Fortress Investment Group is a US-based and listed investment manager that happens to be invested in some of America’s largest operators of senior living facilities. But when it decided in 2012 to join forces with Shanghai-based Fosun International to become one of the first entrants into the Chinese retirement community market, with a “continuing care” facility in Shanghai, it came “with a very open mind” about what would and wouldn’t work, according to Lilly Donohue, the passionate and determinedly hands-on managing director of Fortress and chief executive of Shanghai Starcastle Senior Living, as the now-open facility is called. By Helen Burggraf