NEW YORK, NY, October 28, 2024 – Clarion Partners LLC, a leading real estate investment manager, announced today that Julie Robinson has joined the Firm as Managing Director, Head of Healthcare. In this role, she will be responsible for driving the expansion of Clarion's healthcare sector capabilities, with a strong focus on creating, implementing, and scaling strategies in asset classes such as senior living, active adult communities, outpatient medical facilities, and life science hubs.
Julie is an accomplished investor with nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare real estate acquisitions, development, and financing. She joins Clarion having most recently served as Senior Vice President for Ventas, Inc., a leading global real estate investment trust in healthcare. A member of the Ventas senior leadership team, she was responsible for executing Ventas's capital allocation strategy, including real estate acquisitions, ground-up developments, joint venture investments, credit facilities, corporate M&A, and dispositions. Under Robinson's leadership, Ventas closed more than $25 billion in transactions.
Prior to her time with Ventas, she played a lead role in debt financing for the senior housing and skilled nursing industry while at GE Healthcare Financial Services, after beginning her career in GE's highly selective corporate finance programs: Corporate Audit Staff and the Financial Management Program.
“We are thrilled to welcome Julie to Clarion to lead the expansion of our healthcare investing discipline on behalf of our clients," said Clarion's Head of Alternatives, Kim Adams. “She is a highly respected investor, bringing relationships, deep experience, and a strategic vision that we believe will greatly enhance Clarion's focused Alternatives initiative."
Robinson received a B.S. in Finance from Miami University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.