Kirk Sykes

Mr. Sykes currently serves on the following Boards: The Natixis Loomis Sayles Funds Board of Trustees, Apartment Investment and Management Company (NYSE: AIV), Real Estate Executive Council (Former Chairperson & Emeritus), The City of Boston’s Civic Design Commission and NAIOP Massachusetts Board Management Committee (Former Chairperson). 

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, External Diversity Advisory Board (Founder)), Capital Crossing Bank Preferred REIT Board of Directors 2004-2009, Bank Boston & Fleet Community Bank Board of Directors 1994-2004, ICON Architects Board of Directors and The Urban Land Institute’s New England Advisory Board 2004-2024, Mr. Sykes also served on the Board of Overseers for Beth Israel Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Boston University Medical Center and Brigham Osher Center. 

Mr. Sykes is Co-Managing Partner 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. Mr. Sykes is also a Partner in Boston Real Estate Inclusion Fund (BREIF), a Commercial Real Estate Investment vehicle for retail investors. Previously, Mr. Sykes was President of Urban Strategy America Fund, L.P. (2005-2012), focused on urban investment, development, and redevelopment of commercial real estate equity for select institutional investors. 

Mr. Sykes has been a speaker at Harvard University Business School & Kennedy School of Government, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, MIT’s 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 Executive Program and the L’Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. Board Certifications: Cybersecurity Governance for The Board of Directors, MIT Sloan Executive Education, November 2023, ESG Navigating the Boards Role, Issued by Berkeley Law, Executive Education, October 2022