Tony Machabee, CCIM, a Senior Director with NAI Alliance in Reno, NV, serves as the NAI Global Veterans Council Chairman. The Veterans Council is a recently established practice group of NAI Global (launched in late 2023) and is already comprised of some 30 or so men and women commercial real estate professionals that previously served in nearly every branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. 

Machabee had a distinguished, 30-year career with the United States Air Force (USAF), culminating as a Colonel, pilot, 152nd Operations Group Commander of the Nevada Air National Guard and the USAF Senior Director for FEMA Region 9. He also served as an advisor to Congress and National Guard Bureau that helped broaden the authority of the National Guard State Partnership Program and elevating the position of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to a statutory member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Machabee also played a critical role in the institution of the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) program for the Nevada Air National Guard.

Machabee’s work with the USAF National Security Emergency Preparedness directorate, its close coordination with the Federal Emergency Response Agency (FEMA), connected him to the commercial real estate industry in the arena of industrial and logistics requirements associated with disaster response. Along with his long-time friendship with a successful broker with NAI Alliance, Machabee turned to commercial real estate for his post-military service career. 

In this podcast, Machabee relays some of the transferable skills from the military to CRE and also the formation of the Veterans Council.