As Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Bill (BJ) Grant is responsible for working closely with Ventas’s investors and analysts, communicating Ventas’s strategy, performance and prospects to the market and driving continued progress on the Company’s key communication initiatives.

Prior to Ventas, Grant spent 20 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as Portfolio Manager and Head of Listed U.S. Real Estate for Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In this role, Grant had direct responsibility for $9 billion in client assets invested in real estate companies across all property types, including healthcare, and led all aspects of the U.S. research and investment process.  He started his career at Morgan Stanley in the Fixed Income Division working on client coverage and transaction execution of securitized debt products and completed $21 billion of financing for issuer clients in the real estate and consumer industries.

Grant holds a B.A. in Economics from Occidental College and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.  He has been an active supporter of the Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program since 2002 as a tutor and mentor.