Craig Laher
CEO - Wellness, Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Role
- Chief Executive Officer at Wellness Districts
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Craig Laher
Craig Laher, CEO, Wellness Districts LLC is a results-driven senior executive with thirty-three (33) years experience as an accomplished, senior-level real estate development professional with significant experience in public-private-partnerships (P3), wellness, healthcare, life sciences, and mixed-use projects being responsible for raising capital (equity and debt), business development, sourcing, acquisition, ground-up development, and lease-up of assets valued at approximately to being CEO, Wellness Districts LLC, Craig was SVP, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences division responsible for leading business development, sourcing, financing (raising equity and debt capital), leasing, and ground-up development of mixed-used suburban master-planned communities and wellness districts, P3 discovery districts (life sciences / BSL2 labs / clean energy technology parks) and prior to that role he was SVP of a national development firm where he led high-rise development of healthcare, life sciences, and mixed-use projects (30+ stories and as many as 6 uses in a given high-rise project), including multi-family, office, retail, medical office buildings, bio-medical, life sciences, student housing, and hospitals (both short-term acute care & post-acute care).Craig was recently selected to serve on the Life Sciences Committee of the Greater Houston Partnership and is active in the Economic Development Partnership of The Woodlands (Woodlands EDP). He also has hosted monthly the Cup-of-Joey technology networking group in The Woodlands (50-60 attendees each month representing various technology spaces). Craig is also selected to speak annually at both the Bisnow Healthcare and Bisnow Life Sciences conferences in Houston. He has also spoke before the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) regarding various topics including wellness & life sciences initiatives.
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Oct 2023 — Present · The Woodlands, TX, US
Education
Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business at Clemson University
MBA, International Business. Minor: German
1993 — 1994
Colorado College
BA, Economics. Minor: Spanish
1987 — 1991
Skills
- Construction Management
- Joint Ventures
- Due Diligence
- Commercial Real Estate
- Capital Raises
- Business Planning
- New Business Development
- Financial Analysis
- Business Development
- Corporate Real Estate
- Renewable Energy
- Feasibility Studies
- Management
- Budgets
- Project Management
- Finance
- Mergers
- Contract Negotiation
- Start-Ups
- Negotiation
- Technical Presentations
- Serving the Fortune 1000
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Business Case Preparation
- Entrepreneurship
- Construction
- Corporate Training
- Public Speaking
- Financial Feasibility
- Property Management
- Leadership
- Strategy
- Real Estate Development
- Mergers
- Financial Modeling
- Capital
- Legal Writing
- Business Case
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