OUR TEAM

Dan Revie has been with Ziegler for over 23 years. As a Managing Director and practice head, he is responsible for the management of the firm’s Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice. Dan specializes in strategic advisory assignments including: mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and recapitalizations for healthcare entities including: skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care facilities, and entrance fee and rental Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)/ Life Plan Communities (LPCs).

During his 20+ years with Ziegler, Dan has completed M&A assignments for public, private, and non-profit organizations. Dan has also been involved with recapitalization assignments for large assisted living and skilled nursing portfolios. He has frequently represented Ziegler’s nonprofit clients with divesting non-core assets. Recently, Dan and his team have been heavily involved with distressed situations in the senior and long-term care living space, including bankruptcies. Dan also has extensive experience with FHA/HUD financing programs.

Dan has been frequently quoted in senior housing and long-term care publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Dan’s background is in accounting. Prior to joining Ziegler he worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as an audit manager, as well as an accounting manager for Northwestern Mutual.

Dan holds undergraduate degrees in both accounting and finance from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Dan has also passed the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. 

K. Nicholas (Nick) Glaisner joined Ziegler in January 2000​. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory engagements for senior living and healthcare providers. Nick has significant transaction experience involving skilled nursing facilities, senior living campuses, CCRCs and home health organizations.

In his 20+ years with Ziegler, he has focused on sell-side transactions involving both public and private healthcare providers. He has participated in over $2.0 billion worth of healthcare, senior living, and long-term care transactions and works closely with Ziegler Finance Corporation using the FHA/HUD 232 LEAN Program to finance  projects for Ziegler clients.

Nick graduated from the University of Wisconsin in December 1999. He holds a B.B.A in Marketing and Finance. He holds a FINRA Series 79 license.

Eric Johnson joined the Senior Housing & Care Finance team at Ziegler in 2019. He specializes in complex structured senior housing transactions, including debt and equity transactions, financial advisory, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Eric has a unique background in finance, market analysis, project management and engineering.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Eric was a senior relationship manager at Bank of the West/BNP Paribas where he was responsible for transaction sourcing, deal execution and for managing relationships with private and institutional healthcare groups across the U.S.

Eric received his Master of Science in real estate finance and construction management from the University of Denver. He also received a Master of Science with an emphasis in structural engineering from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Colorado State University.

Lindsay Konkel joined Ziegler in 2020. Lindsay has an extensive background in FHA-insured loans for both multifamily and seniors housing. As COO, she is responsible for overseeing loan production, underwriting, servicing and asset management of Ziegler’s FHA-insured loan business.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Lindsay was COO of PGIM Real Estate’s FHA and Affordable Lending groups, where she focused on expanding loan originations efforts through talent initiatives, new products and strategic relationships. During her time with PGIM Real Estate, Lindsay served in multiple roles beginning as an underwriter as well as director of operations of the FHA Lending group where she implemented strategies to improve efficiency and quality in all aspects of the business.

Lindsay received a B.S.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of Denver. She is also MAP and LEAN approved.

Humair Sabir is a Managing Director in the Senior Housing and Care Finance team at Ziegler and is based in San Diego, CA. Humair is responsible for originating, developing, and managing the firm’s relationships along with the execution of complex seniors housing and skilled nursing engagements.

Humair has spent his entire career in the seniors housing and care industry and his prior experiences at reputable institutions in the private equity and REIT sectors, allow him to understand his client’s unique needs and goals.

Prior to joining Ziegler in 2023, Humair was a Managing Director at Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors, where he was an integral member of the sales team and responsible for originating and executing seniors housing and skilled nursing transactions. Humair also worked for Granite Investment Group, a private equity firm out of Orange County, California, and spent several years at Ventas, Inc. in a variety of different roles, including acquisitions and asset management.

Humair earned a Bachelor of Science in finance with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is also a Level III candidate for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program. Humair continues to author various industry articles and expert publications and is a frequent speaker at regional conferences.

Christopher Utz joined the Healthcare Investment Banking team at Ziegler in 2018. As Managing Director he specializes in complex structured seniors housing transactions, including debt and equity transactions, financial advisory, and mergers and acquisitions. Chris has over 16 years of healthcare banking and finance experience on both the buy-side and the sell-side.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Chris was a Managing Director at Pinta Capital Partners where he was responsible for transaction sourcing, deal execution and the monitoring of portfolio companies. Specifically, he managed the firm’s Senior Housing investment portfolio with over 1,400 beds in the Northeastern United States.

Chris has held corporate finance and banking positions with CIT, Greystone, Fifth Street Finance Corp’s Healthcare Finance Group (HFG), BNY Mellon, and Merrill Lynch where he completed more than 30 corporate finance and private equity related transactions totaling over $3.0 billion in aggregate deal value.

Chris received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and his Bachelor of Science (BS) degree from Ithaca College.

Chris holds his FINRA Series 79 – Investment Banking Representative license.

Robert Gall joined Ziegler in 2019.  As a director in the Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice, he brings over 18 years of investment banking experience working with both not-for-profit and for-profit senior living organizations in the Southeastern United States. 

Prior to joining Ziegler, Rob had a successful career at HJ Sims.  There he provided investment banking and advisory services to clients in the Southeastern United States and serving as the lead relationship banker in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.  Rob worked with a spectrum of clients, from start-up communities to investment grade rated organizations.

Since 2002, Rob has completed more than 60 senior living and long-term care financings, totaling more than $2.6 billion. His experience includes structures such as investment grade rated and non-rated bonds, direct bank placements, draw-down fixed rate bonds, bridge loans, mezzanine/subordinate financing, preferred equity, joint venture partnerships, seed capital, lease arrangements, portfolio financing and sale-manage-back transactions.

