SVN International CEO Kevin Maggiacomo Passes Away at 50

Kevin Maggiacomo. Image courtesy of SVN International.

Kevin Maggiacomo, president & CEO of commercial real estate advisory firm SVN International, has died in his sleep at age 50.

Prior to his tenure at SVN, Maggiacomo had been a vice president at Boston-based RTE Group. He joined SVN in 2001 as a regional director before being appointed CEO in 2010.

“Even at a young age he had the ability to instill confidence in people at every level from the receptionist to the CEO,” RTE Founder & CEO Gary Cole told Commercial Property Executive.  “He had the uncanny ability to be clear and set expectations without ever being pushy.  He made a great contribution to our company and an even greater one to the industry as a whole.”  

Magiacomo grew SVN from a national firm with seven offices to an international enterprise with more than 200 offices and 2,000 advisors in eight countries. Today, SVN manages more than 57 million square feet of space and has completed $20.4 billion in sales and lease transactions. Under Maggiacomo’s leadership, SVN has consistently ranked among CPE’s most powerful management and brokerage firms. In 2016, he was voted CPE‘s Executive of Year. 

Maggiacomo was known within the company for his charisma and admirable nature. “Kevin was an inspiring, visionary leader, with tremendous energy and contagious positivity,” reflected Gabriel Silverstein, managing director of SVN, Institutional Capital Markets Chair. “The growth trajectory that he led SVN through, doing so in good markets and bad, is enviable.” 

According to Silverstein, SVN grew in 2020-2021 when many others firms contracted. “He will be sorely missed, personally and professionally, but what he built will stand as his professional legacy for a very long time to come,” he noted. 

Carol Hansen, CEO of Tatonka Education Services, recalled Maggiacomo’s support of women in leadership and his belief in the power created by diverse teams and boards. “He led by example in the way he ran SVN International and often shared that he saw higher returns because of this leadership diversity,” she commented.

Maggiacomo is survived by his wife and five children.