Essel Bailey

Essel Bailey is a lawyer and private investor with a long involvement in healthcare services to the elderly. He has organized and run two public companies and served as a director of several publicly listed companies. He has spent the last 30 years working with capital markets, investment banks and other financial organizations in real estate, finance, healthcare and manufacturing in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

After several years in Michigan state government, Mr. Bailey spent 16 years with the Detroit law firm Dykema, Gossett where he was a partner. He left the firm in 1987 to organize and capitalize several public and private companies and founded Omega Healthcare Investors and Omega Worldwide Inc, both public providers of healthcare finance, the latter in the UK and Australia. He retired from public companies in 2000 and organized a private company providing healthcare services through retirement communities, assisted living and nursing facilities. He serves as a director of nonprofit organizations related to mental health, education, and is active on conservation issues, serving as an officer of the Michigan chapter of The Nature Conservancy and as a supporter of the College of the Environment at Wesleyan. He is also chair of the Economic Dinner Group, a town-gown organization at the UM in Ann Arbor. He continues as a director and a principal owner of companies engaged in real estate, healthcare services to the elderly and the production of the premium California wine, Knightsbridge.

Essel was raised in Michigan and educated at Cranbrook School and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he served on the Presidents Council. He also holds a JD degree from the University of Michigan Law School.