Matt Kelly is the CEO of JBG SMITH and a member of the board of trustees. Before the formation of JBG SMITH, Kelly was a managing partner of the JBG Companies and cohead of JBG’s Investments Group and primarily responsible for investment strategy and the investment and acquisition activity of the JBG Investment Funds. Before joining the JBG Companies in 2004, he was a cofounder of the media software company ODAC Inc. and worked in private equity and investment banking with Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston and Goldman Sachs in New York City.

Kelly currently serves as chairman of the board of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. In addition to his position on the Urban Institute board of trustees, he is a member of the board of MedStar Health. He is also past chairman of Nareit and past chairman of the board of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Kelly is a faculty member at the Harvard Business School and is an executive in residence of the Steers Center for Global Real Assets at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kelly holds an AB with honors from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.