Mortimer Zuckerman
Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman is a Canadian-American media proprietor, magazine editor, and investor. He is the co-founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Boston Properties, one of the largest real estate investment trusts in the United States.
- Real estate icon Mortimer Zuckerman stepped down as Boston Properties chairman in May 2016, ending nearly five decades running the REIT.
- The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants who settled in Montreal and sold tobacco and candy, Zuckerman founded Boston Properties in 1970.
- Zuckerman became a U.S. citizen in 1977, and took Boston Properties public two decades later, in June 1997.
- He owns roughly 5% of the public company, which operates a diverse portfolio of primarily office space totaling nearly 50 million square feet.
- He sold The NY Daily News in 2017 after owning it for 24 years. He is still editor-in-chief, co-publisher and owner of U.S. News & World Report.
