CJ Follini

CJ Follini is an American businessman, and the founder and CEO of Noyack.

From 1988 until 2020, he led a co-investmen syndicate made up of 9 UNHW families that focused on alternative investments as its Chief Investment Officer. He speaks regularly regarding commercial real estate, EdTech, venture capital, consumer packaged goods (CPG), and special situations. In 2020 he sponsored Noyack Logistics Income REIT.[1]

Career
  • Redeveloped the North Street Community to develop former St. Agnes Hospital Campus in White Plains, New York purchased at a foreclosure auction for $22,000,000. Recently announced the largest active adult housing development in North America.[2]
    The 730,000-square-foot (68,000 m2), $250MM planned campus also includes assisted living and medical office buildings.[2]
  • Built and sold a $400MM Noyack Medical healthcare real estate portfolio returning a 23% IRR;[3]
  • Founded the Guns for Hire Production Centers.[4] Follini conceived, designed and built GFH's 700,000+ sq ft of digital media centers in New York, Miami,[5] Vancouver, Toronto, Austin and Los Angeles winning 1998 Crain's Magazine Small Business Award;[6][7]
  • Redeveloped One Hanson Place;[8]
  • Named GlobeSt.com Real Estate Forum Industrial Influencer of 2021.[9]

Content production career

Follini's first film production - Sling Blade - won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

In 2011, Follini created and directed Art/Trek NYC[10] and it was broadcast on cable by NYC Media and Ovation Network. Art/Trek is a docu-series that explores NYC's five boroughs in a quest to showcase new and emerging artists. Traveling in the show's signature mobile art gallery – a converted recreational vehicle, nicknamed the ArtV – host CJ Follini joins a different borough-specific co-host in each episode to meet a rising artist who's on the verge of breaking into New York City's competitive art scene. Each artist puts together an impromptu art show in the ArtV and invites residents from their neighborhood to view the work and share their opinions about the art on camera. One of the five artists will be selected to have their own gallery show, which will be featured in a future episode.[10]

In 2008, Follini was the Executive Producer for the documentary Burning the Future: Coal in America story of mountaintop removal mining and its disastrous effects on the environment.[11]

In 2000, Follini produced the short film Bullet in the Brain.[12]

Recognition
  • Follini was the Co-Chairman of The board of directors of the HERE Arts Center in SoHo which honored him with the HEREmanitarian Award in June 2014.[13]
  • Winner of The International Documentary Association's 2008 Pare Lorentz award for Best Documentary [14]
  • His production Sling Blade - won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay[15]
  • Winner of 1998 Crains Small Business Award for Gun For Hire Digital Media Centers[6]
  • Winner of 2001 Universal Studios/Hypnotic Film Award for Bullet in the Brain[16]

References
  1. Follini, CJ. https://www.wealthmanagement.com/industrial/how-one-investment-fund-manager-plans-capitalize-future-real-estate. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "$250M Senior Project Gets Key Approval". GlobeSt.com. July 10, 2007. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  3. "Noyack Capital". Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  4. "Take 2: Film Firm Expands in Village". Crains New York. January 4, 1999.
  5. n.a. (October 20, 1999). "Gun For Hire production center settles in Miami Beach". South Florida Business Journal.
  6. Croghan, Lore (January 4, 1999). "Take 2: Film Firm Expands in Village; Gun for Hire Leases More Space as Demand Grows Faster Than Expected". Crainsnewyork.com. Crain's New York Business. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  7. "Apps - Access My Library - Gale". Access My Library. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  8. "Noyack Medical Partners Snags Office Condo". GlobeSt.com. May 19, 2008. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  9. "Industry Influencers". GlobeSt Real Estate Forum. September 2021.
  10. "NYC Media - NYC Life". Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  11. Ronnie Scheib (February 28, 2008). "Burning the Future: Coal in America". Variety. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  12. https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/34420/Bullet%20in%20the%20Brain.html?dataSet=1. Retrieved November 12, 2008. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. "CJ Follini accepting the HEREmanitarian Award". Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  14. "IDA's 2008 IDA Documentary Awards Competition Nominees Announced | International Documentary Association". Documentary.org. October 28, 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
  15. "1997 Academy Award Winners". Retrieved October 5, 2021.
  16. Carey, Patricia (October 12, 1998). "Triumphant in Technicolor". CRAINS New York. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
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