Lead­ing the Way

Geoffrey Roehll

Chair

Geof­frey Roehll is the Chair of the Friend­ship Senior Options Board of Direc­tors. He joined the Friend­ship Senior Options Board in 2014. Mr. Roehll serves as leader of the Senior Liv­ing Stu­dio at Hitch­cock Design Group, where he has demon­strat­ed his man­age­ment, plan­ning and design skills on promi­nent projects through­out the coun­try. Since join­ing Hitch­cock Design Group in 1990, he has direct­ed many land­mark projects in the senior liv­ing and assist­ed care mar­ket. His port­fo­lio of built work con­firms his pas­sion for good design and keen eye for detail. 

In addi­tion to his lead­er­ship role with Hitch­cock Design Group, Mr. Roehll’s diverse back­ground includes an annu­al engage­ment with the Chica­go Botan­ic Gar­den as an instruc­tor for the Ther­a­peu­tic Gar­den Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram. He has been a guest lec­tur­er at region­al and nation­al health­care and senior liv­ing con­fer­ences and enjoys shar­ing, with atten­dees, his ideas on site plan­ning and land­scape ele­ments that pro­mote heal­ing and respite.

Mr. Roehll is a grad­u­ate of Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty with Bach­e­lors of Sci­ence and Land­scape Archi­tec­ture. He is a licensed Land­scape Archi­tect in the State of Illinois.

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Bradley Barrie

Bradley Bar­rie joined the Friend­ship Senior Options board in 2014. Mr. Bar­rie is a finan­cial advi­sor with Ameriprise Finan­cial since 1998 and holds a lead­er­ship role with Ameriprise Finan­cial as a Reg­is­tered Prin­ci­pal, super­vis­ing 200 oth­er finan­cial advisors.

Mr. Bar­rie par­tic­i­pates in the com­mu­ni­ty through Feed­ing Amer­i­ca as well as Feed My Starv­ing Chil­dren. He has sup­port­ed the Alex­i­an Children’s Hos­pi­tal in Hoff­man Estates.

Mr. Bar­rie is a grad­u­ate of Rock­ford College.

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Tom Castronovo

Treasurer

Tom Cas­trono­vo joined the Friend­ship Senior Options Board in 2009. Mr. Cas­trono­vo is a 35 year vet­er­an of the finan­cial ser­vices indus­try and is an Accred­it­ed Invest­ment Fidu­cia­ry. Tom cur­rent­ly serves as Founder & Wealth Advi­sor at Cri­te­ri­on Wealth Advi­sors, LLC – a firm he co-found­ed in 2011 offer­ing secu­ri­ties through LPL Finan­cial, Mem­ber FINRA/SIPC and invest­ment advi­so­ry through Total Clar­i­ty Wealth Man­age­ment, Inc., a reg­is­tered invest­ment advi­sor. He spent the pri­or 10 years at Pri­vate­Ban­corp, Inc. in Chica­go serv­ing as Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Chief Mar­ket­ing Officer.

Mr. Cas­trono­vo earned his BA degree in Eco­nom­ics from Knox Col­lege and his MBA in Finance/​Marketing from Indi­ana University’s Kel­ley School of Business.

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J.E. Clark Delanois

Vice Chair

Clark Delanois joined the Friend­ship Senior Options Board in 2009. Mr. Delanois is a Senior Vice Pres­i­dent at The North­ern Trust Com­pa­ny at the Lake For­est Finan­cial Cen­ter where he leads a team of pro­fes­sion­als that ser­vice Per­son­al and Pri­vate Bank­ing, Invest­ment and Fidu­cia­ry ser­vices and co-leads the strat­e­gy for the North­west suburbs.

He is a grad­u­ate from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illinois.

Mr. Delanois serves on the board of direc­tors for Harp­er Col­lege Edu­ca­tion­al Foun­da­tion, is a Trustee for Cene­gen­ics Edu­ca­tion­al and Research Foun­da­tion, and a board mem­ber for Roo­sevelt Uni­ver­si­ty. He also serves as a Com­mis­sion­er for the Vil­lage of Schaum­burg Busi­ness Commission.

