2023 Honoree

Ronald M. Druker, president of The Druker Company, Ltd., has been involved in a variety of development activities. The company’s specialty has been to focus not on one particular segment of real estate, but, rather, to be involved in all facets of the industry. His firm has developed mixed-use projects such as The Heritage On The Garden, facing Boston’s Public Garden, as well as suburban shopping centers, regional malls, urban and suburban office buildings, residential developments, and hotels. Recognized for his diversity in project types, Druker’s developments have also received awards from Boston’s Preservation Alliance. His company currently owns and manages two hotels in Boston.

Active in civic and philanthropic endeavors in the Boston community, Druker serves or has served on the boards of Beth Israel Hospital, Belmont Hill School, Friends of the Public Garden, Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the New England Aquarium, Boston Foundation for Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Franklin & Marshall College and others. He has also served on the boards of the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Children’s Museum.

Druker is an active member of the Downtown Crossing Business Improvement District, which he helped found, the Boylston Street Zoning Committee, and PruPac, the citizen’s review group which oversaw the redevelopment of the Prudential Center. He was chairman of the Artery Business Design Review Committee that helped to determine what was to be designed and developed over the twenty-seven acres resulting from the depression of the Central Artery, and he is also a member of ABC’s executive committee.

Druker completed his undergraduate studies at Franklin & Marshall College and his graduate studies at Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He was also a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he has served as a member of the Visiting Committee, the Dean’s Leadership Council and has chaired the Strategic Planning Committee.