executive profiles
Gerald D. Cohen, Founder and Principal
Gerald D. Cohen (“Jerry”) is a founding partner of SSG Development, LLC, and founder and manager of SF Properties, LLC, SF Properties, Inc., (“SF Properties”) and CGI Companies with expertise in financing, leasing, developing and managing real estate.
Mr. Cohen is in charge of financing and strategic planning for SSG Development. Over the last two years, SSG has developed 6 self storage facilities along the east coast. In addition, he operates over 25 properties consisting of shopping centers, downtown store blocks and office buildings. SF Properties, Inc. has extensive experience in the renovation and restoration of properties throughout Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cohen was a founder and organizer of Commonwealth National Bank (2001), a nationally chartered bank in Worcester, Massachusetts. The bank was acquired by United Bank in late 2009. He had served as a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and Chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee.
Mr. Cohen currently serves as a member of the Board of Overseers at The Children’s Hospital in Boston; member of Kellogg’s Graduate School of Management’s Real Estate Research Center Advisory Board and Kellogg Alumni Council; member of Brown University’s Corporation Committee on Facilities and Design and its Strategic Long Range Committee and Chairman of the Real Estate Sub-Committee; Overseer of the Museum of Science; member of the President of Bowdoin College’s Visiting Committee; and member of the Executive Board of the New England Anti- Defamation League. Mr. Cohen was appointed (11/07) by the Governor of Massachusetts to serve as a Director of MassDevelopment and elected its Vice Chairman (2/10). Mr. Cohen also serves as Chairman of MassDevelopment’s Origination and Credit Committee.
Mr. Cohen was a Member of Mass HEFA (1989 – 1991).
Mr. Cohen is a licensed Massachusetts and New York real estate broker.
A graduate of Brown University (1975) and received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1979).
Steve Boulanger, Controller of SF Properties, Inc.
Steve Boulanger has been Controller of SF Properties, Inc. since April, 1998. Steve graduated from Northeastern University in June 1983 with a Major in Accounting. He began his career with Prudential Development in Los Angeles, California as a Project Accountant. Since then, he has been involved in all aspects of real estate asset management, including acquisition, disposition, leasing, investment analysis and reporting. Prior to joining SF, Steve spent several years working exclusively on retail portfolios for The Hutensky Group in Hartford, CT, and Gravestar, Inc. in Boston, MA.