Stephen R. Karp (born 1941) is an American real estate developer and billionaire.
[1] Karp worked construction during the summer while attending Boston University[2] where he graduated.
After school, he worked for a real estate development firm whom he convinced to partner with him to develop a shopping center in Danvers, Massachusetts named the Liberty Tree Mall,[2] one of the first enclosed malls in the Northeast.
[3] In 2013, Karp received the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) Edwin N. Sidman Leadership Award.
[5] He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Boston Children's Hospital, as a trustee and chairman of Children's Hospital Trust, and as chairman of the Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Care; he also served on the Board of Trustees of Boston University, Belmont Hill School, and the Boston Youth Sanctuary.