Mr. Portnoy has been a Managing Trustee of
Office
Properties Income Trust (Nasdaq: OPI) since 2009 and has served as Chair of the Board since 2019. Mr. Portnoy is a Managing Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of
The RMR
Group (Nasdaq: RMR) and is the Chair of the RMR Management Committee. He also serves the Boards of RMR client companies, including: Service Properties
Trust (Nasdaq:
SVC), Diversified Healthcare
Trust (Nasdaq: DHC), Industrial Logistics
Properties Trust (Nasdaq: ILPT), Seven Hills Realty
Trust (Nasdaq: SEVN), AlerisLife Inc. (Private), 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. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Pioneer Institute, as a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of the Greater Boston Chamber of
Commerce, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance, as a member of the Board of Directors
of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and as the Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 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).