ABOUT
THE FOUNDER
Eli Miller is an energetic leader who is passionate about complex commercial real estate development. He has the desire to creatively solve complex commercial real estate, construction, and facilities challenges facing clients, and leads teams of those who do so.
Eli Miller, Principal
Eli has an unwavering focus to create value for clients while fostering a collaborative environment with all the project shareholders to deliver new and renovated industrial, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, hospitality, higher education, K-12 education, and municipal facilities. Demonstrating this again and again by leading $2+ billion of in place capital projects over the course of his 20+ year career.
Eli is a lifelong learner and immersed in the commercial real estate and construction industry holding a Bachelor of Science in Construction Engineering from Purdue University and a MBA from Krannert School of Management at Purdue University with a focus on Finance and Corporate Strategy.
Equally important as the technical skills are the leadership skills and soft skills, so Eli decided to attend Indiana University for the Tobias Fellows Executive Leadership Development Program and become a “person divided” in lieu of a “house divided”.
Eli has focused on fine tuning early commercial estate skills by attending Cornell University for Real Estate Investing, Site Selection, and Entitlements.
With more than 20 years in the construction industry, Renatus Ventures is poised to bring experienced construction specialties to our clients, including:
- Business Development
- Project Scope Defining
- Site Selection
- Due Diligence
- Financing
- Entitlement Process
- Community Advocacy
- Construction Management (CMa & CMc)
- Selection of Professional Services
- Risk Management
- Budget Control
- Contract Negotiations
How We Started
Our principal and founder, Eli Miller, has over $2 billion in physical facilities of new and renovated industrial, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, hospitality, higher education, K-12 education, and municipal facilities. Eli has delivered heavily regulated facilities complying with both the FDA and USDA. Eli has been a champion of change and innovation within any organization developing and driving corporate initiatives. Some of our strengths include overseeing the auditing of the risk and implementation of process improvements by:
- Leading Issues Indicators
- Project Retrospectives
- Productivity Improvement Study Results
- Operational Process Improvements & Cost Reduction
- Financial Process Improvements & Cost Reduction
- Advanced Risk Management During the Development Phase & Preconstruction Phase
How We Can Get You Where You Want to Go
Project owners often have grand visions and big ideas for their future buildings, but may lack the time or knowledge to handle the project alone. As your real estate development advisor and construction Owner’s representative, we will handle the details to help you realize your dream. Our team is adept at building, strengthening, and leveraging internal relationships and external relationships across all levels; primarily through referent power and informational power to develop commitment to the cause or project. We are the subject matter experts that act as an unbiased shepherd through the real estate development process. Our owner and principal has an excellent history with the mentoring and coaching process at all levels of an organization. These skills allow us to have the difficult conversations and manage conflict before the issue grows out of proportion.
Industry Memberships & Connections
Eli Miller has served on:
Indiana Construction Roundtable Board of Directors, a state-wide Owner advisory organization and Legislation advisory organization providing construction industry insights from large scale construction managers, architects, engineers on matters of legislation, incentives, workforce development, procurement, safety, and quality.
Indiana Construction Roundtable Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, a state-wide Owner advisory organization committed to bringing economic stimulus to socioeconomically disadvantaged portions of the population through the construction industry. During this period of time, the committee revamped the Diversity Outreach Initiative Program and deployed state-wide.
Chair of the Skillman Corporation Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) Communications Committee from inception. The ESOP Communications Committee is a committee that acts like a conduit between the employee owners of the Company and upper management.
The primary functions of an ESOP communications committee:
- Educate current employees and new employees on the benefits of the ESOP
- Facilitate two-way communications amongst all employee-owners in different departments
- Encourage individual performance and team performance
- Connecting all employees, offices, and disciplines
- Continuing education for ESOP committee members
- Fostering an ownership culture and drive innovation within the Company
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