Germantown, Tenn.-based McNeill Investment Group, formerly McNeill Hotel Investors, has named Travis Murray the new president of McNeill Hotel Co., a division of newly formed MIG. In this new position, Murray will be responsible for day-to-day supervision of McNeill Hotel Co., including brand and owner relationships, sales and marketing, revenue management, human resources, and growing the company’s third-party hotel property management portfolio.
The appointment is part of a leadership realignment accompanying the company’s completion of a strategic recapitalization with Prospect Ridge, a national private equity real estate investor, and Fulcrum Hospitality, a hospitality investment operating partner, advisor, and asset manager.
Murray joined McNeill Hotel Co. in 2018. As a regional director and VP of operations, Murray was instrumental in facilitating multiple acquisitions during a period of growth for the company and helped it achieve performance metrics throughout the pandemic and current hospitality industry recovery.
“Working closely with Mark Ricketts, his predecessor as president, Travis has thoroughly demonstrated the ‘right stuff’ with steadily increasing responsibilities at McNeill," MIG Managing Director and CEO Chris Ropko said in a statement. "In particular, he played a key role in orchestrating the property management and other operational aspects of our recent strategic recapitalization."
Murray has more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality field. Before joining McNeill, he spent 14 years with Marriott International in numerous roles including general manager, dual general manager and corporate general manager specialist. Murray has experience as a strategic business leader with responsibility for sustaining sales and marketing strategy, managing profitability, managing revenue generation and managing and conducting human resources activities.