Boston, MA IREM Boston has been very active the winter and spring with many great events.  

The chapter held the IREM CPM Capstone with 19 student who took a week long extremely intensive exam. Best of luck students!

The chapter held the Governmental Luncheon Meeting on Wednesday, May 22^nd at Seaport Hotel. The speaker at this event was Brian Golden, BPDA chief executive.

As director, Golden functions as the BPDA’s chief executive. He oversees the agency’s core missions of community-engaged planning, regulation of major real estate development, management of the BPDA’s real property (11 million s/f), and workforce training programs. An attorney since 1993, Golden is a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of the city. He was also the New England regional director at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy, and a member of the board of directors at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. 

Golden has served as a U.S. Army officer, active duty and reserve, for more than twenty years. His military experience includes duty in Bosnia, Iraq, and Israel/West Bank. He is a graduate of the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. He received a master’s degree from the U.S. Army War College and a law degree from the College of William and Mary’s School of Law.

In addition, four new Accredited Residential Managers (ARM) were sworn in at the event. They include:

• Glendalis Cohen, APT Management Group, Inc.;

• Margaret McCluskey, Brockton Housing Authority;

• Jennifer Fairman-Hatfield, POAH Communities; and 

• Ivette Casey, Wingate Management Co.