Benchmark CEO Tom Grape to Speak at Argentum Conference

Benchmark, a human connection company and leading provider of senior living services in the Northeast, today announced that its founder, chairman and CEO, Tom Grape, will participate in a panel discussion titled Insights from the C-Suite: Focus on Workforce as part of the Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference on April 16 at 1:20 pm.

The Conference will take place in San Antonio, Texas at the Expo Theater in the Henry B. González Convention Center. The panel will be moderated by legendary former White House ABC News correspondent, Ann Compton, and Grape will speak alongside Joel Nelson, president and CEO of Life Care Services and Patricia Will, founder and president of Belmont Village Senior Living.

Widely considered to be a senior living thought leader, Grape has led the transformation of Benchmark into a human connection company, which has had huge implications on Benchmark’s associate recruitment and retention. He has spoken on workforce issues at conferences throughout the United States, including most recently for the National Investment Center’s (NIC) spring conference in San Diego.

Since founding Benchmark 22 years ago, Grape has grown the company to 6,400 associates, now the largest senior housing company in the Northeast, and has earned a number of workplace accolades. In 2018, Benchmark was chosen by FORTUNE magazine for its inaugural 2018 Best Workplaces for Aging Services list and has been named to The Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work list for 11 years, every year it’s been published.

Tom is a founding board member and former chair of Argentum, the nation’s largest senior living association, as well as founder and past chairman of its state affiliate, the Massachusetts Assisted Living Association. In 1994, Tom was instrumental, along with then Secretary of Health and Human Services and now Governor, Charlie Baker, in writing the legislation for assisted living in Massachusetts. And in 2017, Baker tapped him to serve on the first Governor’s Council to Address Aging in Massachusetts.