Meet Our New Board Chair
Los Angeles native Michael Heslov has been elected to a two-year term beginning on July 1st, Heslov becomes the 52nd Board Chair in the Home's 98-year history. At 50 years of age, he is one of the youngest executives ever to serve in that capacity.
A commercial real estate developer and co-partner in the high-profile Los Angeles firm, Soboroff Partners, Heslov has been a board member for six years, and was instrumental in negotiations that enabled the Home to acquire the option to purchase the property for our new Westside campus.
Heslov has served as vice chair of the board's Budget and Finance Committee for the past two years, and is a passionate advocate of the Home's mission to care for the community's less affluent seniors.
Michael Heslov has some very personal ties to the Jewish Home, as well. In January of 2005, his father, Arthur, who had been battling Alzheimer's disease, was admitted to the Home's Goldenberg•Ziman Special Care Center, and was a resident for two years before he passed away.
Heslov's recent efforts on behalf of the Home reflect the gratitude he and his family have for the compassionate care his father received during those years. His mother, Jerrie Heslov, served as co-chair of the gala Reflections dinner in 2008.
Heslov, his wife Lynne, and their two daughters live in Westwood. Living on the densely populated Westside, Heslov says, makes him keenly aware of the need for senior housing and services in Los Angeles.
Throughout his two-year term, he intends to keep his focus on the successful development of the Gonda Healthy Aging Westside Campus, while helping to expand Jewish Home community services to the growing population of seniors in Los Angeles County.