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William Powell

Bill Pow­ell joined the Friend­ship Senior Options Board of Direc­tors in 2015. Mr. Pow­ell is a retired small busi­ness own­er. He ran a couri­er ser­vice spe­cial­ized in inter­na­tion­al trade doc­u­ments, which facil­i­tat­ed ship­ments of goods com­ing into the coun­try as well as goods being export­ed to var­i­ous nations around the world.

Mr. Pow­ell attend­ed Iowa Wes­leyan Col­lege pri­or to enter­ing the U.S. Army for eight years. After active duty, he served 12 years on the Board of Direc­tors of Orchard Vil­lage in Skok­ie, IL, a home for men­tal­ly dis­abled adults.

Mr. Pow­ell resides at Friend­ship Village.

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Mary Sheahen

Mary Shea­hen, MS, BSN, is a health­care exec­u­tive with 40 years of lead­er­ship in a hos­pi­tal set­ting with skills in over­all oper­a­tions, strate­gic plan­ning and lead­er­ship, per­for­mance improve­ment, team facil­i­ta­tion, orga­ni­za­tion­al cul­ture change, staff devel­op­ment and new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties man­age­ment. Her last two roles includ­ed serv­ing as the CEO of Mid­west Med­ical Cen­ter and North­west Illinois. 

Mary is cur­rent­ly the Pres­i­dent of Shea­hen Group found­ed in 2000, a health­care con­sult­ing prac­tice spe­cial­iz­ing in pro­vid­ing senior lead­er­ship coach­ing, team build­ing, orga­ni­za­tion­al train­ing and project man­age­ment. She is a Reg­is­tered Lead­er­ship Coach.

She serves as the Board Chair of Mid­west Cen­ter in Gale­na and Vice Chair of North­west Com­mu­ni­ty Health­care in Arling­ton Heights. 

Mary and her hus­band, Chuck, live in Rolling Mead­ows with their dog named Daisy.

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Connie Shoemake

Con­nie Fako Shoe­make is a busi­ness and tech­nol­o­gy leader spe­cial­iz­ing in strat­e­gy, man­age­ment, oper­a­tions and busi­ness devel­op­ment. She has sig­nif­i­cant con­sult­ing expe­ri­ence in tech­nol­o­gy, busi­ness and mar­ket­ing strat­e­gy, busi­ness and inno­va­tion process improve­ment, and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment across indus­tries and com­pa­ny size.

Con­nie has worked as a Senior Con­sul­tant for Moran Tech­nol­o­gy Con­sult­ing spe­cial­iz­ing on devel­op­ing actions plans to iden­ti­fy and max­i­mize the ben­e­fits of IT sys­tems. Engage­ments includ­ed work­ing with edu­ca­tion, pub­lic sec­tor and com­mer­cial clients both glob­al­ly and in the U.S. Pre­vi­ous to this role Con­nie worked at IBM. Her last posi­tion at IBM was Vice Pres­i­dent for Glob­al Client Cen­ters. In this role she pro­vid­ed thought­ful lead­er­ship and direc­tion to IBM’s glob­al net­work of client cen­ters, enhanc­ing the capa­bil­i­ties of the cen­ters to pro­vide out­stand­ing client expe­ri­ence, stream­line cen­ter oper­a­tions, dri­ve incre­men­tal sales and enable sales teams and part­ners to show­case IBM’s solu­tions and tech­nol­o­gy capabilities.

Con­nie has suc­cess­ful­ly held mul­ti­ple exec­u­tive and man­age­ment posi­tions in sales, mar­ket­ing, strat­e­gy, trans­for­ma­tion, project man­age­ment, busi­ness part­ner devel­op­ment, acqui­si­tions and tech­ni­cal sup­port. Con­nie joined IBM as a soft­ware sales engi­neer in 1981.

