Cooper Manning Job: What does Cooper Manning do for a living?

Cooper Archibald Manning is an American entrepreneur and television personality who hosts the Fox Sports show The Manning Hour and serves as the principal and senior managing director of investor relations for AJ Capital Partners.

Manning joined the Fox NFL Kickoff broadcast crew on September 13, 2015. Manning joined AJ Capital Partners’ executive team in 2016 as principal and senior managing director of investor relations.

AJ Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private real estate firm focusing on developing a portfolio of hotels and resorts, most notably the company’s in-house brand, Graduate Hotels, a collection of boutique design-driven hotels in university-anchored areas around the United States.

Other initiatives have included the restoration of existing hotels and the building of new properties, including several in Chicago, including the Chicago Athletic Association, Soho House Chicago, Thompson Chicago, and Hotel Lincoln.

Manning was a partner at Scotia Howard Weil, a Houston-based oil investment firm with offices in New Orleans and Houston.

The company hosts an annual energy conference that draws top-level investors, public energy businesses, private energy companies, private equity firms, and other commercial lenders from across the world.