ABOUT COMMERCIAL AGENT Michael Fields

With 30 years of commercial real estate specialization in the West Florida market, Michael W. Fields is well experienced in the analysis, development and implementation of short and long-range strategic plans for portfolio real estate.

Mike started his commercial real estate focus in 1983 with Lee Arnold & Associates, Inc. in Clearwater, FL where he specialized in suburban office property leasing and sales until leaving the firm in 1991 to form his own firm. With longtime friend and Florida real estate icon, Al Austin he formed The Austin Group, Inc. and two years later, merged that company with Binswanger. With the merger, Mike became managing partner for the Southeast region of one of the world's largest commercial real estate brokerage companies - where he served from 1993 to 2003.

With the sale of his company, Mike joined longtime friends Allen Crumbley and Dewey Mitchell as managing director of Prudential Commercial Real Estate, FL from 2003 until the launch of the ORION initiative in November of 2008.

With partners Allen Crumbley & Dewey Mitchell, Mike launched ORION Commercial Services, LLC in July of 2007. As a Preferred Provider for Prudential Real Estate, ORION delivers industry leading commercial real estate systems, processes, form, functions, templates, training and mentoring via a leading edge technology platform to the aver 65,000 Prudential Network Affiliate sales professionals throughout the US and Canada.

Michael W. Fields joined Prudential Commercial Real Estate, FL in March of 2003 as Managing Director and brought to the team a wealth of commercial real estate experience as well as an abundance of local, state and national influence in both the business and political worlds.

He joined Prudential after retiring in 2001 as President of one of the leading commercial real estate development, sales and management firms in the state of Florida. Additionally, he was Managing Director of the West Florida Region for the largest industrial real estate services firm in the world.