Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner- Anchor Health Properties
Ben Ochs is Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner with Anchor Health Properties and brings two decades of experience in the management, development, acquisition and investment of healthcare real estate.
As President of a predecessor firm, Brinkman Management & Development, Mr. Ochs institutionalized the firm and significantly grew its’ management platform in the process. After leading the firm into a merger with Anchor Health Properties in 2015, Mr. Ochs has continued to grow the “new” Anchor, diversifying its offerings, capabilities and expanding its geographic reach nationally. Amongst the growth initiatives, he oversaw the launch of a new acquisitions/investment platform, complementing the firm’s management and development platforms. Since the merger, Anchor has closed more than $3B of new investments, having partnered with public and private equity sources, creating discretionary private equity healthcare funds in partnership with Chestnut Real Estate Partners and through the launch of programmatic joint ventures with real estate investment funds such as The Carlyle Group, Harrison Street and Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Ochs received a BBA from James Madison University with concentrations in Finance and Management, holds the CPM designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management and is a licensed Principal Broker in Virginia. He also serves as a member of Anchor’s Investment Committee responsible for the evaluation and adjudication of new investment opportunities, be they acquisitions or development.
He was an HREI Healthcare Real Estate Executive of the Year finalist in 2023, 2022, 2019 & 2016, is a member of Young Presidents’ Organization, and serves on the Revista Advisory Board, the James Madison University College of Business Finance & Business Law Advisory Board and The Covenant School.
Based in the firm’s Charlottesville, VA, office, Mr. Ochs brings more than a decade of experience in the management, development, acquisition, and investment of healthcare real estate. Prior to the merger of Brinkman Management & Development with Anchor Health Properties, Mr. Ochs spent a decade overseeing the predecessor firm’s day-to-day operations of Development, Operations, Financing, Asset Management, Leasing, Acquisition and Disposition of Healthcare Real Estate to hospitals, physician practice groups, private and institutional healthcare real estate investors throughout the Southeast. Before Brinkman Management & Development, Mr. Ochs served as a Financial and Underwriting Analyst at a boutique consulting firm. Mr. Ochs received a BBA from James Madison University with concentrations in Finance and Management, holds the CPM designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management and currently serves as the firm’s Principal Broker in the firm’s central Virginia office. He was an HREI Healthcare Real Estate Executive of the Year finalist in 2016 and serves on the James Madison University College of Business Finance and Business Law Advisory Board as well as Treasurer of the Trinity Fellows Program. Mr. Ochs resides in Charlottesville, VA, and enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and three children.
