Gary Cambell

Director at MassDevelopment

Gary Cambell is Chief Executive Officer of Gilbert Campbell Real Estate, a company that owns and manages 2,000 units of rental housing in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He is responsible for management operations, as well as developing and acquiring new rental communities for the company, which include market rate and Chapter 40B projects. He is a builder-member of the National Association of Home Builders, and current New England National Area Chair, as well as current Vice Chair of the Housing Finance Committee, past Chair of the NAHB Multifamily Council Board of Trustees, and past President of the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Massachusetts.

He previously spent 16 years working in television news, with NBC News in New York and London, and as Chief of the CNN Paris Bureau. He also had his own television production company based in London.

He is currently serving as Chair of the Board of the integrated health system Wellforce, and also as Co-chair of the Lowell Plan. He is the former Chair of the Board of Circle Health and Lowell General Hospital, and past Chair of the Board of Pike School in Andover. He is also currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Pioneer Institute.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, a CPM designation through IREM, a Real Estate Broker’s License as well as a General Contractor’s License from MA.

He is married with three grown children.