Donald Everett Axinn is a Trustee of Brandywine Realty Trust. Mr. Axinn was first elected a Trustee on October 6 1998. Mr. Axinn is the founder and chairman of the Donald E. Axinn Companies an investment firm and developer of office and industrial parks throughout the New York metropolitan area. He has published two novels and eight books of poetry and has produced a film SPIN from his novel of the same name. He has served on the board of The American Academy of Poets the advisory board for Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and was recently Chairman of The Nature Conservancy Long Island Chapter. A graduate of Middlebury College and holder of a masters degree in Humanities he has also been awarded five honorary doctorates. Mr. Axinn has also served as an Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Hofstra University. In 1983 he co-founded the Interfaith Nutrition Network which provides shelters and kitchens for the homeless and hungry on Long Island |