Pilar B. Carvajal. CEO and Founder of Innovation Senior Living and

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Mrs. Carvajal is a leading innovator in the senior housing industry. As founder and CEO, she oversees all aspects of the company and is actively involved in operations and growth. Mrs. Carvajal has deep experience managing businesses that incorporate affordability, residential and health care facets. Mrs. Carvajal demonstrates both excellence in using government programs to subsidize services for fixed-income seniors and innovation in providing sensible living solutions for middle-income seniors.

She is a social impact entrepreneur committed to her vision of making the middle market mainstream by creating innovative solutions to serve this demographic.

Prior to creating Innovation Senior Living, Mrs. Carvajal was the COO for Mia Senior Living Solutions. For fifteen years she oversaw nationwide strategic development and day-to-day operations for the affordable assisted living and adult day communities the company managed. Prior to her senior living career, Mrs. Carvajal worked as a management consultant for the management consulting firm of Accenture in New York City.

Mrs. Carvajal has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. She is a Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Business Program Alumni and Miami and Winter Park Chamber of Commerce Leadership Graduate. She is also a graduate from the SBA Emerging Leaders program. She currently sits on the Florida Senior Living Association (FSLA) Board and serves on the Senior Living 100 Advisory Board. She served on the NIC Fall Conference Committee from 2020 to 2022. She was a Mentor in the Argentum Women in Leadership Program in 2023.

Mrs. Carvajal is a regular speaker about middle market senior living. She has been seen on the stages of National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) Main Stage and Innovation Labs, Senior Living 100, Florida Leading Age, Argentum, Interface, Urban Land Institute (UHI), American Society on Aging, Florida Senior Living Association (FSLA) and Florida Assisted Living Association (FALA).

In March 2017, Mrs. Carvajal received a “Key to the County” from the Miami-Dade Beacon Council. In 2019, Mrs. Carvajal was inducted into the inaugural McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor and awarded The Commonwealth Institute Top 10 Women-Leaders in Florida Awards two years in a row. In 2022, she was nominated to WBL, Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Health Care Industry Foundation. In 2024, she was featured as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of Orlando for 2024.

Mrs. Carvajal is an advocate of education, arts and culture and is an avid art collector. She is a worldwide traveler with her husband, son and daughter. She sits on the Board of Trustees for the Opera Orlando. She is a mentor for Support Our Scholars, where she provides financial and emotional support to disadvantaged young women with extraordinary potential during their college journey.