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Amy Cole, LVN -Managing Director, Licensed RCFE Administrator. Medical/ Healthcare. Amy has more than 10 years experience working on diverse healthcare environments, including assisted living and independent living communities. She also worked in urgent care and hospital settings. Amy has directed numerous Assisted Living Communities and Senior Centers , including flagship and Signature Properties in southern CA. She recently worked to complete a health center in Orange County. She has a rare eye for resident relations and staff operations, ensuring the highest level of customer service and care.
Larry Mangel - Visionary Founder - President - Larry has been involved in integrative health for over 20 years. Originally, he owned Yoga studios in the Philadelphia area, as well as head instructor. He expanded his interest with the study of Ayurvedic medicine which he has been practicing for over 12 years and received his board certification from NAMA, The National Ayurvedic Medical Assoc. as a professional member in 2014. He has extensively studied and taught yoga, pranayama. meditation and Ayurveda which is a path of integrated health.
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He has broad business experience and before pursuing this path was the CEO of Cerealart Projects. www.cerealart.com
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Larry is also President of the Pennsylvania Ayurvedic Medical Association. Additional bio:
John DeWald - Project Development
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John DeWald is the principal at RhodesMoore and John DeWald and Associates, development companies that focus on infill projects on difficult sites. John’s expertise is creative lifestyle communities that implement sustainable solutions to urban and rural redevelopment. John has worked on both self-initiated development projects and for fee development support. He creates the project’s programs, concepts, entitlement and financial strategy and manages all aspects from site selection to operation including site acquisition, financing, entitlement, design and permitting, construction, stabilization and operation.
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INSPIRATION AND ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Dr. Ramkumar Kutty - Founder of The Punarnava Ayurveda Trust and VaidyagramaCommunity Trust in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Dr. David Frawley - World renown Ayurvedic scholar, author, educator and founder of the American Institute of Vedic Studies. He works with multiple Ayurvedic institutions including: The Chopra Center (where he is a Master Educator); Kerala Ayurveda Academy (where he is a primary advisor and teacher);The Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda, and The National Ayurvedic Medical Assoc. (where he has been one of the four main advisors since its inception in 2000).
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Heather Grzych - MA(Ayur), NAMA Board Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner. Heather is the author of The Ayurvedic Guide to Fertility and sits on the National Ayurvedic Medical Assoc. Board of Directors.
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Dr. Jayagopal Parla - BAMS, MD (Ayurveda) in Long Beach, CA. CMT, MAOM. Jay has more than 19 years of experience in Ayurvedic practice and teaching. He is a professor of Ayurvedic medicine at American University of Complementary Medicine, Beverly Hills, California. He is also a visiting faculty member at Southern California University of Health Sciences, Whittier, California and Japan School of Ayurveda, Tokyo,
Bob Steinberg is a partner in the Century City, LA office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Steinberg is a member of the firm's Litigation & Trial Department as well as former Global Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and current Chair of Latham’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Practice. Mr. Steinberg’s contributions to the group’s strategic initiatives, including the development of its PTAB capabilities, were featured in an article in The Recorder, an ALM publication.
Richard Jaffe practices in the area of corporate finance with an emphasis on private equity law. Richard focuses on advising Funds on control and non-control investments, fund formation and operation, divestitures, corporate finance and venture capital financing, particularly in the alternative energy, technology and manufacturing industries. Richard regularly represents private equity funds and other investors and strategics in corporate transactions and advises business owners and PE portfolio companies on raising capital to grow and exit their companies.
Dov Sugarman is a recognized thought leader in Aging. He is currently a co-founder at Avia Empowered Living, whose solutions enable older adults to age in place by converting neighborhoods into connected communities, through optimized technology powered by personalized services and opportunities for meaningful social engagement. His 20-plus-year career includes launching Secure Senior Connections with Richard Burke (United Healthcare), founding Mediterranean Towers Ventures, the only fund in Israel that invests exclusively in AgeTech-focused companies. Dov is the Aging 2.0 Ambassador for Israel and a mentor at Techstars Future of Longevity Accelerator. He has presented at many international conferences, contributed to a textbook on aging in place and frequently consults with entrepreneurs in the AgeTech space in Israel and abroad. Dov was a licensed nursing home administrator in Oregon and Washington. He has an MPH from Oregon State University in Health Policy and Management with a focus on Long Term Care, and a BS and MS in Nutrition from Bastyr University.
Architecture
Martin Zünkeler
principal / architect
bau10 architecture
2010 Wilshire Blvd, suite 1005
Los Angeles, CA 90057
phone : 323 660 5505
cell : 310 462 4959