Tom Murray

Principal/Project Manager

Tom is a local product from Natick, MA, with a B.A. in Government in 1981 from Harvard College. After a brief pro ice hockey stint in Amsterdam, he took a position with Harvard Real Estate managing construction contracts, attending the Boston Architectural Center along the way with visions of an architectural degree. The 1980’s brought a resurgent real estate market and the realization that Tom’s skills were better applied to project management (architecture was limiting, he can’t draw for a lick, better with words and numbers and critical thinking), so in 1986 Tom moved to Claremont Corporation on Federal Street in Boston as Vice President for Development, managing commercial and housing construction projects.

In 1990 Tom decided he preferred clients to bosses and founded Casali Group, named after his mother Chickie who passed in 1989. Lessons from Chickie are central to Tom’s style: hard work, patience, creativity, empathy, and accountability. She is sorely missed.

Interests: literature, movies, squash, jazz, and punk rock.