As Chief Administrative Officer, Ross Raspopovich directs essential business operations at Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network. He leads the quality, laboratory, information technology, medical records, strategic planning, risk management, project management, legal operations, human resources and the organization’s diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives. In his role as Chief Financial Officer, Raspopovich is responsible for financial viability, reporting, budgeting, audit oversight, business insurance, treasury, tax, retirement plans and all accounting functions for Gift of Hope.
Before joining Gift of Hope in 1999, then known as the Regional Organ Bank of Illinois, Raspopovich was director of finance for York Behavioral Health Care, L.L.C., at Managed Care Resources Management Group in Burr Ridge, Ill. His more than 30 years of accounting and finance experience also includes positions at Aon Corporation in Chicago.
Raspopovich is a member of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) finance and quality committees. He is a Finance & Audit Committee member for Eversight, a Gift of Hope eye bank partner in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a board member for the Gift of Hope Community Foundation and the Illinois Transplant Fund. Previously, Raspopovich was member of the National Donate Life America Finance Committee and chaired the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) Finance Committee.
Raspopovich holds a master’s degree in business administration from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal Ill. He has earned a leadership certificate from Northwestern University, Six Sigma Black Belt certification from Villanova University College of Professional Studies, and certifications in human resource management and organizational effectiveness.
