Jason is the Founder and Managing Partner of Big Sky Medical Real Estate Funds. He has spent his career exclusively in the healthcare real estate industry and is a well-established thought leader in the medical office and senior living sectors. Jason began his career as a civil engineer designing hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee. After graduate school, he ventured into medical office development and found his niche organizing physicians into real estate partnerships. Since then, he has developed or acquired over six million square feet of healthcare real estate in 19 states valued in excess of $1.6 billion. Jason prides himself on his hands-on approach and his deep understanding of the underlying drivers of value.

Prior to starting Big Sky, Jason founded Caddis Partners, LLC in early 2008 and was its CEO, largest shareholder, and sole managing partner from its inception until May of 2020. During his tenure, Jason grew Caddis from a small boutique developer to one of the largest Healthcare Real Estate platforms in the United States with over 60 professionals spread amongst its four offices. Modern Healthcare consistently ranked Caddis one of the top ten Healthcare Real Estate developers in the United States by annual deal volume.

In 2016, Jason was voted by a panel of his peers the national Healthcare Real Estate Executive of the Year by Healthcare Real Estate Insights and was awarded Most Admired CEO for North Texas from the Dallas Business Journal in 2019. Jason serves on several boards including the Folsom Institute at SMU, Texas A&M Mays Business School Real Estate Advisory Board, and The Real Estate Council (TREC). He is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and Ernst and Young named him as a finalist for the EY 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Jason currently serves alongside his wife, Jean, as co-chair of Highland Park Education Foundation’s annual fundraising campaign (Mad for Plaid). He is the past Chairman for the Texas Business Hall of Fame and is a past President of the Dad’s Club for University Park Elementary School. Through his work with Habitat for Humanity, Jason became passionate about housing and education for those in need. He dedicates his time and financial support to affordable housing and scholarships to deserving students. Jason graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, where he served as president of his class, graduated with honors, and was the recipient of the Cox School of Business Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Raised in the Texas Hill Country, he enjoys ranching, fly fishing and spending time with his wife, two children, and three dogs.

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.

Steven A. Kaye is a partner in the Healthcare Real Estate, Office, Leasing and Construction Practices. He is co-chair of the Real Estate Practice and co-leader of the Healthcare Real Estate Team.

Mr. Kaye focuses his practice on real estate activities, such as the acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of projects. His clients include owners, developers and users of office buildings, medical offices and other healthcare facilities, data centers, shopping centers and industrial properties. Mr. Kaye has significant experience representing real estate investment trusts (REITs), non-traded REITs and private equity funds in connection with their portfolio and recapitalization transactions.

Prior to joining AGG, Mr. Kaye practiced in Philadelphia and Minneapolis.

Featured Experience

Represented Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II and REIT III, each a non-traded REIT, in connection with its acquisition and financing of various regulated healthcare facilities, including individual and portfolios of assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, long term acute care hospitals and surgical centers. Each transaction utilized a complex structure involving a master lease, multiple subleases, guaranties, letters of credit and inter-creditor agreements. Certain transactions utilized a RIDEA structure.

Represent a Dallas-based private equity firm in connection with its joint venture investment with various regional and national developers and co-investors for the development, acquisition and financing of healthcare real estate assets, including medical office buildings, LTACHs and senior housing properties.

Represent leading regional full-service eye care provider in connection with its real estate facility leasing, acquisition and finance transactions.

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Education

Northwestern University Law School, Juris Doctorate, 1990

University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts, 1987

Admissions

State of Georgia

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania