Senior Vice President Operations
With over 25 years of experience, Ryan Jeffers is a homebuilding and concrete shell construction professional in Fort Myers, Florida. As a Florida Licensed General Contractor, Ryan is the Managing Member of Veridian Construction Management, LLC. Founded in 2010, Veridian Construction Management has provided estimating/purchasing, construction management, business development, product design & development, real estate, and home building development consulting services for single-family, multifamily, and high-rise construction projects to companies in the US and Canada.
Currently, Ryan is Director of Business Development, SE USA for Solid Wall Systems, a cast-in-place concrete shell construction builder focused on production residential construction at scale. As a General Contractor and former co-owner of Greenblock® Insulated Concrete Forms, the original ICF & Founder of Greenblock Homes®, the only vertically integrated ICF homebuilding system in the United States, he is an advocate for energy-efficient, resilient and sustainable concrete home construction. Ryan has held architectural, supply chain, purchasing and project management roles within large regional and national homebuilders such as Centex Homes and WCI Communities, Inc. Ryan has worked to develop such notable communities as Tiburón Golf Club, Norman Estates, (a partnership with Pro Golfer, Greg Norman), Escada Estates, Serafina, Castillio & Tuscany Reserve, Naples, FL with a focus on production single, multifamily & luxury housing. As a production homebuilding and concrete shell construction industry professional, Ryan works closely with professional trade organizations such as the National Association of Home Builders, NAHB Building Systems Councils, Housing Innovation Alliance, National Ready Mix Concrete Association & Insulated Concrete Forms Manufacturers Association. In 2019, Ryan was a guest speaker & panelist at the International Builders Show, Las Vegas for the Building Systems Councils, Concrete Home Building Coalition’s roundtable on Insulated Concrete Homes representing both the ICFMA & NRMCA. Ryan continues to be an advocate for cast-in-place and insulated concrete homes in production housing and an avid promoter of the NRMCA Build With Strength campaign initiative. Ryan draws upon his knowledge of home building, concrete construction, design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing as he enjoys designing and inventing new methods of building concrete structures. To date, Ryan has authored & co-authored two United States patent filings and has pioneered the development of “Large Format” Insulated Concrete Forms which are as much as 20 times larger than traditional forms making ICF construction more labor efficient, modular & scalable.