Robert Lo

Robert Lo has been Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Real Estate banking at East West Bancorp, Inc., and East West Bank since 2012. With over 25 years of experience in Banking, he has successfully negotiated and personally closed hundreds of hotel transactions that amount to several billion in both ground up, repositioning, reflagging, exterior to interior conversions, and FF&E upgrade loans across the country from 1,000 room convention hotels to boutiques. Over the years, Robert has been a featured speaker on various hotel panels, and speaking conferences. Hotels currently under construction include Virgin, Kimpton, Residence Inn by Marriott, Hampton, Homewood, and all other franchises/boutiques.

As an Executive Vice President at East West Bank, he oversees a loan portfolio in excess of 3,400 properties and $6.5BB and manages offices in San Francisco, Pleasanton, Southern California, Boston, New York, and Atlanta and manage a deposit portfolio of $2BB. His team’s goal is to consistently deepen and expand profitable, sustainable, and expandable relationships with experienced Commercial Real Estate Owners, Operators, and Developers. He is a 25+ year banking veteran and a graduate of USC with his Graduate Banking Degree earned from the University of Washington.