Director of Operations – Royal Hawaiian Center
Michael Cox has more than 24 years of commercial real estate management experience. Since 2017, he has been the Director of Operations for the Royal Hawaiian Center and oversees all daily operations. He joined the Festival Management Team in 2014 as the General Manager for Salt at Kaka’ako.
Prior to joining The Festival Management Team, he spent 9 years as a Senior Property Manager for CB Richard Ellis, a global, real estate services and investment company and worked closely with various developers and landowners overseeing approximately 1.4 million square feet, valued in excess of $90 million dollars.
He began his career in Commercial real estate as an Asset Analyst for GE Capital Hawaii underwriting and restructuring the portfolio. He was then promoted to Asset Manager (Assistant Vice President) and responsible for a $60 million dollar portfolio that consisted of an array of approximately 63 assets in Hawaii and Alaska.
He obtained his Bachelor of Business from the University of Hawaii in 1992 and his Master of Business from the University of Phoenix in 2002.
Throughout his career, he has worked with JP Morgan, Kamehameha Schools, The Shidler Group, A&B Properties, The Sullivan Family of Companies, The McNaughton Group, MW Group, The Mills Group, Stanford Carr Development, REDICO, Del Mar Pacific and American Property Management Corporation.
