Aric Chang is chief financial officer of American Healthcare REIT (NYSE: AHR). He oversees AHR’s capital allocation and capital markets strategy and leads the finance organization supporting the company’s portfolio of senior housing communities and other healthcare-focused properties.

Chang’s career has spanned public and private markets since 2001. Prior to AHR, Chang was chief financial officer, real estate, at Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), an S&P 500 REIT where he led corporate finance, financial planning and analysis, and real estate investment analysis. During his tenure at Public Storage, he oversaw approximately $16 billion in capital deployment across acquisitions, development, lending, and public-to-public M&A. Prior to Public Storage, Chang held senior finance positions at other publicly-traded REITs including Rexford Industrial (NYSE: REXR), where he served as senior vice president of investor relations and capital markets, and Rouse Properties, a mall and shopping center REIT. His extensive REIT sector experience includes buy-side and sell-side roles at Green Street Advisors and Oak Hill REIT Management, a real estate long/short hedge fund sponsored by the Robert M. Bass family office.

Chang also brings private market experience from J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Real Estate Americas, an $80 billion institutional real estate investment platform. As an executive director from 2015 to 2022, he served on the firm’s investment committee and was the senior strategist focused on alternative property sectors and responsible for operator selection, joint venture relationships, and fundraising.

Chang holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.