Rani is a relentless big picture thinker, adept on the world stage delivering creative and bespoke award-winning deals in the Sovereign, Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, TMT, F&B/FMCG and Consumer sectors. With broad transaction experience in North America, 10 MENA, 5 European and 4 Asian countries. Rani is comfortable in building shareholder value in established and emerging markets.

With over three decades of experience in financial services and investment banking, Rani leads Noble’s advisory and capital raising businesses. Prior to this, he was Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking with NBK Capital for 15 years. Rani firstly originated and led the NBK Capital Investment Banking platform. His leadership enabled acquisition of 80% overall market share, with deal volume exceeding $120B and expanding operations across the MENA region.

He has advised boards and C-suite teams on changing global market landscapes and pushed for acquisitions to drive inorganic growth and generate operating and financial synergies to enhance corporate performance. In concert with his hands-on leadership career, Rani’s engagements at Board/Committee level have focused upon complex financial matters and governance.

As an emerging market expert, he is a featured commentator for CNBC Arabia, Reuters and Bloomberg News networks. Moreover, Rani was a featured speaker on numerous occasions for the Trade and Export Finance, Euromoney, Petroleum Economist, Gulf Bond and Sukuk Association and CME LIBOR Transition conferences across the globe.

Rani has an MBA with high distinction from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science from New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a Graduate of Executive Programs from IMD in Switzerland, fluent in English and Arabic, and conversational in Spanish and French.

Nathan Cali has more than 14 years of combined healthcare, biotechnology and pharmaceutical experience. Mr. Cali was previously a sell-side analyst for 9 years with expertise and publications cover many areas of biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals (branded and generics), medical devices, and regenerative medicine. He has been quoted in most business journals including Reuters, BioMed Reports and the Washington Business Journal. Mr Cali is the co-founder of Variant Pharmaceuticals an early stage biotechnology company advancing orphan drugs for the treatment of renal diseases. He is currently a Committee Member at the Moffitt Cancer Center for Commercialization and a member of the Development Board of Palm Beach County. Mr. Cali started his career in healthcare at Andrx Corporation, a biotechnology and specialty pharmaceuticals company known for its expertise in the development of controlled-release drugs. Mr. Cali was a corporate manager dealing in finance, state taxation, corporate governance, patents, drug distribution and business development for the biotechnology firm. Andrx was purchased by Watson Pharmaceuticals in 2006 for $2.0 billion in cash. Prior to joining NOBLE, Mr. Cali gained investment experience as a portfolio account analyst/manager at Franklin Templeton Investments. Mr. Cali holds a B.S. in Finance from The Florida State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Nova Southeastern University. Nathan also currently holds series 7, 79, 86, and 87 FINRA designations.

Christopher Ensley is a Managing Director of technology, media & telecom (TMT) investment banking at NOBLE Capital Markets where he focuses on capital raising, mergers and acquisition advisory and valuation opinions for clients. During his tenure on Wall Street, Mr. Ensley has participated in over $16B in transactions. Prior to NOBLE, Mr. Ensley was a TMT investment banker at Coady Diemar Partners, a boutique investment bank in NYC. Prior to Coady Diemar, Mr. Ensley was a Managing Director in the equity research department at Bear Stearns. While at Bear Stearns, Mr. Ensley was a member of the #1 rated broadcast equity research team for six straight years (2002-2007). Mr. Ensley was a Vice President of equity research covering the broadcast sector at Lazard. He began his Wall Street career as an equity research analyst at Salomon Brothers where he covered the tower industry in addition to the broadcasting industry. He received an MBA from Vanderbilt University and a BA from the College of William & Mary.

Prior to joining Noble, Michel has been a partner at JSB-partners since 2006. Michel has been active in the life science industries since the early 1980s, specializing in finance, strategic planning, sales and marketing, and international management.

Before JSB-Partners, Michel ran his own consulting practice in Vienna, Austria. Earlier in his career, he developed the health care unit at Droege & Comp., a strategy consulting firm in Düsseldorf, Germany. Prior to that experience, he served as managing director of Octapharma GmbH and as Vice President of International Marketing for the Octapharma Group, where he was responsible for business in Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and South Africa.

Preceding Octapharma, Michel was head of Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals’ Austrian operations in Vienna; as its Head of Planning Information and Control in Johannesburg, South Africa; and as its Head of Marketing of the Danish group company in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Gouy joined Ciba-Geigy in 1983 as an assistant to the International Operations and Marketing committee in its Basel, Switzerland offices.

Mr. Gouy earned a graduate business degree from EAP/ESCP European School of Management and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Prior to joining Noble, Dr. Stoiber was a co-founder and partner of JSB-Partners. He has more than 30 years of experience as a physician, pharmaceutical industry executive, and investment banker. Dr. Stoiber has advised numerous companies, closing transactions with a cumulative value of more than $2.5 billion.

Before co-founding JSB-Partners, he was a partner at MPM Capital, where he built the firm’s transatlantic business, initiating and managing a number of cross-border transactions with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Prior to MPM he led F. Hoffmann-LaRoche’s Austrian and French pharmaceutical divisions.

Following Dr. Stoiber’s medical and clinical training, his career at Roche began in the organization’s medical marketing division and continued in its marketing and sales operations.

He contributed to the creation of a number of companies, including Therascope, AC Immune, and PNB. Dr. Stoiber previously served on the board of directors of Therascope AG (later Alantos, now Amgen), GPC Biotech AG, and East Pharma Ltd.

Dr. Stoiber earned an MD, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Munich and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Francisco Penafiel joined NOBLE Capital Markets in 2002 after earning his Master of Science in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and International Economics from Florida Atlantic University. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Escuela Superior Politecnica in Ecuador, where he double-majored in Statistics and Computing Science. Prior to joining the investment banking department at Noble in 2011, Francisco was part of NOBLE's research department, working as a supervisory analyst and equity research analyst covering the enterprise/infrastructure software and business services industries. Other responsibilities included portfolio managing, computer modeling analysis and statistical review. He is also a member of the Company's Investment Policy Committee. Francisco holds various FINRA licenses and is a candidate in the CFA program.