Richard Barnett helps healthcare and life science leaders navigate complex construction projects with a focus on quality, efficiency, and operational needs. He brings more than 40 years of construction management experience, including design-build delivery and quality assurance, with an understanding of how project decisions affect the people who use and maintain a facility.
He has led major hospital expansions and specialized clinical projects, including serving as Project Executive for owner’s project management services on Maine Medical Center’s $700 million, multiphase expansion. He balances construction demands with clinical priorities and long term facility performance.
At Keel, Richard supports healthcare and life science project delivery. He also founded the Healthcare Associated Infections Organization to address how architecture, design, construction, and maintenance can help reduce healthcare-associated infections.
Ken Colgate helps owners translate complex development plans into coordinated construction programs. He brings more than 30 years of experience leading teams across mixed-use, commercial, life science, and healthcare projects, with a practical understanding of how development priorities and construction decisions shape delivery.
His experience includes major developments in Boston’s Seaport District, including One Boston Wharf Road and Foundation Medicine’s headquarters at 400 Summer Street. He combines technical construction knowledge with experience in procurement, site infrastructure, and risk management to help teams resolve challenges, maintain accountability, and keep work moving.
As Keel’s Senior Vice President of Construction, Ken leads construction oversight across the firm’s projects. His experience with developers and contractors helps him align owners, designers, and builders around project requirements.
Bob Humenn helps healthcare leaders translate clinical priorities into clear project goals and workable facility plans. His background spans more than 45 years in healthcare planning, design, and project management, combining architectural expertise with a hands-on approach to aligning stakeholders and guiding decisions. He has led planning and delivery for hospitals, surgery centers, and cancer care facilities, including major improvements at Winchester Hospital and the Greater Boston Musculoskeletal Center.
His experience brings an understanding of how clinical operations, regulatory requirements, and construction must work together to support patient care, particularly when facilities remain occupied.
As Keel’s Healthcare Principal, Bob advises clients on project vision, scope, and delivery. His career in healthcare architecture and management informs how he guides teams through complex facility decisions while keeping the owner’s priorities central.
Michael McDonnell helps institutional leaders translate competing priorities into clear capital strategies and executable plans. His background spans engineering, real estate, strategic planning, project delivery and activation, with an entire career spent representing owners as an employee or advisor.
He has led strategy and delivery for multibillion-dollar campus and site programs across healthcare, higher education, life science and mixed-use development, including Bristol Myers Squibb’s national research portfolio redevelopment. He understands the responsibility of making consequential decisions with incomplete information while balancing immediate demands and long-term priorities.
Michael founded Keel in 2014 and has led the firm since. Previously, he headed real estate and facilities master planning at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
John Messervy helps institutional leaders align real estate and capital investment decisions with organizational priorities and long-term sustainability goals. His background spans corporate real estate strategy, institutional master planning, and large-scale development, with experience guiding healthcare, research, and office projects from concept to occupancy. He has led $4 billion in projects, primarily across Mass General Brigham’s portfolio, including Massachusetts General Hospital’s Lunder Building and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. His experience informs how he balances immediate facility needs with resilience, decarbonization, and long-term operational performance.
As Keel’s Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Development, John guides capital strategy, project development, and sustainability. Formerly Corporate Director of Design & Construction at Mass General Brigham, he brings an owner’s perspective to complex institutional decisions.
