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Thomas N. O’Brien is the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of The HYM Investment Group, LLC. HYM is currently leading the development of over twenty (20) million square feet of mixed-use development in Greater Boston, including the following notable and complex projects: Bulfinch Crossing (the redevelopment of the Government Center Garage), Suffolk Downs and Parcel 3 in Roxbury. Prior to HYM, O’Brien served as a Managing Partner for JPI, a national developer and owner of multifamily communities, and as a Managing Director in Boston and New York for Tishman Speyer, one of the world\u2019s leading real estate firms. O’Brien also led the Boston Redevelopment Authority as its Director and Chief of Staff, overseeing the development of over 12 million Square Feet of projects in Boston, from 1993 to 2000. O’Brien has served as Chairman of The Greater Boston Real Estate Board and is Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers of The Anti-Defamation League of New England, which awarded O\u2019Brien its Abraham Joshua Heschel Interfaith Relations Award in 2016. In 2011, Governor Deval Patrick appointed O\u2019Brien to the Board of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency.\u00a0 In 2016, Mayor Martin J. Walsh appointed O\u2019Brien to the Board of Trustees of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and in 2024 Governor Maura Healey appointed him to the Board of The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. He also serves as a Board Member of the Pine Street Inn, Project 351 and the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. O\u2019Brien is a graduate of Brown University and Suffolk University Law School and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21307,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/23761\/revisions\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}