CJ Follini

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CJ Follini is an American businessman and expert on private markets. He is the Founder of several , and the founder of several alternative investment funds including: commercial real estate, fine art and private credit. He is alo the Founder of the nonprofit financial education platform - Noyack Wealth Club.

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The son of Italian immigrants, he started on his career path when his father, CEO of a large building company suffered a serious stroke and CJ was forced to take over the $250 million annual revenue firm.

Then from 1988 until 2020, he led a investment syndicate 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

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]

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  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. 1 2 "$250M Senior Project Gets Key Approval". GlobeSt.com. July 10, 2007. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2016.
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  9. ↑ "Industry Influencers". GlobeSt Real Estate Forum. September 2021.
  10. 1 2 "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)[ permanent dead link ]
  13. ↑ "CJ Follini accepting the HEREmanitarian Award" . Retrieved October 5, 2021.[ unreliable source? ]
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