In addition, he served as the primary lead banker for multiple 142d for-profit tax-exempt bond financings totaling over $480 million. Throughout Rob’s career, he has continued to be on the forefront of creative financing structures to benefit senior living organizations implementing certain growth strategies. 

Rob graduated from the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College with a B.S. degree in finance, and operations and technology management

Clint Miller joined Ziegler in February 2022 as a Director in the Senior Housing and Care Finance Practice. He brings over 15 years of healthcare experience, beginning his career with a large global healthcare software company. Clint has spent the last nine years in banking and finance.

Prior to joining Zeigler, Clint worked at Dwight Capital, where he focused on debt and equity solutions for skilled nursing and private pay senior housing. He was responsible for the origination of FHA, bridge and mezzanine financing for senior housing owner-operators across the U.S.

In addition, Clint was previously a relationship manager for BOK Financial, where he was responsible for transaction sourcing, as well as portfolio management for regional senior housing owner-operators, hospitals, health systems and several institutional clients throughout the southwest.

Clint holds a BS in Management and an MBA in Finance, both from Oklahoma State University.

John Gast joined Ziegler in 2024 as a Vice President in the Senior Housing and Care Finance Practice. In this capacity, John provides transaction support by overseeing the analytical and underwriting efforts, as well as contributing with deal structuring and execution.

Before joining Ziegler, John spent six years at Cambridge Realty Capital, where he specialized in debt solutions for the senior housing and long-term care market. His responsibilities included providing analytical support, underwriting debt transactions, and originating new business for their HUD and bridge loan platforms.

Prior to his time at Cambridge, John worked at Global Logistics Properties (GLP), responsible for the accounting of their industrial real estate investment portfolio. He also served as an assurance associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Detroit, MI.

John holds both a BA and an MS in Accounting from Michigan State University.

Patrick Mallen joined Ziegler in 2020 as a Vice President in the Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice, progressing to Senior Vice President in 2022. Patrick oversees transaction teams, leading analytical and underwriting efforts to ensure efficient and effective transaction execution.

His expertise lies in capital structure advisory and mergers and acquisitions, with a specialized focus on For-Profit and Not-for-Profit skilled nursing and senior housing providers across the continuum of care. Patrick has successfully completed transactions totaling over $5.5 billion since 2010. His current focus includes sell-side M&A advisory, negotiating debt financings for acquisitions, expansions, and refinancings, as well as raising bond financings for non-traditional Not-for-Profits.

Before joining Ziegler, Patrick served as a Vice President at HJ Sims, a private wealth management, investment banking, and institutional services firm. In this role, he provided capital structure advisory services to senior living and healthcare organizations, with a primary emphasis on new construction, expansion projects, and refinancings.

Prior to HJ Sims, Patrick held the position of Senior Analyst at Public Financial Management (PFM), contributing his analytical expertise to structure and price competitive and negotiated municipal bond transactions for various entities, including municipalities, industrial development authorities, and water and sewer authorities.

Patrick earned a BSBA degree in finance with a concentration in accounting from York College of Pennsylvania. Patrick Holds Series 7, 50, and 79 securities licenses.

Dalton Esmond joined Ziegler in 2022 as a Vice President in the Senior Housing & Care Finance Practice. Dalton’s primary responsibilities include transaction structuring, analytical analysis and underwriting support.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Dalton spent six years at BOK Financial and one year in management consulting. While at BOK Financial, he was a relationship manager in the bank’s hospital, health system and senior housing group. He was responsible for managing a sizable commercial credit portfolio, underwriting new transactions and expanding the book of business.

While in management consulting, Dalton designed and created a proprietary commercial loan review system sold to commercial banks.

Dalton received his BSBA in Finance from Oklahoma State University.

Griffin McCombs joined the Senior Housing & Care Finance team at Ziegler in 2023. He works with mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory and capital formation engagements for senior living and healthcare providers. Griffin additionally held a summer analyst position in Ziegler’s Chicago office in 2022.

Prior to Ziegler, Griffin graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Accounting. 

Michael McGinnis joined the Senior Housing & Care Finance team at Ziegler in 2022. He works with mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, and capital formation engagements for senior living and healthcare providers. Since joining Ziegler, Michael has had extensive involvement in providing analytical support for new business origination and deal execution involving both public and private healthcare providers on numerous sell-side transactions, equity raises, and bank direct placements, as well as work with the HUD/FHA, FNMA, and FHLMC financing programs.

Prior to Ziegler, Michael was a financial analyst at Texas Capital Bank where he focused on corporate strategies, new project investments, interest rate forecasting, and capital budgeting. Michael graduated with his B.S. in Accounting and Finance and an M.S. in Finance from Texas Tech University.

Megan Cunningham joined Ziegler in 2022. Her primary responsibilities include executing industry research projects and assisting with research module creation/updates. She gathers data and assists on presentation materials for conferences and speaking engagements, as well as maintaining Ziegler’s library of research materials. Additionally, Megan provides indirect research support to the banking team.

Prior to joining Ziegler, Megan spent several years in marketing at a senior living community in Chicago, as well as online marketing for FTD.com. She has also held positions with Williamson County Schools, Northwestern Mutual, and Revlon International.

Megan graduated from Lake Forest College with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in History.

Jake Sexton joined the Senior Housing and Care Finance Practice at Ziegler in 2022 as an analyst.

Prior to starting full time, Jake previously held a position as a summer intern on the Senior Housing and Care Finance team at Ziegler.

Jake graduated in 2022 with a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University where he also minored in Data Analysis.