Boston Life Sciences Summit

Mr. Stephen N. Faber serves as an Executive Vice President of Related Beal, LLC. Mr. Faber served as Senior Vice President and Partner of Related Beal, LLC(also known as The Beal Companies, LLP). Mr. Faber oversees asset and property management of Beal owned and managed real estate as well as development of real estate investments. His diverse experience includes management, leasing, sale and development of individual assets and portfolio management for a variety of property types: research and development, office, retail, multi-family and planned unit developments. Mr. Faber has managed assets in seventeen different markets from Jacksonville, Florida to Seattle, Washington. He has significant systems design and implementation experience, and has authored and published detailed Policy and Procedure Manuals for property operations. Prior to joining Beal and Company, Inc., Mr. Faber was Vice President of Property Management with the Rubin Organization in Philadelphia. Mr. Faber was responsible for the management of over 5,000 apartment and condominium residences in five states. Preceding his employment at the Rubin Organization, Mr. Faber was Director of Property Management for Liberty Real Estate Group, a Boston-based real estate subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, where he developed a fee management subsidiary serving institutions, partnerships, and individuals. Mr. Faber is a Member of Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA) and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). Mr. Faber received a BS degree in Business Administration from Boston University.

Mr. Sykes currently serves on the following Boards; The Natixis Loomis Sayles Funds Board of Trustees, Apartment Investment and Management Company (NYSE:AIV), The Eastern Bank Board of Advisors & Risk Management Committee, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston External Diversity Advisory Board, Real Estate Executive Council (Former Chairman & Emeritus), The City of Boston’s Civic Design Commission, The Urban Land Institute’s New England Advisory Board and NAIOP Massachusetts Board Management Committee. Previously, Mr. Sykes served on the following Boards: Ares Commercial Real Estate (NYSE: ACRE) Board of Directors & Compensation Committee, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Board, 2008-2014 (Chairman 2012-2014, Audit Committee, Business Practices Committee), Capital Crossing Bank Preferred REIT Board of Directors (Acquired by Lehman Brothers Bank), 2004-2009, Bank Boston & Fleet Community Bank Board of Directors 1994-2004, ICON Architects Board of Directors, 2004-2006, Mr. Sykes also served on the Board of Overseers for Beth Israel Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Boston University Medical Center and Brigham & Women’s Hospital Osher Center. Mr. Sykes is Managing Director of Accordia Partners, LLC, a Boston based real estate investment and development company. Accordia executes large scale public-private real estate projects with a goal of financial and socially responsible investing success. Previously, Mr. Sykes was the head of an urban investment, development and redevelopment commercial real estate equity fund for select institutional investors called Urban Strategy America Fund, L.P. The Fund was a true “triple bottom-line fund” focusing on investment returns, economic development and environmental sustainability. Mr. Sykes is responsible for the supervision of the partnership equity placement, the identification of investments and the day-to-day business operations of the USA Fund. Kirk Sykes combines his professional training and hands-on experience in the areas of finance, investment, development, design and construction to create customized responses to the complex issues of urban real estate development. His approach is grounded in the bottom-line driven perspective gained during his tenure as Chairman of The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and various other for-profit and non-profit board affiliations. Mr. Sykes acts as an Advisor to Basis Investment Group, a commercial real estate debt investment platform, where he provides strategic guidance and input on mezzanine debt and preferred equity investments in connection with construction loans. Mr. Sykes has been a speaker at Harvard University Business School & Kennedy School of Government, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and Center for Real Estate, Cornell University Real Estate Program and The League of Historical Cities of the World Conferences in Japan, Turkey and Australia. Mr. Sykes attended the Harvard University Business School, Owners and Presidents Management Program, the MIT Center for Real Estate Development Commercial Development Executive Program and the L’Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

Throughout his 30+year career, Joe has approached architecture as a means to explore new frontiers, provide environmental stewardship, and foster connections with communities. Life science, his current focus, is closely linked to these objectives. Joe joined SGA in October 2020 because he was impressed with the quality of the firm’s design innovation, its commitment to excellence, and the level of talent exhibited by the staff. In his new role, he oversees several projects for life science organizations in the Boston region. He establishes the design vision for these commissions, but also collaborates on their execution. Joe’s previous experience encompasses a variety of building types, including research, hospitality, healthcare, residential, corporate, and mixed-use. During his tenures at design firms HDR and TRO Jung|Brannen, he led many award-winning projects honored by such organizations as the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Preservation Massachusetts. Early in his career, he won the Rotch Traveling Scholarship, an annual two-stage design competition that enabled him to travel overseas for a year to study architecture. Joe earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Minnesota. One of his favorite activities outside of the office is traveling internationally to learn about local ecosystems. He also sketches regularly, often exhibiting his work at events. Other hobbies include cycling, gardening, and beekeeping. He observes: “Pollinators are key to the ecosystem. Beekeeping and gardening allow me to engage in stewardship of the environment, and several of my hobbies allow me to explore and discover advances in the built world. I don’t leave my passion at work.”

Jared Eigerman is a land use attorney with a joint degree in city planning and decades of practical experience, starting with internships at the Cambridge Historical Commission and the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Admitted in both California and Massachusetts, Attorney Eigerman began his career as a Deputy City Attorney (land use team) for the City & County of San Francisco before entering private practice, first in the San Francisco Bay Area and, since 2008, in Greater Boston. He represents residential, commercial, institutional, and governmental owners, developers, and investors to secure all land use permits at the federal, state, and local levels, at many scales and for a wide range of use types, including life sciences projects. His expertise includes entitlements, due diligence, strategy, community outreach, writing, and editing. He is a longstanding member of the American Planning Association (planning.org) and the Urban Land Institute (uli.org), and served four terms on the City Council of Newburyport, Massachusetts, his birthplace and home. He currently serves on Newburyport’s Zoning Board of Appeals, as well as on the board of Street Lab, a nonprofit based in New York City that creates and shares extraordinary programs for public space to improve the urban environment (streetlab.org). His interests include history, cities, and traveling with family and friends. Attorney Eigerman has an undergraduate degree in Modern European History from Harvard College, an M.C.P. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California, Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings College of the Law).

