Michael Hammond has been in commercial real estate since 1978 and is President, Founder and Managing Shareholder of Cushman & Wakefield | PICOR, Southern Arizona’s leading independent commercial real estate brokerage and management firm. He has been a national trainer for the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors for 20 years, teaching sales and marketing skills to incoming real estate professionals early in their careers.

In 2002, with his background in industrial real estate and interest in regional economic development, he began focusing on the border region and, more specifically, the State of Sonora, Mexico. PICOR subsequently incorporated in Mexico and is successfully expanding their services into Southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico.

Local:

American Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter – Past chair; Arizona Aerospace

Foundation – Past board member; Business Development Finance Corporation – Current Chair; Community Finance Corporation – Current Chair; Commerce Bank of Arizona – Founding and current Board Member; DM-50 – Member; Industrial Development Authority of Tucson – Past Vice-President; Southern Arizona Leadership Council – Past Chair & current Board member; Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities (TREO) – Member, Board of Directors; Tucson Chamber of Commerce – Member; Urban Land Institute – Member of the So. Ar. Steering Committee

Regional:

Arizona Town Hall – Past Vice-President, Current member; Arizona Association for Economic Development (AAED) – Past President, Current member; Commerce and Economic Development Commission, State of Arizona – Past commissioner; Pima County Real Estate Research Council – Past chair; Urban Land Institute – State of Arizona Steering Committee

National:

American Society of Real Estate Counselors (CRE); Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) – Member, International Advisory Committee;

Urban Land Institute – Full member

Education:

University of Washington, Bachelor of Science, Forestry Engineering