Debra Cafaro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Debra Cafaro

American businessperson, Chairman of the Board and CEO of ventas

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1957

Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Profession: lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Debra A.
Cafaro, born December 15, 1957 is an American business executive, who is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ventas, Inc.(NYSE:VTR), an S&P 500 healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) with enterprise value of $37 billion that owns approximately 1200 healthcare properties located through the U.S., Canada and the UK.
Cafaro joined Ventas in 1999 as CEO and President when the company’s market cap was about $200 million and was in dire financial shape.
She has been widely credited with the Company’s turnaround and its subsequent success. Under Cafaro’s leadership, Ventas was named the most successful financial publicly traded company for the first decade of the new century and in 2018 was voted as one of the world’s most admired real estate companies by Fortune magazine.
Ventas is well-regarded for sustaining long-term performance; for the 19 years ending 3/31/2019, Ventas total shareholder return was 5,342%, compared with 669% percent for the MSCI US REIT Index and 180% percent for the S&P 500 Index.
The Company's compound annual total shareholder return (TSR) has exceeded 23 percent since January 1, 2000.Cafaro has been name the Top Performing Women CEO Ranked By Total Return by Forbes and has been listed as one of the best performing CEOs in the world for several years by the Harvard Business Review.