As Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, Bill (BJ) Grant oversees relationships with Ventas’s investors and covering research analysts and communicates Ventas’s strategy, performance and outlook to the market. He is responsible for working closely with the executive leadership team and key stakeholders to develop investor materials and messaging that enhances Ventas’s competitive positioning.

Prior to Ventas, Grant had a 20-year career at Morgan Stanley, most recently serving as Portfolio Manager and Head of Listed U.S. Real Estate in the Investment Management Division. In this role, Grant was directly responsible for $9 billion in client equity invested in U.S. real estate companies across all property types and led the research and investment process. He was a senior leader on the team that built and scaled Morgan Stanley’s successful Global Listed Real Estate investing platform from $4 billion to $28 billion in equity AUM. Grant began his career in the Fixed Income Division and completed $21 billion of securitized debt financing for issuer clients in the commercial real estate and consumer lending industries.

Grant holds a B.A. in Economics from Occidental College and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.