Bruce Percelay

Background

About Bruce Percelay

Bruce A. Percelay is chairman of The Mount Vernon Company, a real estate investment firm considered among the leading apartment owners in Massachusetts and also develops properties in New Hampshire, Rhode Island and South Florida. Percelay’s signature development was the Allston Green District, an eleven building assemblage which was the largest new construction project in Allston in over half a century. The three centerpiece buildings in the Green District have won over nine awards for architectural design. Percelay began his career in advertising having worked on Parker Brothers Games, Keds Sneakers, and Converse Athletic Shoes. He is also credited with the development of the idea for Sunkist Orange Soda, the most successful new soft drink launch in industry history. Percelay authored Packaging Your Home for Profit and appeared on CNN, Good Morning America and over 50 newspapers and magazines around the country. MVC’s boutique hotel division includes 21 Broad, rated by Conde Nast as the top new boutique hotel in the world, the 200-room Revolution Hotel in Boston and other properties in Nantucket, Newport, Portsmouth, and Camden. Engaged in his communities, Percelay was the driving force behind the construction of Nantucket's Whaling Museum and the Nantucket Cottage Hospital where he spearheaded a $120 million capital campaign. He is a Presidents Council Board Member of MGH, was the chairman of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and chairman of Habitat for Humanity. Percelay is currently chairman of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston. He created the Senate Project designed to encourage bipartisanship in the U.S. Senate and has developed new programs to expand the Institute’s award-winning civics program across the country. Percelay is the publisher of N Magazine, the leading publication of its kind on Nantucket which has won numerous awards from the New England Press Association for Excellence in Journalism. In recognition of his significant service to his community, Percelay was the recipient of the Ten Outstanding Leaders award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Outstanding Achievement Award from YouthBuild Boston, the John M. Connors Leadership Award at Mass General Hospital and a special commendation for his contributions to Boston which appears in the United States Congressional Record. He is responsible for the Percelay Philanthropy Award given annually by the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and has served on the board of the Rappaport Institute at the Kennedy School at Harvard University.