Rank #844
Robert Faith
Net worth $5.0B
Real estate management · United States
- Born
- Oct 03, 1963
- Age
- 62
- Source
- Real estate management
- Residence
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Science, University of Oklahoma
Net worth over time
Biography
- Bob Faith is the founder, chairman and CEO of global real estate firm Greystar, active in property and investment management and development services.
- Based in Charleston, South Carolina, the firm manages and operates $320 billion in real estate across five continents.
- Greystar also has an investment management platform with more than $78 billion of assets under management.
- After studying petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma and an MBA at Harvard, Faith got a job at real estate developer Trammell Crow Co.
- He became a partner in 1988 before leaving in 1991 to start investment firm Starwood Capital Partners with his Harvard classmate Barry Sternlicht.
- Faith then ventured out on his own in 1993, when he founded Greystar in Houston, Texas.
- Faith served as the South Carolina Secretary of Commerce from 2002 to 2006.