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Michael Divaris is President of the Divaris Group of companies which includes Divaris Real Estate, Inc. (DRE), Divaris Property Management Corp., Ingenuity Development, Creative Development Partners, KLNB Asset Services, S.T. Burke Retail Partners, and The McGarey Group. DRE is a full-service brokerage firm with a portfolio of approximately 40 million square feet in management and leasing assignments nationwide. The Group currently employs over 200 people and has offices in 15 cities in the United States. Michael heads up the Office Leasing and Investment Sales Divisions.

Michael Divaris has served on the Board of Old Dominion Real Estate School, the Central Business District of Virginia Beach Board of Directors, Hampton Roads Public Television and Radio Board, and is a past President of the Virginia Stage Company. He contributes insights on the Hampton Roads Real Estate Economy to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, which has eight annual publications.

After graduating from the University of Natal, South Africa in 1972 with a degree in Business Administration and Business Finance, Michael Divaris joined the Anglo American Corporation where he was the Personal Assistant to the Chairman of the Anglo American Property Company. He was responsible for the asset management of the group’s portfolio in the Cape Province.

Michael and Gerald Divaris co-founded Divaris Real Estate in Cape Town, South Africa in 1974 and together grew the business into one of the largest South African commercial real estate firms with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. In 1982, Divaris Real Estate opened its first U.S. office in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where Michael Divaris permanently relocated with his family in 1987.