Bio
Edward K. Aldag, Jr., launched Medical Properties Trust, Inc., (NYSE: MPW) in 2003 as the only healthcare company of its kind. Today, MPT is the world’s preeminent source of capital for hospitals, with a portfolio of almost 400 facilities across the United States, Western Europe and Australia. Under Aldag’s leadership, MPT’s assets have grown to more than $16.5 billion, and the company now owns more than 41,000 hospital beds. MPT tenants include six of the top 10 for-profit hospital operators in the U.S., as well as the largest hospital operator in the United Kingdom, Germany’s leading rehabilitation hospital operator, Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator and leading hospital operators in Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Aldag serves on the board of directors for Children’s of Alabama, one of the nation’s leading hospitals for children, and as a director and member of the investment committee of the Alabama Children’s Hospital Foundation. He also serves as a board member of Mitchell’s Place, the Birmingham Education Foundation and the American Sports Medicine Institute, and as an executive committee member of the Birmingham Business Alliance. He also is a guest lecturer at the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). A member of the World Presidents Organization, Aldag was named CEO of the Year among mid-sized companies by the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ) and received the Groundbreakers Award from Birmingham Magazine in 2013. For the past four years, the BBJ has cited him as one of “Birmingham’s Most Influential Executives.” A native of Eufaula, Alabama, Aldag graduated from the University of Alabama, where he majored in finance and met Melinda, his wife of almost 35 years. They have three grown children and two granddaughters.
Areas of Interest
- Deal Type
- Acquisition, Development, Ground Lease, Loan Purchase, Opportunity Zone, Partner Buyout, Pre-Development, Recapitalization, Refinance, Rehabilitation
- AUM
- Max LTV
- Capital Stack