Michelle Beck - Palomar College

SUMMARY
DAVID M. ZANATY
250 Park Avenue West, NW, Number 408, Atlanta, GA 30313
Phone: (404) 822-9077 Email: dzanaty2011@kellogg.northwestern.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/in/zanaty
Thoughtful and creative Commercial Real Estate Executive with fluency across product types, proven
leadership skills, and accomplishments in all phases of the investment cycle. Current focus on workouts
including tenant, lender and partnership issues. 13+ years of experience in both entrepreneurial and institutional
settings includes high-density, urban mixed-use development; investment property acquisitions and dispositions;
raw land assemblage and entitlement; project financing; valuation, consulting, leasing, asset management.
EXPERIENCE
AIG GLOBAL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT CORP. Atlanta, GA
Vice President – Development & Asset Management 2007 – present
Manager – Investments 2005 – 2007
Member of a global development team responsible for the execution of various commercial and residential
projects. Primary focus on Atlantic Station, a $3 billion mixed-use brownfield redevelopment in the Midtown
submarket of Atlanta, Georgia.
• Principal office developer and asset manager within the group; named 2007 NAIOP Office Development
Firm of the Year (Georgia Chapter); nominated for the same award in 2009.
• Delivered all projects on schedule and below budget; bottom-line responsibility for $230 million of office
development and $50 million of land development.
• Recent focus: loan modifications, lease restructurings, scenario modeling, distressed asset and partnership
interest valuations, asset dispositions.
• Directly responsible for development, asset management and leasing of 2O1 and 271 17 th Street, two Gold
LEED Certified office towers totaling 890,000 SF; master planning of an additional 4.5 million SF. The first
building, a 2008 ULI Development of Excellence Finalist; the second, winner of the 2010 AGC Build
Georgia Award and nominated for the Atlanta Business Chronicle 2007 Office Deal of the Year.
• Negotiated numerous office leases exceeding 400,000 SF in aggregate; includes three of the region’s largest
law firms and the nation’s 10th largest bank.
• Direct asset strategy, master planning and horizontal development activities for 650-acre land holding in
Orange County, Florida; lead local team and work with county officials in pursuit of entitlements.
• Responsible for all phases of the development cycle including deal and JV structuring, acquisition, zoning
and entitlement, capital structuring, design, construction, marketing, leasing and asset management.
• President of the Board of a condominium homeowner’s association affiliated with a company development.
• Led team in pursuit of and negotiations for an urban mixed-use development opportunity in Cincinnati, OH.
• Initiated internal effort to create standard operating procedures governing development process. Selected to
lead international team of counterparts in examination of operating efficiencies within the organization and
make recommendations to senior leadership.
ZANATY CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC Atlanta, GA
Principal 2001 – 2005
Owner of firm engaged in $65 million of commercial real estate investment, development, consulting and
brokerage.
• Activities included principal and third-party development, investment property sales and acquisitions, office
and residential condominium conversion, site selection and land assemblage, multifamily investment,
placement of equity and debt.
• Clients included real estate investment firms; multifamily owners and operators; commercial real estate
appraisal firms; attorneys and property owners requiring asset valuation, disposition consulting, and
advocacy in condemnation matters.