The board of directors of Global Medical REIT Inc. appointed Alfonzo Leon as chief investment officer financial officer to hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his resignation or removal. Mr. Leon is a real estate finance executive with 15 years of experience and $3 billion in completed transactions. He has acted as a principal on behalf of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds and as an investment banker representing health systems, REITs, health care developers, and private equity real estate funds.

Mr. Leon's core property type expertise includes medical office, outpatient facilities, post-acute facilities, and senior housing. Mr. Leon also has experience in commercial real estate transactions/brokerage, business development, raising capital for funds and development projects, structuring joint venture agreements, acquisitions and dispositions for separate and commingled funds, real estate M&A, strategic real estate advisory for health systems, developer RFPs for hospitals and negotiation of purchase agreements, master leases, ground leases and development agreements, physician private placements, production of marketing materials and Confidential Information Memorandums, buy-side and sell-side due diligence, and pitches to Investment Committees, hospital Executive Boards, and investors/developers.