Ex-trader brings Wall Street cred to development role

Tommy Del Zoppo has assumed leadership of a hospitality firm during a critical time, with an ambitious expansion of the Cordova Inn set to begin in earnest this autumn.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 5:00 a.m. July 29, 2022
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Tommy Del Zoppo co-founded New Hotel Collection in 2017 and is now the CEO. (File photo)
Tommy Del Zoppo co-founded New Hotel Collection in 2017 and is now the CEO. (File photo)
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Tommy Del Zoppo is one of the unlikeliest property developers you’ll run across in the Tampa Bay area. A former Wall Street trader who worked for JPMorgan Chase & Co., HSBC and Citigroup, he moved from New York to St. Petersburg about nine years ago — before it was cool — and in 2017 founded New Hotel Collection, a property investment and development firm, with travel industry veterans Alex Hodges and Ron New. 

 

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