Chris Ropko

Mr. Ropko is the Chief Financial Officer of McNeill Hotel Company. Prior to joining McNeill in 2018, Mr. Ropko served as Managing Director at RobertDouglas, where he focused on structuring and raising debt and equity capital for lodging and specialty leisure properties, portfolios and companies throughout the Americas in excess of $2.5 billion. Immediately prior to RobertDouglas, Mr. Ropko was a Portfolio Manager and Commercial Real Estate Specialist at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). While at PIMCO, Mr. Ropko sourced and executed investment opportunities involving CMBS, performing, sub- and non-performing loan portfolios, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and direct equity investments secured by all major property types, including hospitality assets. Prior to joining PIMCO, Mr. Ropko held roles at Goldman Sachs in the Real Estate Principal Investment Area focused on acquisitions and asset management almost exclusively in the hospitality sector on behalf of the Whitehall series of private equity funds. Most notably, Mr. Ropko helped build out Whitehall’s limited service hospitality acquisitions, asset, and property management platforms, including the privatization of Equity Inns. Mr. Ropko is a recurring Guest Lecturer at USC’s Marshall School of Business on the topic of hospitality real estate finance. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.