Atlanta Healthcare Leadership Forum

Christine Gorham, CCIM, has been CEO and Partner of Eastwood Real Estate Services, LLC since 2010. Christine has over 26 years of medical operations experience, with over 16 of those years focused in the real estate sector of healthcare, 10 of those years with the Northside Hospital System in Atlanta, making her a uniquely qualified professional. She gained valuable insight into the inner-workings of primary care, ambulatory surgery centers, long term VA care facilities, home health, and hospital systems. In the medical real estate arena she has asset managed, leased from both the Landlord and Tenant positions, construction/project managed, site selected, and property managed. She directed a national portfolio, heavily concentrated in healthcare, for SRS Investments, LLC, a private investment company. She was responsible for all asset management details which included oversight of leasing, property management, budgeting, marketing, taxes, capital improvements, as well as assisting with due diligence for acquisitions, investor relationships, and lender activities. Christine has leased over 3,500,000 square feet of medical, dental, veterinary, office, and retail real estate. Christine currently serves as a Director in her second year on the CREW Network Board (an organization of nearly 10,000 members in the U.S. and Canada) and as Past President of CREW Atlanta (an organization of appx 375 members). She was honored with the 2015 Shining Light Award by CREW Atlanta, an annual selection which is presented to Georgians who have inspired the lives of others through their service. She was named one of Atlanta’s Top 40 Most Powerful Women in Commercial Real Estate by BISNOW and Who’s Who in the Top 100 Influential Leaders in Commercial Real Estate by Atlanta Business Chronicle, both in 2014. She has spoken at several medical real estate conferences and has written articles for real estate publications related to healthcare real estate. She has been active in several national and local organizations including CREW Network (2016 & 2015 Board of Directors, 2014-2015 Education Committee and 2013 Nominating Committee), CREW Atlanta (2014 President, 2013 National Delegate, 2010 Co-Chair and 2008 Graduate of CREW Leadership), Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors (2016 Mentor, Community Service and Government Affairs Committees, 2015 & 2014 Diversity Initiative Committee, 2015 Higher Education Outreach Co-Chair, 2014 & 2013 Board of Directors), 2015 Empire Board of Realtists Commercial Council – Broker Apprentice Program Mentor, Dental Resource Partners, Healthcare Solutions Resource Forum, Atlanta and North Fulton chapters of the Medical Management Association, and Women In Healthcare. She has participated in Georgia Dental Association and Georgia Veterinary Medical Association events. Christine has a B.S.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from Slippery Rock University and is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designee.

Lee Asher is a Vice Chairman of the Investment Properties division and co-leads the CBRE Healthcare Capital Markets Group with his business partner Chris Bodnar. Mr. Asher is responsible for execution of the team’s medical office and healthcare sale-leaseback assignments, strategy and positioning of offerings, coordination of the financial and underwriting processes, and oversight of the due diligence process. Since joining CBRE, Mr. Asher has been an integral part in the sale of more than 50 million square feet of office properties valued at more than $12.0 billion. Mr. Asher has the unique ability to combine his sophisticated financial engineering techniques and review-based intimacy of due diligence materials into the overall marketing process. Mr. Asher has assisted on transactions involving all investment property classes, ranging from $1.0 billion portfolios to $1.0 million single-property assets. Before joining the Healthcare Capital Markets Group, he was a member of the Atlanta Institutional Group – Office Properties and the former Managing Director of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions for CBRE’s Financial Consulting Group (FCG), a team that provides financial and analytical consulting to the firm’s capital markets teams and clients. Prior to joining CBRE, Asher was co-founder and COO of iTendant, Inc., a provider of service request and maintenance software to commercial building owners and operators.

Tunrola Odelowo is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate, Healthcare Real Estate Practices, and Alternative and Renewable Energy practices. Ms. Odelowo’s practice includes the representation of owners, developers, equity investors and lenders in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition, development, and financing of office buildings, industrial properties, apartment projects, medical office buildings, assisted living facilities, and mixed use assets located across the United States. Ms. Odelowo also has significant experience assisting solar developers in the acquisition and leasing of real property for renewable energy projects, including the drafting and negotiation of purchase options, options to lease, ground leases, and curing title and survey issues. Ms. Odelowo is a member of the board of directors of New American Pathways. Prior to AGG, Ms. Odelowo practiced in New York and New Jersey. Representative Experience  Represent Griffin-American Healthcare REIT III, Inc., a non-traded REIT, in connection with its acquisition, financing, and leasing of various regulated healthcare facilities, including individual and portfolio assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, long-term acute care hospitals and surgical centers. Each transaction utilizes a complex structure involving a master lease, multiple subleases, guaranties, letters of credit, and inter-creditor agreements. Certain transactions involve a RIDEA structure.  Represent a leading renewable energy company in the acquisition and ground leasing of real property for solar development.  Represent REIT in the acquisition and financing of assisted living facilities in multiple jurisdictions in the United States. Each transaction included a lease of the operations of the facilities to an unaffiliated third-party operator and manager.  Represent full service commercial real estate company in the refinancing and sale of assets in its portfolio.  Represent a private developer in connection with the development and financing of multiple affordable housing transactions with multiple financing sources including state, federal, and historic tax credits. 2  Represent leading regional full-service eye care provider in connection with real estate acquisitions including drafting required reciprocal easement agreements for the use and operation of the real property.  Represented national banking institution in connection with its branch expansion across the Northeastern United States handling all aspects of ground lease negotiation, drafting and execution.  Represented multifamily investment and management firm in the acquisition and financing of multifamily apartment complexes in Florida and Texas.  Represented owner of office buildings located in Georgia and Florida in connection with negotiation and execution of tenant leases. Education: Juris Doctorate, Howard University School of Law, 2002 Master of Business Administration, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012 Bachelor of Arts, University of Western Ontario, 1999 Admissions: State of Georgia, 2012 State of New Jersey, 2007 State of New York, 2003 Languages: Yoruba