Jerry L. Rappaport, Jr.

Jerry Rappaport, Jr., President and CEO, founded the New Boston Fund in 1992, creating one of America’s most nimble and innovative real estate investment firms. Under his leadership, New Boston has raised more than $1 billion in discretionary equity, and built or acquired 20 million square feet of commercial property and nearly 7,000 housing units. Through value-add repositioning as well as the development of commercial and residential properties across the Eastern U.S., New Boston has created highly diversified portfolio. With more than 25 years of experience in real estate investment and development, Mr. Rappaport leads the New Boston Fund guided by longstanding core values to operate with integrity and to care about the communities in which the firm invests. His commitment to those principles is embodied in New Boston’s $200 million Urban Strategy America ("USA") Fund, funded by some of the premier financial institutions in the world, which executes on the promise of a triple bottom line - generating solid returns to investors, spurring economic development and workforce housing, and promoting environmental sustainability. Mr. Rappaport is also a past president of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, a member of the board of directors for the Massachusetts chapter of NAIOP and founding co-chairman of the Commonwealth Housing Taskforce, a broad-based coalition formed to address the state housing production and affordability crisis. He has filled long-term leadership roles at the local and national levels for the Urban Land Institute and he is active in the Rental Housing Association, Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Pension and Real Estate Association (PREA), National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM), Real Estate Finance Association (REFA), and the MIT Center for Real Estate. He has been a long-term visiting lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and is a founding member of the Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative. He has received a life time achievement award from the Real Estate Finance Association, a Civic Achievement Award from B’nai B’rith and is a trustee of the ULI Foundation. Mr. Rappaport received an AB from Harvard College, and a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.