Real Estate Forum: Forum 100
Noble Investment Group
Development | Rank: # 17 (Score: 84 )
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Company:   Noble Investment Group    
Address: 3424 Peachtree Road, 1100 Monarch Tower  
City: Atlanta  
State: GA  
Zip:   30326  
Phone: 4042629660  
Fax: 4042629244  
Email: bonnie.herring@nobleinvestment.com  
Website: www.nobleinvestment.com  
Key Executive    
1. Name: Mitesh Shah  
    Title: Senior Managing Principal and CEO  
2. Name: Rodney Williams    
    Title: Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer  
3. Name: Mark Rafuse    
    Title: Managing Principal and Chief Development Officer  
4. Name: David Weymer  
    Title: Managing Principal and Capital Markets, General Counsel and Asset Management  
*Number of Offices: 2 16
*Number of Employees: 3680 3
*Gross Revenues Fiscal Year 2006: 280.0 million 18
*Projected Revenues Fiscal Year 2007: 350.0 million 9
Selected Areas of Specialization: Over the past 14 years, Noble has built a best in class team of leaders who have special expertise in real estate investments, complex construction/development, revenue strategies, capital markets, operations and other key disciplines.  
Company Overview: Noble is a real estate private equity fund manager and an integrated operating and development organization that specializes in value-added investments within the North American lodging and hospitality sector. Through its private equity funds, Noble is a value-added, active investor in luxury and upscale hotels and resorts. By strategically utilizing the organizations in-house property management and project development core competencies, Noble has achieved premium risk-adjusted investment returns since 1993. Noble’s current discretionary private equity fund represents $310 million of equity commitments and expects to invest over $1 billion in assets during the next three years. Noble's development division leads the planning, programming, construction management and realization of complex lodging development, re-development and conversion strategies and has actively developed or re-developed approximately $2 billion of urban, resort and mixed-use hospitality projects throughout North America. Noble's management division is an award-winning operator of independent destination resorts and branded upscale hotels affiliated with Marriott, Hyatt, Starwood, Hilton, and IHG. Currently, Noble operates more than 8,000 hotel and resort guest rooms, convention and conference centers with approximately 1,000,000 sq. ft. of meeting space, as well as championship golf, day and resort spa’s, upscale restaurants, and branded retail coffee stores.  
*Total Portfolio Size: 49 20
Number of buildings: 47  
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Number of Units/Rooms: 8250  
*Total Value of Portfolio: 1.0 billion 18
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    Raw Score:   84