Mr. Rachal is President of Urban Key Capital Partners which is a mission-driven, specialty finance
advisory services platform with expertise in providing a range of financial service to highly-impactful real
estate development projects in distressed communities and development authorities. Mr. Rachal is
also a Principal of Red Rock Global and President of Red Rock Global Capital Partners where he has
specific responsibility for directing all financial advisory services and private placement activity. Prior to
forming Urban Key Capital Partners and re-joining Red Rock Global, Mr. Rachal was Managing
Director of Redevelopment at Invest Atlanta. He had specific responsibility for managing, marketing
and overseeing the City of Atlanta’s tax allocation district program and served as director for
commercial, retail and mixed-use projects applying for tax increment finance funding. Mr. Rachal also
created and had the responsibility of directing Invest Atlanta’s controlling entity interest as President of
Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc., a New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program Certified Community
Development Entity (CDE) and multi-round allocatee (over $200 million). Due to this specialized track
record, Mr. Rachal recently launched Urban Key CDE to compete for NMTC allocation from the
Department of Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
Mr. Rachal joined Invest Atlanta from Red Rock Global, which is an Atlanta-based real estate advisory
services and commercial brokerage company he co-founded in 2001. Prior to that, Mr. Rachal served
with the Private Equity Group of Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York where he had the responsibility of
advising financial sponsors in the private placement of over $7 billion of limited partnership interests to
institutional investors. He also served within the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Merrill Lynch & Co. in
New York where he provided advisory assistance to Fortune 500 companies and financial sponsors in
over $5 billion of both acquisitions and divestitures.
Mr. Rachal is a graduate of Dartmouth College with degrees in Economics and Government, as well as
the University of Chicago Law School and Booth School of Business, where he received his Juris
Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees, respectively. Mr. Rachal currently serves as an
advisory board member of ULI Atlanta, past Chair of the Public-Private Partnership Council of the
Urban Land Institute and was a participant in ULI Atlanta’s Inaugural Center for Leadership. Mr. Rachal
proudly serves on the boards of directors of Southface Institute, CaringWorks, Sadie G. Mays Health
and Rehabilitation Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church. He has also chaired the boards of directors of
the Development Authority of DeKalb County (Decide DeKalb), the DeKalb Private Hospital Authority
and the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authority. In addition, Mr. Rachal is a graduate of the
2012 Class of Leadership Atlanta, the 2013 Class of Leadership Georgia and the 2013 Atlanta
Regional Commission Leadership Institute.