Craig M. Bernfield

Craig M. Bernfield is the Chief Executive Officer and the Chairman of the board of directors of Aviv REIT, Inc. Mr. Bernfield cofounded Aviv Healthcare Properties Limited Partnership in 2005. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Karell Capital Ventures, Inc., or KCV, which he joined in 1990. KCV managed the entities that were combined in 2005 in connection with the formation of the predecessor partnership. Mr. Bernfield has been an investor in the nursing home industry for approximately 20 years, and was the Co-Founder of some of the entities that were combined in 2005. He received a J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and a B.S. in finance from the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.