Kenneth W. Hecht
Principal

As the key Principal of the firm, Kenneth W. Hecht is primarily responsible for the identification and evaluation the Company’s acquisitions, the development of the properties, the securing of acquisition and permanent financing and overseeing the leasing of the properties. Ken’s extensive commercial real estate experience includes Property Acquisition, Investment Sales Brokerage, Investment Analysis, Property Management, and Leasing. Ken has been in the commercial real estate business since 1986. Ken’s recent experience has been as founder and President of The Hecht Company, a Retail Brokerage and Development firm founded in August of 2001. The Hecht Company completed 4 Million Square Feet of Wal-Mart transactions on behalf of Wal-Mart. In December of 2006, Hecht Development was founded in order to further focus on the development of the firm's equity portfolio.

From 1991 to 2001, prior to founding The Hecht Company and then Hecht Development in 2006, Ken rose to Senior Vice President and Partner at CB Richard Ellis Whittier Partners, the largest commercial real estate services firm in the world. There he founded the Retail Advisory Group, which specialized in the sale of large retail investment properties. While at CB Richard Ellis Whittier Partners, Ken sold or leased over $500,000,000 worth of commercial real estate including over $100,000,000 of retail assets. Ken has completed a number of complex joint ventures, 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, long term ground leases, land sales for hotel development and leasehold interest sales. Ken’s largest retail investment sale was $32,000,000. While a partner at CB Richard Ellis Whittier Partners and previously at Coldwell Banker Commercial, Ken received a number of awards including the CB Richard Ellis Whittier Partners Team Player of the Year Award, the CB Richard Ellis Navigator Award for Retail Advisory Excellence, The CB Commercial Rookie of the Year Award for the Northeastern United States, The Coldwell Banker Commercial Top 5 Award, and the Multi-Million Dollar Sales Club Award from the Greater Boston Real Estate Board. Prior to being in the commercial real estate business, Ken had his own time management training company for 3 years with clients which included GTE, National Semi-Conductor, Motorola, John Hancock, Prudential, Mutual of Omaha and Century 21. While running his own company, Ken achieved numerous production awards on a national basis. Prior to the time management business, Ken was an engineer working on high-level industrial projects across the country including the construction of a liquid natural gas importation terminal control tower in Everett, Massachusetts, a position that first brought him to Boston from the mid-west.

Ken was born on the south side of Chicago and received his Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. There he became a member of the Civil Engineering Grade Point Honorary, Chi Epsilon. While moving around the country working on various engineering and construction projects, he also studied for a Masters Degree in Business Administration at Lamar University in Texas, Washington University in St. Louis and at Northeastern University in Boston. Ken has been coaching soccer and baseball for 13 years in Concord, Massachusetts and is the former strength coach for the Concord-Carlisle High School Wrestling Team. Ken is the Chairman of the Delta Upsilon Alumni Board for The University of Illinois Chapter.

Ken resides in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.