Con­nie is cur­rent­ly an advi­sor and board mem­ber for Illi­nois State Uni­ver­si­ty Busi­ness School, and Nation­al Children’s Cen­ter (NCC) in Wash­ing­ton DC. Con­nie is active­ly involved on the state board for Illi­nois Spe­cial Olympics and vol­un­teers for Chicago’s Arts and Busi­ness Coun­cil. She is a for­mer board mem­ber for Immanuel Luther­an School, Illi­nois Tech­nol­o­gy Asso­ci­a­tion and the Chica­go Mayor’s Coun­cil on Tech­nol­o­gy. Con­nie has been active in pro­fes­sion­al orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing Women in Tech­nol­o­gy and the Chica­go Executive’s Club.

Con­nie is active­ly involved as a sub­sti­tute teacher for grades K‑12 in Illi­nois school dis­tricts 15, 211 and 220. Con­nie and her hus­band reside in Pala­tine, Illi­nois, where they are active in the local com­mu­ni­ty. They have four grown chil­dren. Connie’s hob­bies include men­tor­ing, read­ing, trav­el­ing and entertaining.

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Catherine Tardy

Secretary

Cathie Tardy joined the Friend­ship Senior Options Board in 2014. Ms. Tardy is a Vice Pres­i­dent of Baird & Warn­er Real Estate, with over 27 years of Branch Man­ag­er experience.

Ms. Tardy was rec­og­nized as the ​“Real­tor of the Year” in 1991 and ​“Real Estate Sales Man­ag­er” in 1996 by the Real­tor Asso­ci­a­tion of Fox Valley.

In 2001, Ms. Tardy served as the Pres­i­dent of the Real­tor Association.

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Loren Trimble

Loren Trim­ble joined the Friend­ship Vil­lage Board in 2017 and is the Founder, CEO, and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of AArete LLC, a glob­al man­age­ment con­sult­ing firm. His pri­ma­ry focus is set­ting the strate­gic direc­tion of the firm and cre­at­ing and mold­ing AArete’s go to mar­ket strat­e­gy and exe­cu­tion. In addi­tion to Mr. Trimble’s pri­ma­ry focus, he also plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in thought lead­er­ship for the firm and is at the core of AArete’s Knowl­edge Man­age­ment Cen­ter™. Loren lives and breathes every­day his pas­sion for excel­lence with AArete’s per­son­nel and clients.

He has exten­sive busi­ness and oper­a­tions strat­e­gy expe­ri­ence, serv­ing clients glob­al­ly in the fol­low­ing indus­tries: health­care- provider, pay­er and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, as well as high­er edu­ca­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, con­sumer prod­ucts, and busi­ness ser­vices. Spe­cif­ic areas of exper­tise include strate­gic cost reduc­tion, rev­enue opti­miza­tion, pre- and post-merg­er val­u­a­tion and syn­er­gy inte­gra­tions, and advanced data ana­lyt­ics.

Before found­ing AArete, Loren was a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Strate­gic Sourc­ing Prac­tice Lead at Huron Con­sult­ing. Pri­or to Huron, he start­ed the Strate­gic Sourc­ing ser­vices for Arthur Ander­sen, devel­op­ing the method­ol­o­gy and refin­ing the approach through numer­ous client engagements.

Loren has pre­sent­ed for a num­ber of orga­ni­za­tions and authored numer­ous arti­cles. He holds a Mas­ters of Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go and a Bach­e­lor of Account­ing from The Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa. He is a CPA and a long term mem­ber of Rotary Inter­na­tion­al and the AICPA.

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Stephen Yenchek

President and Chief Executive Officer
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Dur­ing the past 15 years, Stephen A. Yenchek has served in a vari­ety of posi­tions at Friend­ship Vil­lage and Friend­ship Senior Options. Mr. Yenchek was pro­mot­ed to Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of Friend­ship Senior Options in Novem­ber 2009. In this posi­tion, he is respon­si­ble to the Board of Direc­tors for the strate­gic lead­er­ship and future devel­op­ment of the organization.

