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Welcome to the new Downtown BID Board of Directors officers and members for fiscal year 2010.
 
Bradley Edwards, general manager of the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel (999 9th Street), will serve as chairman. He has been a Board member since the BID was founded in 1997 and has served as a first vice chair, secretary and treasurer. Edwards succeeds Matt Klein, president of Akridge (601 13th Street), who served two terms as chairman.
 
In addition to Edwards, the following Board members will assume a one-year term as officers effective October 1:

  • First Vice-Chair, Peter Johnston, senior vice president and regional manager of Boston Properties (505 9th Street) 
  • Second Vice-Chair, Robert Braunohler, vice president of operations and development for Louis Dreyfus Property Group
  • Secretary, Jane Taylor, chief marketing officer for Washington Sports & Entertainment (601 F Street), serving her second term
  • Treasurer, Michael McCarthy, vice president and director of acquisitions for Quadrangle Development Corporation (1001 G Street)

The Downtown BID also welcomed new Board of Directors member Chase Rynd, president and executive director of the National Building Museum (401 7th Street). He begins a three-year term that ends in September 2012.
 
In fiscal year 2009, the Board appointed Bart Bush, regional commissioner, Public Buildings Service, for the General Services Administration, NCR and Gregory A. O’Dell, chief executive officer and general manager at the Washington Convention Center Authority (801 Mount Vernon Place) to replace executives who left their organizations. Both were confirmed by the membership to complete terms that expire in September 2010. In addition, Merrick T. Malone, a trustee and former chair of The Historical Society of Washington, DC (801 K Street), was confirmed to complete a term that expires in September 2011. 
 
 For a complete list of Downtown BID Board members, go to www.downtowndc.org.