Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation has announced that the organization’s president, Mason Ayres, has decided to retire effective Sept. 30, 2022. Ayres has served in this role since 2016.  Under his leadership, the healthcare foundation has raised more than $100 million, including a gift of $25 million from the Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation for the Brian D. Jellison Cancer Institute and a $10 million gift from Target Corp. chairman and CEO Brian Cornell and his wife Martha to support the creation of the Cornell Family Behavioral Health Pavilion on the SMH-Sarasota Campus.