Ryan Novaczyk is the co-chief executive officer of New Perspective. Since joining New Perspective, Ryan has focused the company on serving its residents and team members (creating opportunities to live life on purpose), growing the people in the organization, and building out the platform capabilities to achieve our goal of serving 10,000 seniors. Ryan has worked side by side with his partners and senior leadership team to build and expand our servant leadership culture and commitment to collaboration.
Prior to joining New Perspective, Ryan served as Vice President of Equity Research for two multi-billion-dollar financial services firms in located in New York and Minnesota. Previously Ryan was engaged in equity research and investment banking, and mergers and acquisitions at Piper Jaffray in Minnesota. While at Piper he was involved in closing over one billion dollars of IPO and M&A-related financing.
Ryan graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota with a Bachelor-of-Arts Degree, majoring in Finance with a minor in Economics. Ryan holds professional certificates from the Erickson School at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in the following disciplines of the Seniors Housing & Care executive education program: Seniors Housing Executive, Finance, and Sales/Marketing. Ryan is active with industry associations and is a member of the Assisted Living Federation of America, CFO Executive Roundtable and sits on the Operator Advisory Board for the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing.
Ryan and his wife Courtney live in Minneapolis, MN with their son Callan and daughter Frankie. Ryan is a skiing and golfing enthusiast and enjoys family outings, hiking, biking, running, and trips to the cabin. Although not a fan of swimming, his arm has been twisted into doing triathlons from time to time.