Owner, President, & CFO
Brian has over sixteen years of strong financial, accounting and managerial experience. Brian has extensive knowledge of upper-end financial reporting including Work In Progress (WIP), financial ratios, bonding company reporting, and year-end financials. He implements both long term financial and strategic plans to ensure the company has the cash reserves and financial options to weather the inevitable cycles in our industry and economy.
After four years in the banking industry at Bank of America, Brian spent the next eleven years working for Outhouse Designs; a national apparel manufacturing and marketing company. During his tenure at Outhouse, Brian worked his way up from financial assistant, to controller, and then spent his last five years serving as President and CFO. During this time, he successfully turned the company around from multiple year losses to reporting a yearly profit for the first time in four years.
Brian brings a unique perspective to a medium sized GC: long term financial and strategic planning. The long term viability of our company is in good hands with Brian behind the numbers.
Mike Nieft, LEED AP
Owner & Vice-President
Mike has gained experience across several markets and job sizes during his 10 years in construction. Mike spent his first years doing small renovations and tenant finish-out projects, and then spent a number of years building large ground-up projects in excess of $100 million. He has worked on hospitals, universities, laboratories, tenant finish-outs, retail, financial institutions, and government projects.
Mike has worked for some of the largest general contractors including DPR, Bovis Lend Lease, and Vaughn Construction. Working for these companies has allowed Mike to bring the tight, controlled processes of large corporations to IE2. The processes ensure that the paperwork will be consistent from project to project, and team to team.
A few of Mike's past projects:
- $42M Foundation Surgical Hospital & MOB - Houston, TX$42$45M University of Texas Biomedical Engineering - Austin, TX
$42M Foundation Surgical Hospital - Houston, TX
$45M University of Texas Biomedical Engineering Building (LEED Silver)
$33M IKEA - Washington DC
$19M Braker Pointe - Austin, TX
$7M Riata Corporate Park Building 7 - Austin, TX
$2.6M Austin Area OBGYN - Austin, TX
$4M Seton Main Patient Tower Renovation - Austin, TX
$83M Harris County Civil Justice Center - Houston, TX
Tom Mravle, LEED AP
Project Manager
Tom has been in commercial construction for 6 years and has focused on tenant finish-outs and remodels. Tom’s ability to juggle multiple projects while keeping all projects on schedule, and providing great customer service have led to clients repeatedly asking for Tom on future projects.
Tom’s confident yet humble personality can make the most challenging client feel comfortable and cared for. Tom’s creative thinking can solve the most challenging problems, leaving customers to spend their time on other issues.
A few of Tom's past projects:
$40M St. David's South Austin Hospital - Austin, TX
$2.6M Austin Area OBGYN
$1.8M Stonegate Surgery Center
$2M Verizon Data Center
$18M Brazos Place Condo
$5M Capitol Tower Renovations
