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Full Name: Michael W. ("Mike") Freret
Title: Partner / Arizona Market Leader (formerly Chief Executive Officer, Orsett Properties)
Firm: KBC Advisors (current); Orsett Properties, Ltd. (former)
Firm Type: Commercial real estate brokerage & advisory (KBC); commercial real estate developer/operator (Orsett) — *not a venture-capital or startup seed investor*
Investment Stage: Commercial real estate — acquisitions, (re)development, and brokerage of income-producing property. *(The "Seed Round" tag in the source record appears to be erroneous boilerplate; no evidence of startup/VC seed investing was found.)*
Check Size: Not publicly disclosed; deal-by-deal (institutional/private commercial real estate scale)
Target Company Profile: N/A — focus is on real estate assets (office, industrial, retail, multifamily), not operating-company equity
Sector Focus: Industrial / logistics, office, retail, and multifamily commercial real estate
Geographic Focus: Arizona (Greater Phoenix metro); the Southwest U.S.
Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Background

Michael "Mike" Freret is a Phoenix-based commercial real estate executive and broker. He was born and raised in Maryland and moved to Arizona with his wife, Jill, after finishing law school. Early in his career he worked at large law firms before moving into commercial real estate, holding positions at a small development company and at Opus West, and then at Duke Realty, where he is credited with launching the company's Arizona operations.

For roughly 14 years he served as Chief Executive Officer of a Phoenix development and management company — Orsett Properties, Ltd., a firm founded in 1972 by Curt Feuer to acquire, develop, own, and manage commercial real estate across the Southwest and Northeast. Public records indicate Freret re-joined Orsett in 2008 as CEO, responsible for day-to-day oversight of the firm's office, industrial, retail, and multifamily projects (e.g., Riverpoint Business Park, The Reserve at San Tan, 2222 Pinnacle, Baseline Corporate Center). He is a licensed Arizona real estate broker (Associate/Designated Broker history; AZ license BR536715000).

In 2021 Freret left the CEO role at Orsett and joined KBC Advisors — a Seattle-headquartered industrial real estate brokerage — as a Partner and Market Leader for its Arizona practice, focusing on industrial/logistics representation. (Orsett's leadership has since transitioned, with L. Scott Feuer now listed as CEO and Designated Broker.) Outside work, Freret and his wife are raising four sons and he is noted as an apprentice welder/metalworker.

Investment Thesis & Focus

Operates in commercial real estate, not startup equity — the relevant "deals" are property acquisitions, developments, dispositions, and brokerage assignments.
Asset types: industrial/logistics (his current KBC focus), plus office, retail, and multifamily from his development background.
Strategy themes (per his Revere/CRE profile): acquisition, ground-up and pre-development, ground lease, opportunity zone, recapitalization, refinance, rehabilitation, partner buyout, and loan-purchase situations — i.e., value-add and repositioning of commercial assets.
Geography: concentrated in the Greater Phoenix / Arizona market, where he has decades of local relationships and helped stand up Duke Realty's Arizona platform.
No publicly stated venture-style thesis or stated check size was found; engagement is relationship- and asset-driven.

Notable Investments

Riverpoint Business Park (Phoenix) — Orsett's purchase and repositioning of long-vacant office buildings, described as "breathing new life" into the park.
The Reserve at San Tan (Gilbert, AZ) — multi-phase office/business park; Orsett broke ground on additional building(s) during his tenure.
2222 Pinnacle and Baseline Corporate Center — office/commercial projects in Orsett's Phoenix-area portfolio.
Arizona market entry for Duke Realty — credited with initiating the firm's Arizona operations earlier in his career.

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