The Francis J. Nardozza Scholars Program

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The Francis J. Nardozza Scholars Program in the College of Business was established by Mr. Nardozza through a generous gift to encourage scholarly research on a wide range of real estate and urban economic issues. Of special interest is research focused on understanding Florida’s property-related issues such as the effect of public policy decisions on the real estate community, businesses, individuals and the environment (built and natural). Earnings from the Nardozza Endowed Fund provide continuing financial support to Nardozza Fellows and their research. Each spring, Nardozza Fellows are named and their research agenda supported during the following year.
The Nardozza Scholars Program is unique to the College of Business. Funding is used to support graduate student and faculty work, and to assist the College of Business in attracting the best and brightest to FSU.

ABOUT MR. NARDOZZA

Francis “Frank” J. Nardozza is Chairman and CEO of REH Capital Partners, LLC, a national investment and advisory services firm to the real estate and hospitality industries. Mr. Nardozza has over 30 years of diversified experience in real estate and hospitality investment, finance, and consulting. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, real estate and hotel investment and development, and strategic advisory services, and has advised on over $15 billion in real estate and hospitality transactions throughout his professional career.

Prior to launching REH, Mr. Nardozza was a partner and served as the National and Global Real Estate and Hospitality Consulting Practice Leader for KPMG, LLP and KPMG Consulting, Inc. (now known as Bearing Point), where his tenure with the firms spanned over 25 years.

Mr. Nardozza is the founding Chairperson of the US Lodging Industry Investment Council, and served for three terms as Chairman of the Market, Finance, and Investment Analysis Committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association. Additionally, he serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the Real Estate Program at Florida State University, the Executive Advisory Committee of the NYU Hotel Investment Conference, and on the Executive Planning Board of the Americas Lodging Investment Summit. Mr. Nardozza also serves on the Board of Directors of the H.O.P.E. Outreach Center of Broward County. Mr. Nardozza is a past honored member of Who’s Who Worldwide and was selected and profiled by Lodging Magazine in 2000 as one of the top 75 leaders of the US lodging industry for the new millennium. He is a frequent speaker at major real estate and lodging industry conferences. He has authored many articles on real estate and lodging topics and is frequently quoted in a wide variety of business and industry trade publications including Business Week and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Nardozza is a CPA and a graduate of FSU, B.S. Accounting, 1977. Additionally, he has completed the executive program on international business at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in May 1993.