Meet Our Team

Prior to joining QSLM, Russ was engaged in private practice with two preeminent law firms for more than twenty-five years. He represented business, banking, and real estate development interests in a wide range of complex, high-stake matters and was frequently engaged as outside general counsel for a number of start-up companies and long-term clients. Russ served three years as a National Director for the Defense Research Institute (22,000 members), where he most recently chaired the External Policy Group of the Center for Law and Public Policy. He also served in leadership roles at the International Association of Defense Counsel and Lawyers for Civil Justice.

Russ has published and lectured on matters involving antitrust, predatory pricing, false advertising, and professional liability. He’s admitted to practice in the Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. Russ is a graduate of Samford University and NYU.

Will is the Executive Vice President of operations for QSLM. He has been working in senior living for more than 13 years, and he can lay claim to being our very first senior leader who began his career as a personal assistant. Will started working his way through college as a caregiver at Morning Pointe Senior Living in Chattanooga, and he learned very quickly that he had found his calling. In the years after college, Will worked in a number of leadership roles. He’s served as an Executive Director, a Senior Executive Director, an Operations Specialist, and most recently as an RVPO and then VP of Operations with Dominion Senior Living.

Will holds a BS in Health Science and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from Southern Adventist University. When not working, Will finds his joy in cycling, running, and embracing the outdoors. He and his wife Sarah, along with their 4-year-old daughter Amelia, reside in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Having been promoted to Regional Vice President of Sales, Monica oversees the growth and sales of several communities. Monica has been in the hospitality industry for over 25 years. After starting as a hotel desk clerk and working her way up to General Manager for both Marriott and Hilton Hotels, she found her passion in senior living, where she helps people see how to make the rest of their life the best of their life. Though Colorado-born, she considers herself a West Texas native. Monica lived in Dallas for over 12 years and relocated to Daphne with her boyfriend Brian. Together they have three children: one of whom is a senior in high school and still lives with them, and two grown children living in Alabama and Texas who couldn’t be more different from each other.

In her free time, Monica enjoys watching sports. Her favorite teams are the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Mavericks. She also enjoys summers at the beach and relaxing by the fireside on her deck on cool evenings.

Scott recently joined the team here at QSLM as the newest RVPS. Scott started his Senior Living career in Sales for Holiday Retirement in 2016 in East Longmeadow, MA, after a successful career in the wine and spirits industry as well as the hospitality field. He also attended Bryant University, majoring in Restaurant Management and Marketing. After learning to sell independent living at the community level, Scott worked his way into a national sales support role and relocated to Florida. He then moved into a Regional Director of Sales position, overseeing an occupancy team of sixteen sales professionals. Most recently, Scott has been a Regional VP of Operations and Sales for Holiday by Atria, and Midwest VP of Operations with Calamar Connect55 Active Adult Living Communities. Scott resides in the Nashville area. He enjoys live music, travel, and selling, and is also a die-hard fan of the Red Sox, the Bruins, the Celtics, and UConn basketball!

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Despite being raised in a military family and living in the Philippines, Japan, and the Pacific Northwest, Sheila has been blessed to live on Emerald Coast most of her life and is proud to call it her home. She graduated from the University of West Florida in 2013 with her Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design. With a design career spanning over ten years, Sheila has had the opportunity work in almost every facet of the design world, from coding and illustration to production and installation. Her favorite part of working with seniors is having her perspective changed by their wisdom and knowledge, and hearing their jokes. She enjoys supporting her fellow co-workers at The Blake, whose ideals she admires. When she isn’t at work, she is very involved at her local church, where she is the treasurer, a teacher, a singer, and the senior drummer, among other things. Her hobbies include drawing, reading psychology and philosophy books, writing, cooking, pressing flowers, gardening (badly), and studying Korean and Spanish.

Katie Boothe is The Blake's official Social Media Manager, responsible for managing the community Facebook pages, as well as the LinkedIn page. She is originally from a town outside of Dallas called Flower Mound, Texas. She moved to Pensacola for college because she wanted to go to school by the beach. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of West Florida in 2022. She also received her Digital Marketing Certificate from UWF. A hard worker, Katie worked as a Customer Service Staff member at Publix. At the same time, she was also a Digital Marketing Intern for dameSpeak, a company based out of Kansas City, Missouri, for whom she created social media content, including blogs for their website.

She loves working with seniors because they are such a fun group of individuals to work with, and they have so much to offer in terms of advice and knowledge. She says that everyone has been extremely welcoming at The Blake, and even though she's relatively new, she says, "I feel like I have been working here forever." She says that their confidence in her and her abilities has helped her to have more confidence in herself.

When she's not working, she enjoys going to the beach with her friends and family. She also enjoys traveling to different places, attending concerts, and arts and crafts are also right up her alley. She has two dogs named Sadie and Duke. Sadie is a Catahoula mix, and Duke is a Border Collie mix. They are her whole world, and they keep her on her toes.

Steve is the Financial Analyst at QSL Management. He is originally from Pace, FL. He has been with BMG/QSL previously for approximately 6 years as the Business Operations Director at The Blake in Hattiesburg, MS, and The Blake at Pensacola, FL. He retired in August of 2023 and came back on board in January of 2024. Prior to The Blake, he was with Holiday Retirement for approximately 12 years, serving as both a property manager and an HR specialist/auditor. Before that, he owned a business for a number of years, and also served in the US Navy until his retirement in 1992.

Steve's favorite part of working at QSL and working with seniors is serving others. His time away from QSL is spent mostly taking care of senior parents. He loves reading almost anything, especially history.

Amy Beck is an Accounts Payable Clerk at QSLM. She is originally from Howell, Michigan but spent most of her life in Fairfax County, Virginia before moving to the Pensacola area. She previously worked with bill entry and accounts payable at a vacation property management company, and she has also worked in accounting at a wholesale wholesale building supply company in Virginia. Her favorite part of working at QSLM is the team – "Everyone is so friendly and it reminds me of family," she says. When she isn't working, she enjoys walking around downtown Pensacola and seeing and learning about the history. She has a chihuahua named Jojo.