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Rosa Williams serves as Senior Vice President of Operations at Medical Properties Trust. Prior to joining the company, she served as the Chief Financial Officer of a Birmingham hospital that was a joint venture partnership among 52 physicians. For 15 years, Williams worked at Encompass Health (formerly HealthSouth Corp.), where she served in various operational roles in the ambulatory divisions, including surgery, diagnostic imaging, and physical therapy. Additionally, she served seven years in the finance department at another Birmingham hospital. She began her career at Arthur Andersen & Co.

Williams received her B.S. in Accounting from the University of Alabama and is a Certified Public Accountant. She serves on the Board of Directors for Grace House Ministries, Jones Valley Teaching Farm, Red Mountain Theatre Company, and Prescott House.

Rosa is married to David and together they have six children and thirteen grandchildren.

Before joining MPT in 2008, J. Kevin Hanna worked as Controller of Fruit of the Loom, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, and Russell Corp., a global consumer products company. He started his career in the Birmingham, Alabama, office of Ernst & Young LLP in 1995, where he spent eight years auditing public and private companies, primarily in the retail, distribution, and consumer products industries. Hanna received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Alabama and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Hanna serves on the board of the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.

He and his wife, Julianne, have two daughters.

Larry Portal serves as Senior Vice President – Senior Advisor to the CEO and oversees many of the Company’s strategic initiatives, including complex transaction structuring, tenant restructuring, raising capital, and ESG. Prior to joining MPT in 2019, Portal was a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, guiding REIT clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring, and IPO advisory. Portal began his career practicing tax at Ernst & Young and was also head of Tax for Vornado Realty Trust from 1997-2002.

Portal earned a B.S. in Accounting from Yeshiva University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is involved in a number of New York-based charitable organizations.

Portal and his wife, Andrea, have four children and two grandchildren.

Charles R. Lambert joined MPT in 2006 as Director of Finance before advancing to his current role. Prior to that, Lambert was a Vice President and Assistant Treasurer at a publicly traded insurance company and also worked in the financial advisory services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Lambert earned a B.A. in Communications from Wake Forest University and an MBA from The Ohio State University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Council on Economic Education, Junior Achievement of Alabama, and Smile-A-Mile.

Lambert and his wife, Leigh Anne, have three children.

R. Lucas Savage serves as Vice President – Head of Global Acquisitions and is responsible for MPT’s extensive acquisitions efforts. Based in MPT’s headquarters, Luke oversees the acquisitions teams in our Birmingham, New York, Luxembourg, and London.

Prior to MPT, Savage was a Regional Controller for Plano, Texas-based Triad Hospitals and later served as assistant Chief Financial Officer at a Triad/CHS hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Before joining the healthcare industry from Ernst & Young, he spent more than six years in public accounting in the telecom and e-commerce industries.

Savage is involved, along with MPT, in supporting the Luxembourg organization Chaîne de l’Espoir, which helps children receive medical care.

Savage holds a B.B.A in accounting from Harding University in Arkansas, and is a certified public accountant. He is married to Gina with three children.