Mike has over thirty years of real estate investment and development experience and is the owner and operator of Cypress Partners. Prior to founding Cypress Partners, his experience includes working as a development manager for International Airport Centers, now Jet Cargo, a private REIT joint venture with Heitman Financial to develop distribution centers at regional airports. In addition to his experience with International Airport Centers, Mike was a lead developer on behalf of the Damone Group a private partnership headed by Michael G. Damone, former chairman and co-founder of First Industrial, currently the largest light industrial REIT in the country. This development assignment was a multi-state roll out of Senior Housing buildings.

 

Mike has participated in the development or consulting of over $1B worth of real estate projects predominantly in student housing, senior housing, multifamily projects, and mixed use projects. Mike graduated with a degree in finance from Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania. While at Villanova, Mike was a four year varsity tennis player and captain of the team his senior year.