Stephen Richardson

Stephen A. Richardson is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. and has served in this role since April 2018. A 20-year Alexandria veteran, Mr. Richardson jointly leads the company with a long-term focus on strategic planning and revenue growth. He is a key member of the company’s COVID-19 Task Force.Most recently at Alexandria, Mr. Richardson served as Chief Operating Officer from October 2011 to April 2018, and he held positions of increasing responsibility prior to that. He served as Regional Market Director of San Francisco from July 2005 to April 2018, during which time he led the management and growth of all aspects of the region’s asset base and operations. From February 2000 to July 2005, Mr. Richardson was Vice President of Portfolio Services. Prior to joining the company, he served as a Director of CellNet Data Systems from 1993 to 2000 and was responsible for negotiating large-scale technology transactions and aggregating a national footprint of wireless spectrum. From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Richardson served as a Director of Marketing and Leasing at Paragon Group, a national real estate development company, and as a real estate broker with Schneider Commercial Real Estate, serving the Greater Silicon Valley market.Mr. Richardson currently serves on the boards of the California Life Sciences Association, the state’s most influential organization whose mission is to advance California’s world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state, and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses; and the Gladstone Foundation, a not-for-profit organization supporting the Gladstone Institutes, an independent state-of-the-art biomedical research institution.Mr. Richardson received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Literature from Claremont McKenna College and his Master of Business Administration degree from Santa Clara University.