Ray Ritchey serves as Senior Executive VP of BXP. Prior to his appointment to this position in January 2016, Mr. Ritchey served as Executive Vice President, Head of the Washington, DC Office and National Director of Acquisitions and Development, and since April 1998, Senior Vice President and Co-Manager of the DC office. Mr. Ritchey is responsible for all business development, leasing and marketing, and new opportunity origination in the DC area. He also directly oversees similar activities on a national basis.

Mr. Ritchey is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received his Master of Science in Management from the U.S. Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California.

David Cheek is the Co-Founder of The Meridian Group (TMG) and is responsible for the overall leadership and strategic direction of the firm as its Chairman and Managing Partner. He has over 40 years of industry experience.

Prior to founding TMG in 1993, Mr. Cheek managed and sold a REO portfolio for Riggs Bank. For eight years before Riggs, he managed the development operations for a large DC development firm, Peterson Companies. He began his career in 1979 in the real estate division at Prudential as an investment manager.

Mr. Cheek received his B.A. from Centre College and M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.