Greg Rice, is a Principal and Founder of Solid Rock Group and is a real estate professional with 40 years of diversified experience in real estate development, leasing, brokerage sales, acquisitions, property management, and asset management. For the last 25 years, Mr. Rice has focused almost exclusively on hotel and resort real estate.
Since founding Solid Rock Advisors in 1991, Mr. Rice has the led the firm’s involvement in transactions totaling $8 billion in volume and involving 190 different properties. These properties have included some of the world’s finest hotels, such as the Four Seasons New York, Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, and the Santa Barbara Four Seasons Biltmore. Mr. Rice has also been involved in significant financial restructuring and loan placements, and has supervised several hundred million dollars of renovations for TY Warner Resorts and Hotels, whom he has represented in all their transactions since 1990. He also acts as an investment advisor to a number of other firms and individual investors.
Mr. Rice’s depth of experience in leasing, sales, acquisitions, financing, syndication management, and construction make him highly qualified within the real estate industry. He maintains contact with an extensive number of buyers and network brokers to ensure his clients the best possible exposure to the marketplace. Greg has a thorough knowledge of leases, contracts, and the required due diligence process in a closing.
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Frank Orioli, Vice President, brings over 30 years of senior level investment and development experience to Solid Rock Group. His areas of responsibility include managing the company’s commercial office and specialty retail investment platforms; identifying acquisitions, underwriting, closings, property management, asset management, and valuation strategies. Most recently Mr. Orioli served as Senior Vice President of Investments at Prism Capital Partners, where his work included the redevelopment of a 120-acre pharmaceutical facility on 120 acres in New Jersey, which at buildout, will include 4 million square feet of office, residential, retail and hotel space anchored by a medical school and research facility. He has also held senior positions with Rockwood Capital and Principal Global Investors and his experience includes over $5 billion in acquisitions work. His specialties include expertise in identifying opportunities that significantly exceed return performance benchmarks. He has proven skills executing large, complex transactions with development through core risk profiles. Mr. Orioli’s education includes Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development and Investment from New York University.