Susan Givens has served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of New Senior Investment Group Inc. (NYSE: SNR), a publicly traded healthcare REIT, since the company’s inception in October 2014 and led the company through its separation from Fortress Investment Group in January 2019. Ms. Givens is also a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.
Ms. Givens has over 20 years of real estate, private equity, capital markets, M&A, general management and finance experience. Previously, Ms. Givens was a Managing Director in the Private Equity group at Fortress, where she spent more than 13 years. While at Fortress, she was responsible for various real estate, healthcare, financial services, infrastructure and leisure investments, including overseeing $5 billion of equity capital invested in healthcare real estate. Ms. Givens was also responsible for equity capital markets transactions in the Private Equity group, including multiple initial public offerings and follow-on offerings. In addition to these responsibilities, while at Fortress she also served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of New Residential Investment Corp. (NYSE: NRZ), another publicly traded REIT managed by Fortress. Prior to joining Fortress in 2006, she held various private equity and investment banking roles at Seaport Capital and at Deutsche Bank in New York and London.
Ms. Givens is currently a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit) Executive Board and is also a member of The Real Estate Roundtable. Ms. Givens received a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.