Matt Kelly is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of JBG SMITH. Before the formation of JBG SMITH, he served as a managing partner of the JBG Companies and was co-head of JBG’s Investments Group and primarily responsible for investment strategy and the investment and acquisition activity of the JBG Investment Funds. Prior to joining the JBG Companies in 2004, Kelly cofounded the media software company ODAC Inc. and worked in private equity and investment banking with Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston and Goldman Sachs, & Co in New York.

Kelly currently serves as chairman of the board of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. In addition to his board position at the Urban Institute, he is a member of the board of MedStar Health. Kelly is also past chairman of Nareit and past chairman of the board of the Medstar Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in Washington, DC. He is a member of the faculty at the Harvard Business School where he is the Schuster Family Fellow and serves as an executive in residence of the Steers Center at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. 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.