Michael D Skunda

Bio

Michael D. Skunda is the Managing Director, Acquisitions and is responsible for sourcing, structuring and implementing Covington’s investment strategies throughout the country. Mr. Skunda has over 20 years of diversified commercial real estate experience that encompasses building and land acquisitions, sale-leaseback transactions, asset dispositions, adaptive re-use development, design-build construction, leasing, and corporate real estate consulting. Mr. Skunda has conducted hundreds of real estate transactions representing more than $500 million in value. With a deep expertise in industrial real estate, he adheres to Covington’s strict discipline of value-added opportunistic investments that involve either vacant or partially leased industrial properties, corporate surplus, or other real estate opportunities where complex processes must be managed to restructure or reposition the investment to maximize value. Mr. Skunda started in the industry as an industrial real estate broker in 1987 with Taggart-Marriott-Reardon, a Columbus, Ohio based real estate development company, later becoming the Director of Development and Construction for prominent Midwest design-build firm—EXXCEL Project Management. Mr. Skunda still maintains a real estate brokers license in the State of Ohio, is a member of the National Board of Realtors, and the Columbus Board of Realtors.