He became CEO in October 2026 after serving as Omega's President and, before that, leading its corporate strategy and investor relations for nearly a decade. Earlier in his career he spent ten years as an equity portfolio manager at Millennium Partners and Stevens Capital Management, following equity research at UBS and audit work at Deloitte. He is a CFA charterholder, holds an LLB from University College London, and qualified as both a Chartered Accountant and a CPA.
Session to be announced.
Barry Munk
CEO, Marquis Health Consulting Services
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Barry Munk is CEO of Marquis Health Consulting Services, a Brick, New Jersey-based firm that supports skilled nursing and senior living facilities across the Northeast with operations, census, financial, referral and compliance management. Under his leadership, Marquis has grown its person-centered subacute rehab and senior care model and built health system partnerships across the region. He was named one of BINJE's Best Health Care Leaders for 2026.
Session to be announced.
Joe Walker
President, Larry H. Miller Senior Health
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Joe Walker is the founding president of Larry H. Miller Senior Health, the senior care platform the Larry H. Miller Company launched in 2024, where he expanded care to more than 24,000 patients in his first year. He previously served as chief strategy officer of Advanced Health Care, a Utah-based skilled nursing, home health and hospice operator. He holds a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a law degree from Georgetown University, and was honored as a 2025 Utah Business Healthcare Hero.
Session to be announced.
Bryon Sehlke
President, Touchstone Communities
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Bryon Sehlke has served as president of Touchstone Communities, a Texas-based operator of skilled nursing and senior care communities, since January 2017. He joined Touchstone in 2009 and first led its real estate development arm as senior vice president. Before entering senior care, he was CEO of Supportkids Inc., the country's largest private child support collection agency. He holds master's degrees in business administration and aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Session to be announced.
Mark Parkinson
Former President & CEO, AHCA/NCAL; 45th Governor of Kansas
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Mark Parkinson led the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living as president and CEO from 2011 until his retirement in January 2025, and was named a top lobbyist by The Hill for 11 consecutive years. He earlier served as the 45th governor of Kansas (2009-2011) and as lieutenant governor, after co-founding and operating elder care facilities in Kansas and Missouri. He graduated first in his class from the University of Kansas School of Law.
Session to be announced.
Brandon Ribar
President & CEO, Sonida Senior Living
Potential speaker - not confirmed
Brandon Ribar has been president and CEO of Sonida Senior Living, one of the nation's largest senior living providers with 95 communities in more than 20 states, since September 2022. He joined Sonida as chief operating officer in 2019, where he drove operating model improvements, portfolio divestitures and a recapitalization. Earlier, he oversaw 305 skilled nursing and assisted living centers across 21 states as senior vice president of operations at Golden Living and managed health care investments at Fillmore Capital Partners. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University.
Session to be announced.