Joe Collura is Managing Partner of HelixPoint Capital, a Cambridge, MA, USA-based venture firm operating at the intersection of life sciences and drug discovery automation. HelixPoint combines an automated R&D infrastructure with a pre-seed to Series A fund to build and scale biotech companies faster, with less capital, and greater conviction. Joe’s background spans therapeutic commercialization, drug discovery & clinical R&D, and venture incubation, with a focus on accelerating drug development while reducing costs. He holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, an MS in Bioengineering from Northeastern University, and a BS in Biology from the United States Air Force Academy.

John Hynes IV joined the BGI team in 2014. Prior to his role as Project Executive of the 10 World Trade commercial development, John oversaw numerous Seaport Square projects, totaling over $150M of development in 3-years. He has also helped lead BGI’s new business efforts, and serves as the primary point of contact for project approvals with City and State agencies. Before BGI, John spent 4 years working in the finance and construction industries in Boston, North Carolina, and Miami. John holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and lives in South Boston.

Jennifer Schultz is a partner at the law firm Nixon Peabody, LLP, and the Leader of the Nationwide Real Estate Development Team. Jenn specializes personally on large-scale complex mixed-use development in and around the Boston area, Worcester, and Providence, RI. She and her team have successfully permitted over 10 million square feet of development over the last 6 years, including over 4 million square feet of lab/R&D space. Nixon’s national development team includes more than 26 lawyers and professional staff across seven offices.

Andrew Krenning is the associate managing director of the Boston office. He oversees local employees, monitors the office’s financial performance, and spearheads business development. Before joining Syska, Krenning spent 15 years at Siemens Industry, Inc., rising from the position of design engineer to solutions sales manager – construction. In the latter position he led a team of construction sales professionals, estimators, business development executives, and pre-construction project experts for the Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island market. A resident of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mr. Krenning earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University. He is a certified project management professional (PMP) and a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), New England Healthcare Engineers’ Society (NEHES), the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE), and the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL).

Martin L. Togni is a partner in the San Diego office of Allen Matkins with a practice focusing primarily on Life Sciences, representing a variety of landlords and tenants in the development and leasing of Life Science and Biotech projects. He has successfully completed major leasing transactions totaling more than 40 million square feet in California, the Midwest, and East Coast over the past 25 years, representing some of the nation's leading real estate and end-user companies. Martin also represents a wide variety of clients in the acquisition, disposition, development, financing and ground leasing of shopping centers, industrial projects, office buildings and other commercial and mixed-use projects throughout the country

Kadia is the Director of Research Operations at Fosun Pharma USA, a growing pharmaceutical company committed to improving patients’ lives by bringing affordable and innovative medicines to market. Kadia acts as part of the leadership team in incubating startup companies and operations transformation for Fosun’s global portfolio. Throughout her career, Kadia fosters relationships, negotiates partnerships to drive life science transformation projects spanning billions of dollars as the voice of the scientist. Kadia has been a highly acclaimed and award recipient for delivering results for her current work and prior companies: Agilent Technologies, Amgen, and Biogen. Prior to these large companies Kadia had humble beginnings as a bench scientist at EI Dupont and GreenLight Biosciences where she transitioned into management and operations. Kadia holds an BSc in Chemistry from Howard University, and both a MSc. in Biochemistry and Meng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

John Swift, a partner and the global science and technology practice leader, has more than 30 years of experience in high performance building systems engineering design. He has delivered solutions for research, commercial and academic facilities that require effective and reliable infrastructure for the optimization of occupant health, safety and comfort, while minimizing energy and water consumption. He is recognized as an authority in the profession, helping write standards for the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air- Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the Environmental Protection Agency – and has been an official reviewer for NIH grant submissions since 2009. His portfolio includes developments for leading research institutions such as Draper, Novartis, Brown University, MIT, and Harvard Medical School. Recently, he oversaw the completion of 400 Summer Street, the new, LEED Platinum, home for Foundation Medicine in Boston’s Seaport District.

Abigail is an Associate Principal at HGA. She has designed R&D and manufacturing facilities for industry-leading clients such as Gilead Sciences and Stanford University as well as life science core & shell projects, turn-key spec suites and lab conversions for developer clients. She understands the overlapping forces of tenant requirements, developer deal metrics, and community needs. Abigail’s specialty is marrying detailed planning and programming, with bold design thinking, and rigorous execution. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Michigan. In her free time, she serves on the Planning Board in Watertown and chases two lively toddlers around playgrounds throughout the Boston metro area.

Karen is a health and safety professional with a molecular biology background who collaborates with biotechnology companies and real estate developers across the country to develop and maintain safety programs for laboratories and the buildings which house them. Her specialties in the safety field include , OSHA regulations, emergency preparedness, ergonomics, biological and chemical safety, radiation safety, general office safety, and controlled substances. During her tenure at Safety Partners she has authored various training programs including “Real Estate Facilities Training for Multi-tenant Lab Buildings” and “Ergonomics for Working at Home.” She began her career in scientific research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her specialties in molecular biology include antibody applications, protein expression and purification, subcloning, and cell culture. In addition to her 15+ years of safety experience, Karen holds a BS in Biochemistry/Biophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University.