Our executive leadership group has extensive experience in healthcare. Many are former administrators and executive leaders with decades of day-to-day experience managing and growing a premier regional skilled nursing brand. All are experts in their field and share a commitment to industry best practices.
Our Team
Our support team includes experienced underwriters, analysts and leaders in clinical and operations management. Their insight and practical experiences help them to predict performance and to identify and monitor early indicators of distress. This allows us to move quickly and decisively to grow and improve portfolio performance and value.
Executive Leadership
Chaim Rajchenbach
Co-Founder / Managing Director
With an eye for opportunity, Chaim is focused on Cascade Capital’s growth – through acquisition, financial performance, and leadership development. Over the course of his career, Chaim has led several complex acquisitions and launched multiple successful healthcare companies, including Legacy Healthcare, of which he was an integral piece of its transformation into a premier SNF brand. Now, as Managing Director of Cascade Capital, his priorities and passion are focused on deal sourcing, business development, and creating a high-performing, agile executive team capable of exceeding expectations in a fast-paced, dynamic market.
Menachem “Nachy” Shabat
Co-Founder / Managing Director
Nachy has been an integral piece in the formation of several successful healthcare companies, including Legacy Healthcare. He is an accomplished operations leader and has honed his management skills on the frontlines of facility administration at Legacy Healthcare. His expertise in operations, quality initiatives, regulatory requirements and patient satisfaction, provides the vision and leadership necessary to recruit, evaluate and engage high-performing operators. As Managing Director, Nachy plays a key role in Cascade Capital’s strategic planning, and in nurturing operator/lessee relationships.
Ben Shibe
EVP / Chief Investment Officer
Ben has been with Cascade since its launch in 2016. He is involved in all aspects of deal negotiations and has also helped build the company’s financial and asset management systems. Prior to joining Cascade, he worked for a single-family office and hedge fund where he served as the Director of Analysis and led the group’s real estate operations. Ben is a CFA® charter-holder and holds degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In addition to his role with Cascade, Ben also serves as Chief Investment Officer for Cascade’s Family Office and its private equity affiliate, Cane Investment Partners.
Mordy Kaplan
EVP / General Counsel
As Cascade General Counsel, Mordy’s primary focus is on the negotiation, structuring and documentation of acquisitions. Prior to joining Cascade, Mordy worked for Gutnicki LLP, a boutique Chicago-based healthcare transactional firm. Mordy has vast experience in all aspects and types of healthcare transactions including mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law, and health care licensure. He earned his J.D., from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he received a Certificate in Business Law and was an Executive Editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review.
Yitzy Rosenblum
EVP of Acquisitions
Yitzy has been with Cascade since its launch in 2016. Skilled at building and nurturing business relationships, Yitzy oversees Cascade acquisitions, leasing and divestiture activity. Prior to joining in January of 2016, Yitzy developed an extensive background in healthcare marketing, admissions, and business development and later pivoted into the area of mergers and acquisitions in 2014. While working with multiple skilled nursing operators, Yitzy facilitated and directed expansion efforts by identifying strategic opportunities, focusing on those with untapped value within their markets. Yitzy began his career at a well-known post-acute care provider in New York as Director of Marketing and Business Development, where he earned a reputation for transforming the census and financial performance at troubled facilities.
Moti Ninio
EVP of Financial Operations & Acquisitions
Prior to assuming his duties as Chief Financial Officer for Legacy Healthcare and the Director of Financial Operations and Acquisitions for Cascade Capital Group, Moti was the Controller at Legacy Healthcare, LLC. In this role, he developed extensive relationships with both lenders and healthcare operators and closed over $1 billion in financing for assets in various states. He has a thorough knowledge of underwriting and an innate understanding of the numerous regulatory, financial and clinical aspects of managing healthcare operations. Moti received his Masters in Accounting from Northeastern Illinois University.
Daniel Garden
EVP / General Counsel
As Cascade General Counsel, Daniel oversees the company’s legal work including financial transactions and general corporate matters. He brings with him a proven capacity to handle all the nuances of real estate, corporate and contract law, including health care licensure and compliance, while still maintaining a focus on the company’s overall business objectives. Daniel received his B.A., cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago, and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Eli Davis
EVP of Special Projects
Eli’s diverse background in banking, tax liens, healthcare investments and SNFs provide a unique perspective to Cascade’s investment process. In addition to his role at Cascade, Eli is the Managing Partner of Cane Investment Partners which invests in the healthcare industry and alternative investments.
Transaction & Operations Support
Daniel Rogala
SVP of Asset Management
Dan’s experience at Sabra Healthcare and Ventas provides a unique insight in nursing home asset management. Dan oversees value maximization of healthcare real estate assets through strategic planning, diligent financial review, on-site market research, site visits and reimbursement optimization.
Dana Wikstrom
VP of Asset Management
Dana’s experience with HCR ManorCare and Welcov Healthcare as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (L.N.H.A.), and a multifacility operator, allows him to bring a unique skillset to asset management. His success with turnaround projects has helped him develop creative financial, clinical, and reimbursement-based solutions for his clients.
