Sarah K. Abrams is President of Fidelity Real Estate Company (FREC), a division of Fidelity Investments and leads the organization responsible for providing the full range of corporate real estate services to Fidelity’s business units both nationally and internationally.  She oversees a portfolio in excess of 10.0 million sf including four mission critical data centers and an annual capital budget of $500 million.  

Prior to joining Fidelity in 1996, Ms. Abrams was a Senior Vice President at USTrust, a Boston based bank where she ran the Real Estate Owned and Environmental Risk Departments.  From 1988 to 1992, Ms. Abrams owned and operated the Trover Company, a real estate development and consulting firm.  Ms. Abrams began her career as a Project Manager for the Kirkland Group, a developer of multi-family housing.

In addition to her full-time responsibilities, Ms. Abrams served as an adjunct associate professor of law at the Cornell Law School from 1990-1993 and as an instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate in the fall of 1994, where she co-taught the core legal course. 

Ms. Abrams holds a BA degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Boston University, a JD degree from the Cornell Law School and a Master of Science degree in real estate development from the Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology’s Center for Real Estate.

Ms. Abrams serves as Treasurer of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), is Executive Vice President of the New England Chapter of CORENET Global, served for 4 years on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Industrial Development Finance Authority, is a member and past president of New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE), a past director of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), and a member of the Real Estate Finance Association. 

Ms. Abrams lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband, Allan Cole and their son, Eli.

Revised March 5, 2008
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