Josh Crisp is a senior living executive with more than 12 years experience in development, construction, and management of senior living communities across the southeast. Josh is Founder, President and CEO of Solinity, a senior living development and management company designed to reshape the senior living industry to better meet the needs of the aging and create intergenerational communities.

Prior to the inception of Solinity, Josh founded TLC Senior Living Management and Consulting which led to his leadership in Dominion Senior Living. In 2014, under Josh’s leadership, Dominion designed, built, and managed five new communities in East Tennessee. During that same 3 year period, Josh also led the team to begin developing an additional six new communities in Tennessee, Kentucky, and South Carolina. While with Dominion he also brought on several hundred new team members and built a culture first work environment. In addition to leading Dominion’s growth, Josh assisted other senior living developers and facility owners in various capacities from third party management to strategic consulting, and team building.

Josh serves on a variety of industry boards and is an active voice to legislature. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam appointed Josh to the Board for Licensing Health Care Facilities in 2014. The board provides regulatory authority over all licensed health care facilities in the state of Tennessee where he serves as Chairman of the board’s Assisted Living Standing Committee. He earned his Bachelors in Business Education from Carson-Newman University and has been a nationally certified assisted living administrator throughout his career.

Josh has served on a number of civic and professional boards including a strategic committee for the College of Public Health at East Tennessee State University and Leading Age Tennessee where he served as Secretary for the Board’s Executive Committee and chaired the Public Policy Committee.

For fun, Josh enjoys working out and preparing for obstacle course races. His latest adventure is completing a 1,098 mile bike ride with a group of cyclists who raised over $150,000 for the Pat Summitt Foundation in honor of legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt and her 1,098 career wins. Josh has a wonderful wife, Lauren, and they have three children, Joel, Judah, and Lyla Mae.

Sara Mitchell joins Solinity as Director of Communications & Client Relations with experience in broadcast journalism, digital marketing/social media management and public relations. She works with the Solinity team to market the mission of bridging the gap between generations and provoking a new mindset of intergenerational living.

With a passion for communications, Sara serves as liaison between new developments, existing communities, and the Solinity management team.

Sara holds a Master of Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and frequently emcees for events such as Big Brothers, Big Sisters of East Tennessee, the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, and the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant. She resides in Knoxville, Tennessee where she enjoys running and CrossFit.

Erika Edstrom brings over 18 years of human resources, payroll, and organizational development experience and is passionate about helping managers make the most of their resources and talent. She is responsible for overseeing payroll matters in addition to handling various human resources-related activities.

Erika holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship from the University of Denver. Like famous D.U. alum, Condoleezza Rice, she loves policy but isn’t fond of politics. Having a strong appreciation for employment law, she will ensure accurate information will substantiate any question asked. She is just a call or email away should her assistance be needed.

Growing up in the beautiful Rocky Mountain state of Colorado, she is very athletic and enjoys participating in multitudinous year-round activities such as hiking with her rambunctious Boxer, Angus, participating in races, and riding her mountain bike. Already an empty nester, she is most proud of her two children, Morgan and Rhett, and loves spending time with them when their busy schedules allow. Erika has a passion for traveling and feels most at home in Germany, where her mother is from.

Kristi Kennedy brings over 25 years of experience in the accounting and finance field in both the public and private sectors specializing in the senior care and construction industries. Her primary goal is to lessen the accounting and tax burden for community leadership so they can focus on residents, families, and team members.

She earned a BS in Business Administration in accounting from Southeast Missouri State University followed by ten years of public accounting (tax and audit) work. Kristi also enjoyed working with an interior design/architecture group in downtown Nashville, Tennessee for five years as well as expanding her experience in real estate development. She is now a strategic partner in the real estate, development, and manufacturing of senior living communities.

Kristi loves to play with numbers so working everyday is just a big fun puzzle! When she is not working, Kristi has two teenage boys who are very adventurous and active, and their family enjoys hiking, riding mountain bikes, dirt bikes and traveling!

Kaleb Scharmahorn brings over ten years of creative marketing and digital advertising experience to Solinity. He has worked professionally in both the Not-For-Profit and For-Profit sectors as Founder and President of strategic partner, Markentum, which provides a full sphere of internet marketing management.

With a Master’s Degree in Internet Marketing from Full Sail University, Kaleb has led the Markentum internet marketing team to over 15 Gold and Silver advertising awards on behalf of various clients in the senior living industry.

In his free time, Kaleb loves to spend time in the outdoors with his wife and 3 children in Ormond Beach, Florida. He also serves as the President-Elect for the Daytona Beach Advertising Federation which is one of the largest AdFed clubs throughout Florida and the Caribbean.

Shana Smith is a second-generation manager in assisted living work where she enjoys serving and providing for the generation that helped craft her professional and personal life. She thrives on the passion and commitment she sees from others giving back in senior care.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Arts Management from the College of Charleston, South Carolina. As Special Projects Manager, Shana assists community managers in exploring out of the box possibilities with a new energy when the tyranny of urgent time limits overlap with decision making.

In her spare time, Shana is a mother of two, Brendan and McKenna, and is married to Matt. She also spends time hiking, camping and skiing Steamboat Springs (the Smith’s home base of four years).