Smith Senior Living CEO and leadership

Pres-i-dent and CEO Kevin McGee’s rela-tion-ship to Smith Senior Liv-ing dates to his col-lege days, when his grand-moth-er moved into Smith Vil-lage, for-mer-ly known as the Wash-ing-ton and Jane Smith Home. ​“Even as an active senior,” he says, ​“she under-stood the cen-tral role that being part of a vibrant com-mu-ni-ty plays for old-er peo-ple. Reflect-ing on my vis-its to her leads me to believe that my grandmother’s pos-i-tive expe-ri-ence point-ed me towards a career in gerontology.”

His own ear-ly-in-life expe-ri-ences inform Kevin’s resolve to pre-serve Smith Senior Living’s excep-tion-al rep-u-ta-tion for qual-i-ty care and life-enhanc-ing pro-grams. ​“Dur-ing our recent, ambi-tious growth we have stead-fast-ly remem-bered every-thing we do is about improv-ing lives of indi-vid-u-als in a mean-ing-ful way.”

An Illi-nois licensed nurs-ing home admin-is-tra-tor, McGee earned a M.B.A. in health-care admin-is-tra-tion and grad-u-at-ed with hon-ors from Saint Xavier Uni-ver-si-ty and magna cum laude with a master’s degree in geron-tol-ogy from East-ern Illi-nois Uni-ver-si-ty, where he also holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology.

To Chief Infor-ma-tion Offi-cer James Schmitt the best part of his job is ​“con-nect-ing Res-i-dents with tech-nol-o-gy.” But that is only part of it. He is respon-si-ble for the imple-men-ta-tion and main-te-nance of all tech-nol-o-gy solu-tions through-out the Smith com-mu-ni-ties. His depart-ment also pro-vides sup-port and train-ing of emerg-ing tech-nolo-gies for admin-is-tra-tive staff and res-i-dents alike. Cur-rent-ly, he is lead-ing the inte-gra-tion of Smith’s elec-tron-ic med-ical record solu-tion that will be shared with oth-er health-care providers to stream-line the trans-fer of Res-i-dents’ patient health infor-ma-tion to keep Smith com-mu-ni-ties at the van-guard of ser-vice to Residents.

James heads a team of IT pros, and co-found-ed and over-sees the miSmith pro-gram, a tech-nol-o-gy sup-port pro-gram for Res-i-dents staffed by Saint Xavier Uni-ver-si-ty com-put-er sci-ence interns.

Senior level Executive with extensive experience leading all facets of financial operations for entities across diverse industries - generating millions of dollars in value. I successfully directed finance, accounting, and operational teams that collaborated as focused units to achieve aggressive business goals. Particularly effective leveraging board/stakeholder relationships, system/process improvements, and negotiation skills to maximize performance and ROI across operations. Highly effective at realigning and transforming organizations into rapid growth, market-driven entities.

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Business Restructurings & Reorganizations ·

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Board Relationship Management

Financial Administration & Reporting