DE222 Honoree: Michelle Freeman
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Title: CEO & President
Michelle Freeman
Workplace: Carl M. Freeman Companies / Carl M. Freeman Foundation / Joshua M. Freeman Foundation
Boards: Venture Philanthropy Partners, Georgetown University Entrepreneurship Advisory Group, James Beard Foundation
Q&A: Best advice for your younger self? “Release worry and fear. All things work together for good.”
Michelle (DiFebo) Freeman is the owner and CEO of the Carl M. Freeman Companies, a real estate company established in 1947 that specializes in land acquisition, land planning, development and the management of award-winning, amenity-rich residential communities, neighborhood shopping centers and commercial properties. In Delaware, the firm has built the Bayside, Tidewater Landing and Tower Hill communities in Sussex County, along with two golf courses. Freeman is also president and chair of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, which gives grants in the communities where it works, and chair of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, which honors her late husband by providing arts and arts education.
