Richard L. Friedman

Who is Richard L. Friedman?

Richard L. Friedman is a prominent businessman and real estate developer involved in numerous business, civic, and charitable endeavors. Friedman is the President and CEO of Carpenter & Company, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a private firm involved in real estate and private investments. Carpenter specializes in creative hotel development and the adaptive reuse of historic structures into high-end hotels. In 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed Friedman Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission. In 2010, Mr. Friedman was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Export Council. In May 2013, Mr. Friedman was elected as Director of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, a global luxury hotel company which is based in Toronto, Canada. In June 2014, the Boston Globe reported that Friedman was developing a $700 Million 60 story Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residencies in Boston's Back Bay. The building would be the tallest building to be built in New England in the last 40 years.