Campus Continuum has assembled a management and advisory team with unmatched experience in assessing demand for, building, marketing and operating residential communities of life-long learners.

Management Team:

Gerard Badler, Managing Director of Campus Continuum, has over 30 years experience as a marketing strategy consultant. He was president of PIMS Associates, a research and consulting consortium among 300 major corporations worldwide, spun off from the Harvard Business School. He founded a consumer catalog with the highest average order size of any in the US. Earlier he was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
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David Carlen, founder and Director of Campus Continuum. David has over 20 years experience in real estate finance and investment management. He is also president of Norwich Corporation, an investment advisor and manager for private placement equity real estate investment that was formed in 1987. Previously, David was Vice President of Asset Management at the Boston Financial Group, a real estate investment banking firm, and a CPA with Ernst and Whinney.
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Robert Dana Chellis, Senior advisor at Campus Continuuum. Bob is the former president of National Lifecare and former president of the New England Gerontological Association. He initiated and followed to completion the first continuing care campus in Massachusetts, has testified on life care before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, an appeared on Ted Koppel's special "Aging in the 21st Century." Publications include "Congregate Housing for the Elderly," Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, 1981, and "Life Care: A Long Term Solution," Lexington Books, D.C. Heath, 1990.
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Stanley Hurwitz, Director of Communications for Campus Continuum, has over 25 years of experience in public relations, marketing and advertising. Stan is also principal of Creative Communications, an independent public relations / marketing consulting practice.
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Jonathan Spencer, Director of Information Technology and principal of CyberArtisans, a firm specializing in web marketing, search engine optimization, and web development.

Advisory Team:

Dr. Paula Panchuck, Dean of Lasell Village at Lasell College, Newton, MA. Paula manages the life-long learning program for this college-affiliated CCRC with 172 independent living units and 44 nursing beds, and serves as Principal of the Lasell Consulting Group. Under her guidance, residents must complete 450 hours annually of educational endeavors.

Dr. Sheila Waxman, Director of Marketing at Lasell Village. Sheila specializes in strategic marketing and new business development focused on the education oriented client and their families. In her previous role as Corporate Director of Programs for Cordia Senior Living, she developed national programming models for assisted living communities across the U.S.

Dr. Muriel Gillick is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is on the staff of the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Faulkner Hospital. She has published widely on geriatrics and is developing programs in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Her books include Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994) and Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart (NY: Norton, 2001).

Our Team