Lynne Katzmann is the President and CEO of Juniper Communities, which she founded in 1988. In 2019, she was the inaugural recipient of McKnight's Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award and in January 2020 she was inducted into the American Seniors Housing Association Hall of Fame. The International Council on Active Aging recognized Lynne with the 2022 CEO Pinnacle Award for Best in Wellness Leadership, and in 2023 McKnight’s honored her with their Pinnacle Award for Thought Leadership. Under Lynne’s leadership, Juniper developed Connect4Life, a pioneering model of integrated care to position senior living operators to capture their inherent value in the post-acute continuum. In 2021, Lynne launched Perennial Advantage, an operator-sponsored Medicare Advantage I-SNP, in partnership with Ohio Living and Colorado-based Christian Living Communities. Lynne earned her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1992.
