Bo Menkiti

Bo Menkiti is dedicated to transforming lives, careers, and communities through real estate. With a focus on strengthening neighborhoods and fostering urban economic development, Bo is committed to creating positive impact through strategic real estate initiatives.

Bo Menkiti is the Founder and CEO of The Menkiti Group, a vertically integrated real estate company dedicated to neighborhood transformation with a double bottom line—measuring success through financial returns and lasting community impact.

Before founding The Menkiti Group in 2004, Bo began his career in management consulting and went on to serve as Chief Operating Officer of College Summit, a national non-profit focused on expanding college access for low-income students. There, he saw firsthand how opportunity could reshape the trajectory of lives and communities—an insight that ultimately inspired him to build a real estate company with impact at its core.

Since then, he has overseen $400MM of investment and more than 4.7M SF of development, with over 3.5M SF currently in the pipeline, including catalytic projects across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. Through the Obsidian Catalyst Fund I, he is advancing access to capital for minority and under-represented developers nationwide.

Bo is also the Founder, and for twenty years, served as the CEO of Keller Williams Capital Properties. Under his leadership, KWCP closed over $30B in sales, assisted 60,000 families in realizing the Power of Home, was recognized as the largest black-owned brokerage in America, and the second fastest growing real estate brokerage of any kind in the U.S.

His leadership has been recognized nationally—named by Ernst & Young as 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, 2022 Developer of the Year by DCBIA, honored as 2022 CEO of the Year by Washington Business Journal, named to the industry-coveted Swanepoel Power 200 List multiple years, and received the Marcia Lamb Award for Inner City Innovation by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. His work has been featured in David Bornstein’s book on social entrepreneurs, How to Change the World, and in Stephen Goldsmith’s The Power of Social Innovation, and he has been recognized nationally by Ebony and Inc. magazines as one of the most remarkable young entrepreneurs in America.

Committed to creating pathways to opportunity through entrepreneurship and social impact, he currently serves as a Founding Board member of Founders Bank, a Founding Board Member of the CPMG Foundation, a Board Member of DCBIA, and is a trustee of the Roxbury Latin School and the Federal City Council. He has also served as a former President of the DC Association of Realtors, former Board member of Washington First Bank (a NASDAQ traded community bank, former Vice Chair of the Board of City First Bank, former Board Chair of the Meyer Foundation, and was a mayoral appointee to the board of DC Water.

A graduate of Harvard University and the Roxbury Latin School, a former two-sport Division I athlete, and father of four boys, Bo brings vision, discipline, and a deep commitment to transforming lives, careers, and communities through real estate.