Clayton Mitchell

Biography: Clayton (Mitch) Mitchell Senior Vice President, Real Estate and Facilities Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health “Mitch” joined Jefferson from Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, where he served in various capacities for eight years, to include Executive Director, National Facilities Services Colorado and Mid-Atlantic States, and most recently, Vice President (Interim) Facilities Operations. Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care organization with more than 12 million members, 200,000 administrative employees, 18,000 physicians, 51,000 nurses, and $80 billion in annual revenues. For Jefferson, Mitch provides the leadership of facilities service delivery and public safety for a 15 million square foot portfolio comprised of 14 hospitals, a university with two main campuses, and research labs. He is charged with leading corporate transformation of real estate, facilities, and public safety and 400+ staff distributed across five divisions. He also develops creative and fiscally responsible plans for execution of Jefferson real estate and facilities strategies, to include sustainability, digital transformation within real estate and facilities, capital program delivery, and real estate portfolio management and to meet the growing needs of Jefferson. Raised in San Mateo, California, Mitch earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, and his Master’s in Civil Engineering, with a concentration in Construction Management, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has also completed executive management studies at both the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth and the Harvard Business School. He completed a 25-year career as a U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer prior to transitioning to the healthcare industry delivering over $7B in facilities projects and services across the facilities spectrum to include planning, design, construction, real estate, operations, and maintenance. Mitch served in various challenging assignments to include Director, Maintenance, Transportation, and Utilities at the U.S. Naval Academy; Operations Officer for Naval Mobile Construction Battalion SEVENTY FOUR based in Gulfport, Mississippi; Navy Legislative Fellow to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott; Executive Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Navy, Installations and Facilities; and Commanding Officer, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion FORTY based in Port Hueneme, California and which deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana (Hurricane Katrina); Okinawa, Japan, and; Fallujah, Iraq. More recently, he was the Operations Officer for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in Washington, D.C., Project Executive for the $1B expansion of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda, Director Navy Energy Coordination Office and, Executive Director of Public Works Business Line for Navy Facilities Engineering Command. In this last role, Mitch and his team provided global facilities support and services for 80 global Navy and Marine Corps installations that included 31,000 buildings, 100 airfields, and 22 hospitals. Mitch is both a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Certified Energy Manager.