Mr. Yenchek for­mer­ly served as Vice Pres­i­dent, Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer and Vice Pres­i­dent, Oper­a­tions and Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment. Pri­or to join­ing the orga­ni­za­tion, Mr. Yenchek served as a con­sul­tant for strate­gic plan­ning, mar­ket­ing and oper­a­tional effec­tive­ness; at Elmhurst Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal as Vice Pres­i­dent Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices; at John F. Kennedy Med­ical Cen­ter as Vice Pres­i­dent-Oper­a­tions; and at Mary­land Health Care Sys­tem as Direc­tor of Admin­is­tra­tive Services.

Mr. Yenchek is a grad­u­ate of Boston Col­lege with a B.S. in Eco­nom­ics and Biol­o­gy and a Mas­ters of Health Admin­is­tra­tion from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty. He is a Cer­ti­fied Aging Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al from the Coali­tion for Lead­er­ship in Aging Ser­vices and serves on their Board of Advi­sors. He is a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to state and nation­al orga­ni­za­tions through their edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams. He is a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Health­care Executives.

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Stephen Yenchek

President and Chief Executive Officer
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Dur­ing the past 15 years, Stephen A. Yenchek has served in a vari­ety of posi­tions at Friend­ship Vil­lage and Friend­ship Senior Options. Mr. Yenchek was pro­mot­ed to Pres­i­dent and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of Friend­ship Senior Options in Novem­ber 2009. In this posi­tion, he is respon­si­ble to the Board of Direc­tors for the strate­gic lead­er­ship and future devel­op­ment of the organization.

Mr. Yenchek for­mer­ly served as Vice Pres­i­dent, Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer and Vice Pres­i­dent, Oper­a­tions and Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment. Pri­or to join­ing the orga­ni­za­tion, Mr. Yenchek served as a con­sul­tant for strate­gic plan­ning, mar­ket­ing and oper­a­tional effec­tive­ness; at Elmhurst Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal as Vice Pres­i­dent Pro­fes­sion­al Ser­vices; at John F. Kennedy Med­ical Cen­ter as Vice Pres­i­dent-Oper­a­tions; and at Mary­land Health Care Sys­tem as Direc­tor of Admin­is­tra­tive Services.

Mr. Yenchek is a grad­u­ate of Boston Col­lege with a B.S. in Eco­nom­ics and Biol­o­gy and a Mas­ters of Health Admin­is­tra­tion from Duke Uni­ver­si­ty. He is a Cer­ti­fied Aging Ser­vices Pro­fes­sion­al from the Coali­tion for Lead­er­ship in Aging Ser­vices and serves on their Board of Advi­sors. He is a fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to state and nation­al orga­ni­za­tions through their edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams. He is a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Health­care Executives.

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Linda Flaherty

Corporate Director, Risk Compliance and Accreditation

Lin­da Fla­her­ty is an RN with a BS in Busi­ness Man­age­ment and an MBA with pro­gres­sive expe­ri­ence in risk man­age­ment, patient safe­ty, health­care qual­i­ty, com­pli­ance and man­age­ment. She has been suc­cess­ful in devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of these types of pro­grams as well as mov­ing pro­grams for­ward in their devel­op­ment of risk reduc­tion strate­gies, patient safe­ty improve­ments and achieve­ment of qual­i­ty goals. In addi­tion, Lin­da has suc­cess­ful expe­ri­ence with accred­i­ta­tion and IDPH compliance.

Her diverse back­ground includes acute care, senior care, out­pa­tient set­tings, and physi­cian offices. She has worked for Res­ur­rec­tion Med­ical Cen­ter, Weiss Memo­r­i­al Hos­pi­tal, Care Cen­ters (a long-term care man­age­ment com­pa­ny), and as a con­sul­tant for Pen­du­lum, LLC, a Risk Man­age­ment Con­sult­ing firm.

