Mr. Edward H. Linde serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Properties and has been a director since June 23, 1997. Mr. Linde co-founded Boston Properties in 1970 after spending five years at Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, where he became Vice President and Senior Project Manager. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a Director of Jobs for Massachusetts, and is a member of The Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Linde is a past chairman of the Board of the Beth Israel Hospital, which subsequently merged to become the Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, where he serves as a trustee. Mr. Linde received a BS in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962 and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His son, Douglas T. Linde, serves as our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. |