As Chief Development Officer, Michael leads Davis’s Development team which manages all aspects of ground-up development and redevelopment projects from initial conception through entitlement, design, construction, marketing and lease up. He serves as a member of the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees.
Michael began his career and spent more than three decades at Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP), where he ascended to the role of Senior Vice President of Development and was responsible for new development throughout the Boston regional office territory as well as select developments across the country.
During his tenure at Boston Properties, Michael and his team delivered over 15 million square feet of office, laboratory, residential, retail, hotel and related uses. Notable projects include The Hub on Causeway, a 1.5 million square foot mixed-use project on the site of the former Boston Garden arena at North Station in Boston; Salesforce Tower, a 1.4 million SF first class office tower in San Francisco; Kendall Center, a 5 million SF mixed use project in Cambridge, MA; and Atlantic Wharf, a 860,000 SF mixed use project in Boston.
Michael is former Chairman and current board member of A Better City and is Vice Chairman and Trustee of Malden Catholic High School, his high school alma mater. He has presented at numerous conferences and seminars for industry groups including NAIOP, ULI, ICSC, Massachusetts Building Congress and Build Boston.
Michael received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.