Advisory Board Member
Richard is a strategist, connector, and seasoned real estate developer who currently holds dual professional assignments as the Chairman of the Taylor Smith Group where he manages multiple real estate business entities including a development company and their real estate commercial brokerage company. Simultaneously, he serves as the Founding Director of the Center for Real Estate at Suffolk University. His current positions have leveraged his corporate business interests, his civic engagement activities and his public service. After graduating from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, he began his career at the Boston Consulting Group before eventually migrating into a role of Division Vice President at Fidelity Investments. Richard is presently a Co-Developer of the Omni Boston Seaport Hotel with The Davis Companies and hospitality guru Robin Brown.
In addition to a JD and an MBA from Harvard University, Richard obtained a bachelor’s from Boston University (where he became the first Rhodes Scholar in the history of the university), and a master’s degree from University of Oxford. He was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Engineering Technology by Wentworth Institute of Technology and the Honorary Doctor of Public Service from Bridgewater State College.
Richard served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, as a Trustee of both Boston University and Cambridge College, and an Overseer of Wentworth Institute of Technology in addition to a lifetime of service with the NAACP and involvement with the Urban League.