Investors & Partnerships

David Rothberg is CPC’s Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. In this role, he provides leadership and partnership to all of CPC’s business lines in achieving the company’s strategic goals and growing its impact. This includes a focus on managing risk, capital allocation, capital raising and ensuring that investments position the company to execute strategic priorities. Rothberg’s responsibilities also include overseeing the alignment of CPC’s finance and operations departments and all finance department functions, including investor reporting, accounting, treasury operations and corporate finance responsibilities. In addition, CPC’s credit and risk function reports to Mr. Rothberg, who is largely responsible for managing the risk across the company’s growing portfolios. As a member of CPC’s Operating Committee, Mr. Rothberg partners with senior leadership to oversee the organization’s strategic investment and capital allocation decisions. He provides expertise and strategic guidance to several board committees in areas related to capital allocation, risk, and the annual audit. In addition, Rothberg serves as a voting member on CPC’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining the company in 2012 as Senior Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis, Rothberg worked for CPC as a consultant with the Capstone Advisory Group. He played an instrumental role in assisting the company with its restructuring during credit agreement negotiations, the development of its business plan, and ultimate recapitalization. In his former role as a director at the Capstone Advisory Group, Rothberg was responsible for providing financial restructuring advisory services to the company’s clients. While there, he represented creditors and creditors’ committees, including secured lenders, banks, financial institutions, lender groups, bondholders and unsecured creditors. He also represented debtors through the bankruptcy process. During a nine-year career with The CIT Group, Rothberg served in numerous positions including Vice President, Business Development Officer and Vice President, Underwriter within the National Restructuring Group. He also served as Assistant Vice President, Portfolio Manager – Underwriter within the Business Capital/Loan Purchasing and Commercial Services groups. Rothberg earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University.

Melanie Crocco is SVP, Deputy Chief Financial Officer responsible for the Accounting, Treasury, Financial Planning, Business Analytics, and Finance Operations departments at CPC and partners in the company’s capital raising and strategic growth planning initiatives. She oversees the day-to-day operations of the corporate performance of the organization including audit, capital and balance sheet management, cash management, and short-and-long term operating performance. She works closely with CPC’s rating agencies, investors, and partners on overall company performance, strategic planning, and effective capital management. In this role, she is a key partner to business leaders across the company, providing insight into business performance and facilitating effective, strategic decision-making. Melanie is also responsible for identifying and delivering solutions that provide efficiencies to the financial operations across the organization. Melanie has previously held various other leadership roles within CPC, most recently as SVP of Financial Planning and Business Analytics. In this capacity, Melanie was responsible for overseeing company and business performance, budgeting, long-term planning, raising capital, managing credit facilities, and implementation of numerous systems and applications to facilitate CPC’s strategic growth plan. Before joining the Finance organization in 2017, Ms. Crocco was Vice President, Assistant Director of Portfolio Services and an Assistant Vice President, Portfolio Manager, management positions she held at CPC spanning 10 years. In these roles, she managed the daily operations of functions related to closings, asset management, construction administration, loan servicing and secondary market sales on behalf of the company’s investors. Ms. Crocco received her Master’s of Science degree in City and Regional Planning from the Pratt Institute, has a Bachelor of Arts in Metropolitan Studies from New York University, and has completed coursework at Brooklyn Law School.