NEOMED gets new member on board

Staff report

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Northeast Ohio Medical University has announced the appointment of J. David Heller as a new member of its board of trustees.

Heller was appointed to a six-year term by Ohio Gov. John Kasich last month. He will replace trustee Denise San Antonio Zeman.

Heller is co-founder and principal of the NRP Group, a full-service developer, general contractor and property-management company. His primary responsibilities include new business development, project financial structuring and day-to-day management of the company.

He also serves on the NRP Investment Committee, which reviews and approves all new NRP business.

Before founding The NRP Group, Heller served as a consultant at the Townsend Group, where he was responsible for portfolio diversification, asset management, investment strategy and project underwriting.

He also completed more than $3.6 billion in real estate investments over two years in the arenas of office, industrial, retail, single- family and multifamily construction projects.

Heller also previously spent five years at Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago as a manager in the real- estate consulting division.

Heller earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

He is a certified public accountant and a member of the American Institute of CPAs.

Heller serves on the executive committee and is past chairman of the Housing Credit Group for the National Association of Home Builders.

He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Campaign for Affordable Housing and the Editorial Advisory Board for Affordable Housing Finance magazine.

Additionally, he serves on the Board of Trustees for Jewish Community Housing, Mount Sinai Health Care Foundation and the United Way of Cleveland.

Heller also serves as an officer of the board for the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland and Gross Schechter Day School, as well as the board president of the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland.

In January 2009, Heller was appointed to a five-year term as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council by the president of the United States and was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young Cleveland in 2010.