Noble Black has been consistently ranked as a top broker for over 10 years, and is currently ranked the #1 team at Douglas Elliman and 35th in the nation by the Wall Street Journal.

He made Manhattan's largest sale in 2018: a $73 million penthouse at 520 Park Avenue; and sold Manhattan's then most expensive co-op in 2012 - a $54 million penthouse at 785 Fifth Avenue. His clients include leaders in business, entertainment and heads of state.

After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, Noble spent several years at a top law firm and then transitioned into real estate.  Today he is a trusted expert in the business, quoted regularly in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and has made numerous guest appearances on CBS, NBC, CNBC, ABC and Fox Business Network.

Raj Rajpal has been with Wells Fargo for over 25 years. He has closed over 18,000 real estate transactions and has been ranked in the top 1% of mortgage originators in the country, 20 years in a row.

Raj regularly teaches homeownership and credit management classes to local minority groups, including school children, at local nonprofit organizations, churches and schools.

For over 15 years he has had a call-in real estate radio program.

Raj serves as the Secretary General of Finance for FIABCI International; he has chaired multiple international real-estate delegations and is a regular speaker and panelist at real estate and mortgage conferences in the US and abroad.

Michael Valdes oversees the international servicing platform for all Realogy brands including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Better Homes & Garden, Corcoran, Climb and Sotheby’s International Realty in 113 countries.  He has been with Realogy in a variety of roles for the past 14 years.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Valdes was Director of Private Banking at Deutsche Bank for just under a decade where he oversaw a book of business of just under $1 billion.

Mr. Valdes is a current member of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors as well as the Realogy Diversity Board. He is the Executive Chair of the Latino ERG and a former Board Member of Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach.

E.B. Solomont has covered residential real estate in New York City since 2014. Before that, she spent four years at the St. Louis Business Journal, where she wrote about retail, restaurants and agriculture. Leading up to her stint in St. Louis, E.B. was a New York-based correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. After graduating from Tufts University and the Columbia School of Journalism, she cut her teeth as a crime reporter at the New York Sun.

Mitch currently serves as one of the firm’s Business Development Leaders.  He was a founder of PwC’s Real Estate Advisory practice, and has over 30 years of experience serving real estate investors, foreign and domestic.

Mitch is a widely-recognized commentator on real estate, housing, business trends, capital markets, the retail industry and the economy. He is a frequent public speaker, and a regular guest and panel member on the Fox Business Network, and Bloomberg TV and Radio. He is the co-publisher of Emerging Trends in Real Estate, a global annual market forecast.

He serves as a trustee of the PwC Charitable Foundation, where he leads its grant-making efforts in youth education and financial literacy.

Luciane Serifovic is a luxury real estate powerhouse, thought leader and CEO & founder of Luxian International Realty which launched in March, 2019.

Sixteen years ago, Luciane walked into a real estate office in Manhattan and convinced the manager to give “a young woman from Brazil who spoke little English and knew little about New York City,” a chance. Since then she has managed the sales of thousands of transactions, multi-millions of dollars of high-end New York real estate, secured properties and investments for clients in nearly all regions of the world, coached hundreds of agents, built one of the most successful real estate offices in the nation and appeared in many speaking and media engagements.

In addition to being a champion fitness model, Luciane authored the book “Handle It: Get it Together and Finally Have it All.” The book is an inspirational immigrant story. All proceeds from the book are donated to the family of Sofia Rabello to support her battle with a brain tumor.

Eric Van Hoorde has more than 20 years of experience in the Real Estate and Construction field. Since 2012 he has been involved in the development and improvement of the Real Estate sector in Panama.

Eric has twice been elected President of ACOBIR (Panamanian Association of Realtors and Developers) 2016-2017 and 2017-2018.  He was awarded the  International Realtor of the Year 2018 by the National Association of REALTORS (NAR).  Eric is an active member of FIABCI (International Real Estate Federation) and current President of its Americas Committee.

Alireza Memar, Broker Manager & Sales Director, DMG Property Management, LLC

Alireza ‘Ali’ Memar has had a 40 year career in real estate. He has experience as a real estate developer since 1977. He joined RE/MAX Realty Exchange in 2003 based out of Edgewater, NJ with a focus on global real estate.

Ali is also a licensed Broker in Dubai

.He was directly involved in the establishment of the Global Business Council for the Eastern Bergen County Board of Realtors® and is currently a CIPS Advisory Board member for the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). He  is an NAR CIPS instructor and a licensed CE instructor in New Jersey and New York.

Mr. Naim is the Co-Founder and Regional Operating Principal of Keller Williams Israel which currently operates 16 offices with more than 250 agents.

Mr. Naim is also the Founder and CEO of the NMH Group, an Israeli company which specializes in conducting real estate investments and transactions abroad, with a diversified portfolio of investments in the US, Panama and Poland.

Mr. Naim received his LL. B degree (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University in Israel, and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago.

Scott Durkin joined Douglas Elliman Real Estate in January, 2016 after a 26 year career with The Corcoran Group in New York.

He began his career as a sales agent in 1991 and became a protégé of Barbara Corcoran, working directly alongside her for many years. He was directly involved in the sale of the company to NRT/Realogy and the acquisition of brokerages in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and New York. During his tenure at Corcoran he held several corporate positions including Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director of the Chelsea Flatiron office, which ranked in the top 10 nationwide of all Realogy companies during the 11 years of his leadership.

Scott is an amateur dressage rider and has three horses that keep him busy between Stone Ridge, New York and Wellington, Florida.

Michael Jalbert, Executive Vice President, Global Field Operations, HSF Affiliates

Michael Jalbert is executive vice president for Global Field Operations overseeing the franchise sales team at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and Real Living Real Estate. He also directs the organization’s Network Services, Conference and Meeting Services and Preferred Alliances operations.

Jalbert brings extensive consulting, operations and global franchise sales experience to his position. He was senior managing director at Banister International, LLC., where he provided personalized consulting and coaching expertise for professionals and organizations. He also served as president at New Directions, Inc., an executive career advisory services firm; and was managing director at Chestnut Hill Partners LLC., an executive search firm.

Jalbert also was vice chairman and partner at ERA Europe, Inc. in Versailles, France, responsible for franchise sales.

Mr. Pinsky leads RXR’s efforts to invest in “emerging opportunities” in the New York region.  He focuses on areas with significant growth potential, particularly in the Outer Boroughs and suburban downtowns.

Prior to RXR, Pinsky was Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which developed a $20 billion plan to protect the City from climate change impacts.  Pinsky also served at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he was President from 2008 to 2013.

He is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Paul Massey and Robert A. Knakal founded Massey Knakal Realty Services. The company became the New York metropolitan area’s dominant commercial investment sales brokerage firm and was consistently ranked New York’s #1 investment sales firm in volume for 14 consecutive years.

At the end of 2014, Cushman & Wakefield acquired Massey Knakal and Mr. Massey became President, New York Investment Sales.

In 2017, Paul Massey ran as a Mayoral Candidate for New York City.

In July 2018, Mr. Massey and his partners launched a new commercial brokerage firm, B6 Real Estate Advisors, short for “Building By Building, Block By Block”.

Paul graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, in 1983.

Mr. Massey is a member of The Lower East Side Tenement Museum. He is an amateur boxer and an avid skier.  He and his wife, Gretchen, have three children and reside in Larchmont, NY.