Paul Barrett - Founding Partner and Chairman 

Paul L. Barrett is the founding partner and Chairman of 4immune Therapeutics and is the Director of Government Relations and Operations.

Over his professional career Mr. Barrett has spent considerable time in both public service through city government in the City of Boston and in state government in Rhode Island and in the private sector. In his private business career, he’s been a principal in real estate development, finance, the energy sector, government advisory work, and other related businesses.

Mr. Barrett was formerly the Director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority the sole planning and development agency for the City of Boston and served in that capacity until he was appointed by Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, to Rhode Island State Secretary of Economic Development as well as Executive Director of the Rhode Island Port Authority. He also served as served as Executive Director of several business loan programs as well as two state bond-financing agencies that issued state bond financing as well as state guarantees for economic development projects.

After he left government service, Mr. Barrett was co-founder of National Energy Choice, the first company licensed in Massachusetts and New England to sell retail electricity upon the deregulation of the electricity markets. He later became the Northeast Director for the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust, a $5 Billion fixed income fund that invests union funds and public pension funds in multi-family housing developments across the country. 

Mr. Barrett became the Managing Director for the Northeast for Equity Residential (EQR: NYSE) a residential Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and responsible for the permitting and development of over $700 MM in development in Boston and Cambridge, He was the founding Chairman of the Xenotherapeutics Foundation dedicated to the use of genetically modified swine skin as coverage for acute burn injuries.

In 2013 Barrett authored the Walsh for Mayor Economic Development Plan and was co-author of Massachusetts Republican Governor Charlie Baker’s Economic Development Plan when Governor Baker was elected to the governor’s office in 2014.

Mr. Barrett, is a graduate of Boston College and earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Business – Greater Boston Executive Program.