Reon Roski

Chief Executive Officer, Majestic Realty

As of 2022, Roski helms one of the largest privately-owned developers of commercial real estate, ushering in the third generation of Roskis running Majestic Realty. 

The USC board member is the daughter of billionaire Ed Roski Jr, currently chairman of the company (see related entry) —  and granddaughter of the company’s late founder, Edward Roski Sr., making her heir to one of the biggest real estate empires in the country. 

She was a real estate attorney before joining the company in 2007 as senior counsel, and she’s been a board member since 1997. Majestic Realty owns and operates 92 million square feet of commercial real estate that includes industrial, office and retail space. Its holdings also include stakes in the Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Lakers and the Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena), which the firm developed alongside Anschutz Entertainment Group in 1999. Roski’s reign has shaken things up at the firm’s Texas project, the Fort Worth Stockyards. 

Majestic has been a partner in the redevelopment of the popular tourist destination, with former managing partner Craig Cavileer taking the lead for over a decade. But, after Cavileer took the side of Hickman Companies in a 2023 dispute, Majestic ousted him and auctioned off his $78 million ownership stakes in the company, which put the $1 billion expansion of the Stockyards in limbo and led to an ongoing legal battle. Kayla Wilkie Kinne, Majestic’s director of design and development for the project, also left the company as a result of the dispute. 

– Alena Botros