Matthew Herman
VP of Asset Management
Matthew has fifteen years of experience as a multi-facility operator across the continuum of long term care and provides a valuable operations-based perspective to asset management. Leveraging his oversight of financial regulatory clinical challenges in the industry with Cascade’s market-leading analytics, Matthew assists his clients as they strive to exceed their potential.
Susan Davis
VP of Asset Management
Susan brings a mixture of clinical and operations experience from working with Harborside Healthcare, The VA Maryland Healthcare system and Encore Healthcare. In addition, she adds value with the consulting experience she gained working with for profit and not for profit clients performing operations improvement assessments. Prior to joining Cascade she worked as the Senior Vice President of Operations for SMV Management Company where she gained expertise in health care real estate financing, facility site visits and due diligence for dispositions. She is a Registered Nurse and a Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse. She earned her Masters degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland.
Amanda Colwell
VP of Asset Management
Amanda’s experience with HCR ManorCare as well as two other regional operators as a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator (LNHA) and a multifacility operator allows her to bring a unique skillset to asset management. She has experience in the long term care, skilled post-acute care and independent/assisted living arenas. Prior to joining Cascade, Amanda worked as a Senior Vice President of Operations where she gained expertise in developing strategic financial, clinical and reimbursement- based plans for her clients.
Vlad Milrud
VP of Finance
Vlad has thirteen years of experience in commercial real estate finance and accounting. Throughout his career he has been responsible for financial and investor reporting, sourcing and closing debt financing, and managing the financial aspects of acquisitions and dispositions. Prior to joining Cascade, he worked for a medical office building developer where he served as the Chief Financial Officer and led the group’s finance and accounting operations. Vlad earned his MBA in Accounting with high distinction at Roosevelt University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance at DePaul University.
Anna Lockhart
Chief of Staff
Anna’s experience in project management provides the executive team with priority management, special projects leadership, large cross-company initiatives. Her role focuses on people management and creating systems and processes to streamline operations at Cascade and its affiliate Cane Investment Partners. Anna received her MBA from IIT’s Stuart School of Business.
Michael Bertogli
Senior Director of Underwriting & Analysis
Michael’s experience in financial analysis and underwriting of healthcare operations provides insight on operational improvements to value assets. Michael is proficient in financial statements analysis, financial modeling and forecasting, due diligence and company valuations.
David Northey
Financial Analyst
David assists the asset management and underwriting teams. He provides analytical support of facility financials that are currently under management, and monitors the portfolios in Cascade’s asset management group.
Tom Minch
Financial Analyst
Tom assists both the asset management and acquisitions teams at Cascade Capital Group. In his previous role, Tom worked for Brookfield Properties on the Development Team underwriting potential new developments with a focus on maximizing shareholder value. Tom provides analysis of facility financials currently under management and also performs underwriting on prospective deals.
Benji Berg-Einhorn
Financial Analyst
Benji works with both the asset management and acquisitions teams at Cascade Capital Group. In his previous role, Benji was one of the top performers at Brookfield Properties and played a pivotal role in the asset repositioning of their distressed assets.
Peggy Vicens
Controller
Peggy is an experienced accounting manager with a demonstrated history of working in Real Estate investments. Peggy is skilled in Budgeting, Fixed Assets, GAAP Financial Reporting, Excel, Yardi, MRI, and Account Reconciliation.
Daniella Aryeh
Staff Accountant
Daniella works with both the Asset Management and Accounting teams. She assists in tracking the operator’s compliance as well as manages the monthly reporting for Cascade’s portfolios, including recording the accounts receivables, accounts payables, and cashflow projections.
Maykou Ramirez
Staff Accountant
Maykou has a wide range of accounting experience including working in the healthcare sector, non-profit organizations, and education. She assists and supports the Accounting team with various projects and maintains the financial reporting for Cascade’s portfolios.
Ambreen Melwani
Staff Accountant
Prior to joining Cascade, Ambreen was an accountant at Legacy Healthcare since 2017. She is experienced in month end close processes, year- end audits and preparation of financial statements. She has worked in the long term healthcare industry for over 10 years with experience in finance and accounting. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Finance from DePaul University.
Abigail Deluso
Office Manager/EA to Business Development
Abigail has over 10 years of experience in areas such as new hire onboarding, employee relations, special events, maintaining office facilities and vendor relationships. She supports general office operations and business development.
Patrizia Fuchs
EA to Nachy Shabat
Patrizia has been a member of the Legacy Healthcare family since September of 2014 as Executive Assistant to the Principal. She has a varied background in fundraising, project management and event sales. In 2016, she transitioned to Cascade and continues to support the team with the same skill and dedication.
Lindsey Pate
EA to Chaim Rajchenbach
Lindsey is a seasoned Executive Assistant with over 10 years in the field and has extensive experience having held positions in corporate event planning, medical and business fields. She assists with a variety of duties on behalf of the Principal along with other special projects.