ATLANTA—Judd Bobilin founded Chance Partners in 2009—right smack dab in the middle of the commercial real estate crash. His focus: developing mixed-use and student housing communities across the Southeast.

Before that, he served as executive vice president and Chief Development Officer of Novare Group, a leading developer of mixed-use hi-rise communities in urban locations having developed over $1.5 billion of real estate with 6,000 residences and 250,000 square feet of retail in aggregate. Prior to Novare, Bobilin was an executive with Lincoln Property Company, heading up the firm's multifamily development efforts in the Southeast.

Bobilin has served on professional panels including for National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and various real estate publications conferences. In 2006, he was selected to serve on Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin's Permitting Improvement Taskforce. He also worked with the City of Atlanta on the Sustainable Green Building initiative.