As Senior Vice President of the Carl M. Freeman Companies and General Manager of the Commercial Real Estate business segment, Mike is responsible for the development, redevelopment, leasing and property management of the Company’s neighborhood shopping centers – which total 2.5 million square feet of retail space and span the Mid-Atlantic region – and the management of several properties owned by others. Under Mike’s leadership, the retail portfolio has grown by 500% and the commercial real estate team has completed nearly $300 million in acquisition, disposition, redevelopment and new development efforts.

Prior to starting with the Company in 1996, Mike was a loan officer for Commercial Credit Corporation and for the American Industrial Loan Association.

Mike earned an associates’ of arts degree in business management from Holy Cross Junior College in Notre Dame, Indiana; a bachelor’s of science degree in consumer economics from the University of Maryland, College Park; and master’s of science in real estate development and finance from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Additionally, he has completed the Property Management I and II courses and the Finance for Non-Finance Professionals course delivered by the International Council of Shopping Centers, and completed Arthur Anderson’s Argus Training.

Mike is currently serving a two-year appointment on the Commercial Retail Council for the Urban Land Institute. Additionally, he served as the 2005 co-chair for the concurrent sessions of the Washington Area Regional Conference for the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC); was a member of the planning committee for the 2004 Washington Area Regional Conference for ICSC; and was a panelist at the 2003 conference for a discussion titled “Redevelopment of Retail Shopping Centers: Does It Pay?”

Active in the Anne Arundel community, Mike served for two years on the board of the F.A.C.E.S. program for Anne Arundel County, and he coaches baseball for the Anne Arundel County Boys and Girls Club.