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Michael Flynn

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
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Michael A. Fly­nn is a senior exec­u­tive with over 29 years expe­ri­ence with 23 years in the long-term care field. Mr. Fly­nn rejoined Friend­ship Senior Options in August 2012 to pro­vide lead­er­ship and direc­tion for all aspects of the finan­cial oper­a­tions for the par­ent and all affil­i­ate organizations.

Pri­or to his lat­est posi­tion at Friend­ship Senior Options, Mr. Fly­nn was appoint­ed Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer at Smith Senior Liv­ing where he was respon­si­ble for the day-to-day lead­er­ship and strate­gic devel­op­ment of orga­ni­za­tion. He has played key finan­cial and oper­at­ing roles with regard to sound fis­cal man­age­ment, tax-exempt financ­ing, and reg­u­la­to­ry and cor­po­rate com­pli­ance, among oth­er issues.

Mr. Fly­nn served as Vice Pres­i­dent and Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer for Friend­ship Vil­lage of Schaum­burg pri­or to join­ing Smith Senior Living.

Mr. Fly­nn is a grad­u­ate of DePaul Uni­ver­si­ty with a B.S. in Account­ing, and he received an MBA from Keller Grad­u­ate School of Man­age­ment. Mr. Fly­nn is a Cer­ti­fied Pub­lic Accountant.

He cur­rent­ly serves as the Chair of the CARF/CCAC finan­cial advi­so­ry pan­el. Mr. Fly­nn has con­duct­ed sur­veys for CARF/CCAC for the past 23 years. He is a Retire­ment Hous­ing Pro­fes­sion­al. He serves on the Finance Com­mit­tee for Health Resources Alliance. He is chair elect of the LSN Board, and he is a mem­ber of the LSN Finance Com­mit­tee. Mr. Fly­nn is a fre­quent speak­er at nation­al and state asso­ci­a­tion meetings.

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Tony Madl

Executive Director, GreenFields of Geneva

Tony Madl is the new exec­u­tive direc­tor of Green­Fields Gene­va. The res­i­dent of Elk Grove has worked with Green­Fields’ sis­ter com­mu­ni­ty, Friend­ship Vil­lage Schaum­burg since 2012.

A grad­u­ate of North­ern Illi­nois Uni­ver­si­ty, Madl stud­ied health and aging with a minor in geron­tol­ogy. He earned his MBA in 2003 from Keller Grad­u­ate School of Man­age­ment while work­ing full time.

Madl began his career at Res­ur­rec­tion Pres­ence Health Care Sys­tems, where he was an admin­is­tra­tor in skilled long-term care for 11 years. He joined Friend­ship Vil­lage as admin­is­tra­tor for Bri­ar­wood Health Care.

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Patricia Mash

Vice President, Planning and Marketing
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Patri­cia Mash was hired as Vice Pres­i­dent of Plan­ning and Mar­ket­ing in March 2011. In this posi­tion, she leads the strate­gic plan­ning, mar­ket­ing, brand­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tions and sales for Friend­ship Senior Options and Friend­ship Village.

Ms. Mash’s expe­ri­ence offered Friend­ship Senior Options a new approach to mar­ket­ing and sales in the senior liv­ing busi­ness. Pri­or to join­ing Friend­ship Senior Options, Ms. Mash held numer­ous posi­tions in mar­ket­ing. She spent 20 years at Unit­ed Air­lines where she served in var­i­ous mar­ket­ing posi­tions includ­ing Pres­i­dent of Mileage Plus Mar­ket­ing, Inc. and Vice Pres­i­dent of Rev­enue Man­age­ment. She also served as Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Mar­ket­ing for Equi­ty Res­i­den­tial in Chica­go and Senior Vice Pres­i­dent of Mar­ket­ing for River­stone Res­i­den­tial Group in Dal­las, TX.

Ms. Mash is a grad­u­ate of Bing­ham­ton Uni­ver­si­ty where she received an MBA, with a con­cen­tra­tion in Mar­ket­ing, and St. Lawrence Uni­ver­si­ty where she received a B.A. in Soci­ol­o­gy. She is also a Cer­ti­fied Mar­ket­ing Professional.

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