Realion Inc. Adds Board Members

Fredric “Rick” Nelson

NEW YORK CITY— Everest Medical Core Properties LLC , a subsidiary of Realion Inc. , a Delaware C corporation, revealed that it has appointed three new members to Realion’s board of Directors. Joining David Lynn , PhD, chairman of the board of directors are Fredric “Rick” Nelson and Robert H. Zerbst . Dr. Zerbst has more than 31 years of experience in real estate investment management, research and education. He joined CBRE Investors as president in 1997. Dr. Zerbst also served as the CEO at CBRE Global Investors (formerly CB Richard Ellis Investors LLC) from 1998 to 2007 and its Chairman from 2007 to 2008. He is a past board member of NAREIT and chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers. He holds the CRE and MAI professional designations and holds a B.A. from Miami University and an MA in Economics, an MBA and a PhD in Finance and Real Estate Economics from Ohio State University. Frederic “Rick” Nelson is principal at Syzygy Advisors LLC , managing Nelson family office assets across multiple strategies, including public equity and fixed income. Prior to Syzygy, Rick served as CIO with Commonfund, where he was responsible for oversight of Commonfund’s equity and fixed income programs as well as the outsourced solutions business. Before joining Commonfund, Nelson was vice chairman and chief investment officer of ING Investment Management Americas , New York from 2003 to 2009, where he led more than 300 professionals managing over $165 billion in assets. He was a member of ING Investment Management Committee, Insurance Americas Asset Liability Committee, ING Group Management Council, and director of ING Mutual Funds. While at ING he created the multi-asset strategy and solutions group which combined asset allocation, liability modeling, risk management and financial engineering skills to deliver consultative solutions and multi-asset portfolios for clients. Nelson earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Business from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. “We are very pleased to welcome Rick and Robert to our Board of Directors,” says Dr. Lynn. “Their financial acumen and proven business leadership, as well as their past experience in real estate investment management will serve the Company well.” As GlobeSt.com previously reported , Everest Medical Core Properties recently purchased Fort Wright Center , a single-story class B off-campus outpatient health center medical office building in Fort Wright, KY, which is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Fort Wright Center contains approximately 117,000, of which 60% is leased to The Christ Hospital, an investment grade rates tenant. In discussing that deal, Dr. Lynn noted that the firm was pleased to have developed a deep pipeline of off-market and limited market high-quality medical office buildings. Everest Medical Core Properties is an institutional real estate manager focusing on medical core real estate properties across the US. Its mission is to provide high current and total returns to institutional and individual investors by acquiring high-quality medical office properties throughout the country. Everest offers over 100 years of combined principal commercial real estate and finance experience with major companies including AIG, Avalon Bay, Cole Capital, HTA and Simon Property Group.