Mr. Portnoy is President and Chief Executive Officer of The RMR Group Inc.
(Nasdaq: RMR), a role he has held since the company’s IPO. He has also
served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The RMR Group LLC since
2005. Mr. Portnoy is the Chair of the RMR Executive Operating Committee,
executing the strategic direction for RMR and its client companies.
Mr. Portnoy also serves on the Board of RMR and the Boards of several
companies managed by RMR or its affiliates, including:
Service Properties Trust (Nasdaq: SVC),
Diversified Healthcare Trust (Nasdaq: DHC),
Office Properties Income Trust (Nasdaq: OPI),
Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (Nasdaq: ILPT),
AlerisLife (Nasdaq: ALR),
TravelCenters of America Inc. (Nasdaq: TA),
Seven Hills Realty Trust (Nasdaq: SEVN), Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (private) and Tremont Realty Capital, an SEC registered investment adviser.
Prior to joining RMR in 2003, Mr. Portnoy held various positions in the
finance industry and public sector, including working as a banker at
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and ABN AMRO, working in private equity
at the International Finance Corporation (a member of The World Bank
Group) and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, as well as serving as Chief
Executive Officer of a telecommunications company. Mr. Portnoy currently
serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Pioneer Institute, as a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and as the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria to
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and he is formerly a member of the
Board of Trustees of Occidental College and the Board of Governors of the National Association of Real
Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit). Mr. Portnoy graduated with a Bachelor’s
degree in Public Policy from Occidental College in 1993.