Phillip McNeill, Jr. serves as Executive Chairman of McNeill Investment Group, the parent company of McNeill Hotel Company that he founded in 2014. He was formerly Executive Vice President of Equity Inns, a publicly traded (NYSE) Real Estate Investment Trust, extensively involved in growing the company from 8 hotels valued at $40 Million to a portfolio of 138 hotels which was sold to a real estate fund of Goldman Sachs for $2.2 Billion. Phillip has previously held senior executive positions in the hospitality division of Goldman Sachs as well as Pillar Hotel and Resorts. Phillip has over 30 years of experience in real estate development, management and construction across various asset classes. Phillip recently served on the Marriott Courtyard Design and Construction Committee formed to reimage the Courtyard guestroom.

Christopher Ropko is the Chief Executive Officer of McNeill Investment Group where he is responsible for the oversight and overall growth strategy of the Company including its owned real estate portfolio, sponsored investment vehicles and operating Company subsidiaries, principal of which is McNeill Hotel Company. In his previous role as Chief Financial Officer, Chris successfully positioned the Company’s balance sheet to thrive during the Pandemic period and led all capital structuring efforts, growing the Company’s overall assets under management (AUM) from $270 Million to over $475 Million in under four years.

Prior to joining McNeill in 2018, Chris served as Managing Director at RobertDouglas, where he focused on structuring and raising debt and equity capital in excess of $2.5 Billion for lodging and specialty leisure properties, portfolios and companies throughout the Americas. Immediately prior to RobertDouglas, Chris was a Portfolio Manager and Commercial Real Estate Specialist at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO). While at PIMCO, Chris sourced and executed investment opportunities across the entirety of PIMCO’s fund families 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, Chris 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. Chris is actively involved in the local Memphis community volunteering his time as a youth football and track & field coach. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration

Tom has over 30 years of leadership and experience in portfolio and asset management, debt and equity investments, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and investor relations. Most recently he served as Head of Asset Management for the office and industrial group at L & B Realty Advisors. Prior to that, Tom worked for several private equity firms including Senior Vice President of Hotel Asset Management at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for 211 select service hotels with a value in excess of $2.3 Billion. He was hired by The Blackstone Group to serve as the Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Extended Stay Hotels to focus on the recapitalization and subsequent disposition of the company and also performed acquisitions for La Quinta Inns & Suites. Additional roles include executive positions in asset management and finance with Equity Office Properties, JER Partners and Heitman/JMB Institutional Realty Corporation. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Denver and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

With over 30 years of experience and expertise, Sussan has been counsel to the McNeill family of companies since their beginning. Even before officially becoming a member of the Executive team, Sussan has been working with the McNeill Executive Leadership Team on capital raises, acquisitions, financing, structuring, development, and real estate activities. As an equity partner of Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs, LLP, Sussan was a leader in the firm’s commercial real estate & lending service team. She worked on multiple transactions and further developed her experience in the field of mergers & acquisitions, banking, and finance. Sussan has also served as corporate in-house counsel managing significant growth phases and as general counsel for a bank’s mortgage company.

Lindsey joined McNeill Investment Group after serving as Senior Vice President at RobertDouglas, where she provided capital solutions through investment sales, debt financings, joint venture equity raises, programmatic equity raises, and general advisory for a wide spectrum of hospitality assets and platforms. Prior to joining RobertDouglas, she spent two years working as an underwriter in Wells Fargo Bank’s Hospitality Finance Group, where she underwrote hotels for over $1.5 Billion in loan proceeds for refinancing, repositioning, new construction, and note acquisitions. Lindsey holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University.

Brent joined the McNeill group of entities in 2015 after serving as Vice President of Pillar Hotels & Resorts Construction. In this role, he provided direction for a team of four project managers and was responsible for the strategic capital planning and execution of capital expenditures for a portfolio of over 300 hotels encompassing 10 hotel brands. This team executed capital projects averaging $80 Million per year with scopes ranging from emergency capital items to change of ownership PIPs and cyclical renovations. Brent also worked with Pillar Hotels and Resorts in the role of Regional Director of Operations overseeing the day-to-day operations of multiple units consisting of Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt select service brands. Brent has been in the hospitality industry since 1993. While the roles over those 30 years are many, the focus of his efforts were largely related to the Sales, Marketing, and Revenue Management aspects of hotels ranging from suburban select service hotels to large, full-service destination/convention hotels.

Larry joined the company after gaining over 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, beginning with 13 years with Holiday Inns and followed by 23 years as Senior Vice President – Controller for Davidson Hotels and Resorts. At Holiday Inns, he was responsible for the accounting and reporting for all domestic owned and managed hotels for Holiday Inns and Hampton Inns. Taking that experience to Davidson in 1991, he managed all accounting and reporting aspects as the company grew from 12 hotels to 46 hotels during his tenure. He graduated from Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) with a B.B.A in Accounting and became a Certified Public Accountant during his years at Holiday Inns.

Valerie Bolton brings over 16 years of hospitality HR experience to the McNeill group of entities. Prior to joining McNeill Investment Group, Valerie was the Director of Recruiting/Human Resources manager for Bowlmor-AMF where she led a team of seven. Previously, Valerie managed the recruiting efforts of over 100 hotels for Pillar Hotels and Resorts. Valerie graduated from University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Arts degree. While attending UNT, Valerie began working at a counseling clinic and realized her talent for helping individuals pursue and achieve their goals.