Ranne P. Warner
Ms. Warner is President of Ranne P. Warner and Company, Inc. and Centros Properties USA. For nearly 30 years, Ms. Warner has been active in real estate at the local, national, and international levels. She has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate development, consulting, strategic planning, construction, finance, and property management.
In 2001 she formed Blackstone Exchange LLC to develop Riverfront Lofts, an 110,000 sq. ft. historic mill on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, into 59 artist live-work condominium lofts. This project has served as a catalyst for the revitalization of this historic mill community.
In 1980, Ms. Warner founded Centros Properties USA in partnership with two English developers, and built the firm's portfolio from $0 to $100 million in value invested in over one-half million square feet of first-quality commercial real estate.
She is a founder and was the first President of New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE), a professional organization for Boston area women in the real estate business. She was also the first woman President of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), and the first woman president of the Boston Chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA). She has served on the BOMA Board of Directors and the Greater Boston Real Estate Board of Directors.
Ms. Warner has been an active member of the Boston preservation community, serving for fifteen years as a Trustee for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA), now known as Historic New England. From 1984 to 1986, she served as President of the Board of Trustees and as Secretary from 1986 to 1990. She has served as a Director of Historic Boston, a preservation revolving fund, and a Trustee for the Boston Foundation for Architecture. She co-authored with her architect husband the book, New Profits from Old Buildings, which was published by McGraw-Hill.
Since its incorporation in l987 she has served as a Director and a member of the Executive Committee of Wainwright Bank and Trust, a commercial bank in Boston with retail and private banking services
Ms. Warner received her Master’s Degree with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, where she was awarded the James Thomas Chirurg Fellowship, and holds an undergraduate degree in advertising from the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism.
