BOK Financial has named industry-veteran Jim Thompson as senior vice president and director of senior housing investments for the Healthcare Banking division.

In his new role, Thompson will help lead the organization’s efforts across its nationwide senior housing financing activities, working closely with the existing BOK Financial Healthcare Banking professionals.

“Healthcare banking has evolved into an area of expertise for BOK Financial over the past five years,” said Brad Vincent, director of Healthcare Banking. “Adding Jim to an existing team that has had tremendous success in making BOK Financial a nationally-recognized name in healthcare banking will further strengthen this area of growing opportunity for the organization.”

Before joining BOK Financial, Thompson was with Synovus Bank for six years as a senior director within the senior housing and healthcare lending group. Before his time with Synovus, he was a senior vice president and managing director with Capmark Finance, formerly known as GMAC Commercial Mortgage, where he co-managed a portfolio of senior housing and skilled nursing loans of approximately $1 billion in size. Thompson led the senior housing and long-term care lending efforts at Colonial Bank before joining Capmark in 1998.