Jim Biggs is the Chief Operating Officer at Momentum Senior Living and a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Southern California Davis School of Gerontology.

Over the course of 35 years in senior housing, Jim’s highlights include overseeing 23 communities as Vice President for Life Care Services and opening 13 senior housing properties while living in China for over six years as a co-founder and managing partner of Honghui Senior Living. Jim is also co-founder of Momentum Senior Living, a boutique senior housing management company in Irvine, CA, with properties that include The Variel of Woodland Hills.

An avid preceptor, Jim has cultivated an international network to help colleagues and students get internships and employment. Jim has taught courses on “Leadership and Management of Senior Housing” and “Trends in Aging Services” to graduate students every semester at USC since 2018, including while living inside a retirement community during the pandemic. He also guest lectured at Peking University while living in China.