Prior to co-founding CDS with Tera Shatsky in 1995, Michael participated in many high profile real estate endeavors. His vast experience beginning from the early 1970’s in diversified entrepreneurial, real estate ventures allowed him to assist CDS into becoming a leader in the real estate – design industry.

Michael’s experience: He established and principally operated an apartment to condominium management group over a continuous ten year period (both independently as the Weybridge Group, as Senior VP for the Daon Corp, and as founding principal of Five Star Management). During those years he was involved with transacting acquisitions, managing apartment operations, overseeing designs for renovation and ultimately successfully selling over 14,000 units, within 400 plus communities throughout the US.

Having been the Client…Michael understood what clients are looking for. This experience has been a key factor in separating CDS from our competition.

We are truly grateful for the wisdom and knowledge that Michael Shatsky brought to our company and continue to strive for the high expectations that he set forth.

Gratefully….the CDS design team