Boston Properties

Mr. Mortimer B. Zuckerman serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Properties, Inc. and has been a director since June 23, 1997. Mr. Zuckerman co-founded Boston Properties in 1970 after spending seven years at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes where he rose to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He is also Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report and Chairman and Publisher of the New York Daily News. He serves as trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering and he is also a member of the JPMorgan National Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He is also a former Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale University and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Mr. Zuckerman was awarded the Commandeur De L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Guild Hall and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architecture in New York. Mr. Zuckerman is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal where he received an undergraduate degree in 1957 and a degree in law in 1961. He received an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1961 and an LLM from Harvard University in 1962. He has also received three honorary degrees. He is 71 years old.

Edward H. Linde was Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Boston Properties Inc., one of the country’s largest Real Estate Investment Trusts until his death in January 2010.

Mr. Linde began his career at Boston’s Cabot Cabot and Forbes in 1965 where he started as a project manager and quickly became a partner responsible for the firm’s national development activities including 28 State Street and One Boston Place in Boston. Five years later in 1970, Mr. Linde left the firm to found Boston Properties with Mortimer B. Zuckerman.

Mr. Linde led Boston Properties’ transition from a private company to a public company in 1997 and helped assemble and develop of some of the nation’s most iconic office buildings, including the Prudential Center in Boston, Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, the General Motors Building, 601 Lexington Avenue (formerly Citigroup Center), 399 Park Avenue in New York City, and 505 9th Street, 901 New York Avenue, Market Square North in Washington, DC.

At the time of his death, Mr. Linde was serving as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as a member of the Visiting Committee to the Department of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and as a Director of Jobs for Massachusetts. Also, he was serving on the President’s Advisory Council on Regional Engagement at MIT and as a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Visiting Committee for Hematologic Oncology. In October of 2009, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, he became a member of the Board of Directors of WGBH and Boston World Partnerships. For 11 years, Mr. Linde served as Chairman of the Board of the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and was a Trustee for Life of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, formed when the Beth Israel Hospital merged with the Deaconess Hospital.