Toby Bozzuto- Artistically Providing Sanctuary (#90)

Bio As President and CEO of The Bozzuto Group, Toby Bozzuto provides strategic and day-to-day leadership for more than 3,000 employees across the country and guides future growth of Bozzuto’s homebuilding, multifamily development, construction and management divisions. Celebrating 35 years in business in 2023, Bozzuto manages 88,000 apartments and three million square feet of retail space across the U.S., has $1.2 billion in its construction pipeline and averages three development starts per year. Bozzuto has been nationally recognized as a Great Place to Work and named a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for seven consecutive years and a Top Company for Executive Women by Seramount for four consecutive years. An active contributor to his community, Toby serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Colgate University, a member of the Board of Visitors for the Shock Trauma Center at The University of Maryland Medical Center and an executive committee member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. He previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees for The Gilman School and Kennedy Krieger Institute, on the National Advisory Board for ULI’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, as a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and as a gubernatorial appointee to the Maryland Health and Higher Education Facilities Authority. A regular guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School Executive Education program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Georgetown University, Cornell University, the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, Toby strives to share his insight and passion for creating community. Toby is happily married and the proud father of three beautiful children. He is an avid musician, a rare book collector and enjoys cooking for his family. Show Notes Origins & Parental Influences His Father, Tom, was selfless in handing over the reins to him. He became President a few years before taking over as CEO in 2015 to learn the broader perspective of the company. The company still has the same culture as it was 35 years ago. (8:40) Born in Baltimore and lives there now. (10:00) His Dad started the company in 1988 when he was 14 yrs. old (10:25) He attended Gilman School in Baltimore (10:15) His Mom was a profound impact on him in a business sense- she was valedictorian of her HS class (11:00) He’s involved both in business and philanthropy in Baltimore (11:30) He was taken on site visits when he was very young (11:45) Worked as a laborer on a construction site when he was 16 yrs. old (12:00) Education & Brief Music Career Attended Colgate University and loved it (12:45) Served as a Trustee and is the incoming Board Chair of the Trustees there (13:15) Several building projects (13:45) Liberal Arts education was multidisciplinary (14:45) Music minor (15:15) Context to humanities (15:45) His Mom passed on her music passion to him (16:15) Played in a band every weekend while in college (17:00)