Clayton (Mitch) Mitchell Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Facilities Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health “Mitch” joined Jefferson from Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, where he served in various capacities for eight years, to include Executive Director, National Facilities Services Colorado and Mid-Atlantic States, and most recently, Vice President (Interim) Facilities Operations. Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization with more than 12 million members, 200,000 administrative employees, 18,000 physicians, 51,000 nurses, and $80 billion in annual revenues. For Jefferson, Mitch provides the leadership of facilities service delivery and public safety for a 18 million square foot portfolio comprised of 18 hospitals, a university with two main campuses, and research labs. He is charged with leading corporate transformation of real estate, facilities, and public safety and 400+ staff distributed across five divisions. He also develops creative and fiscally responsible plans for execution of Jefferson real estate and facilities strategies, to include sustainability, digital transformation within real estate and facilities, capital program delivery, and real estate portfolio management and to meet the growing needs of Jefferson. Raised in San Mateo, California, Mitch earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, and his Master’s in Civil Engineering, with a concentration in Construction Management, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has also completed executive management studies at both the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth and the Harvard Business School. He completed a 25-year career as a U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer prior to transitioning to the healthcare industry delivering over $7B in facilities projects and services across the facilities spectrum to include planning, design, constru