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Marketing & systems leader · South Florida

I build businesses, visually and technologically.

Twelve years leading marketing across brand, digital, CRM and automation. I set the direction, lead the team and agencies, build the systems they run on, and report results leadership can act on. Real estate, financial services and health are home ground.

Eli Mendoza, portrait
Eli Mendoza
Commercial real estate Residential, property & title Private equity & development Senior living & longevity Health tech Wellness Fintech Legal Fine art Interior design Logistics Home services & trades

Index

Brand, marketing and the systems behind them. Owned end to end.

Brand identity and guidelines, websites and product UX, CRM architecture and marketing automation, email and campaign programs, reporting for leadership, and leading the teams and agencies that deliver them. Filter by what it produced, by industry, or by the seat I held.

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    At a glance

    Twelve years across the whole business, not one department of it.

    In practice since
    2014operations → real estate → creative director → CMO → senior director
    Brands built or rebuilt
    20+identity, guidelines, web, collateral
    Industries
    12from private equity to fine art
    Working languages
    EN · ESfully bilingual, written and spoken

    Brand & design

    Adobe Creative Cloud · Figma · Adobe XD · Canva brand systems · InDesign brand books

    CRM & operations

    Salesforce · HubSpot · Copper · Monday.com · ClickUp · Microsoft 365 · SharePoint · Google Workspace

    Automation & AI

    Make.com · Claude API · Claude agents for listing entry, flyers and reporting

    Web & lifecycle

    WordPress · Elementor · Webflow · WooCommerce · GA4 · Campaign Monitor · Mailchimp · Brevo · Beefree

    How it connects

    It's all connected. Data drives the marketing machine.

    Select one to see where I've led it, and what it connects to.

    Six disciplines connected to each other and to one system at the center

    Brand

    Identity that holds up in every room it enters.

    Naming, logo systems, guidelines and voice, from a law firm's brand book to a fintech's full lexicon.

    Where I led itLumen Advisers · Emerald Law · mydola · ArtMoves

    Selected work

    Six projects in depth. Every one opens into the full story, with the sites, films and brand books.

    Commercial real estate

    01

    Fausto Commercial2026Sr. Director of Marketing

    A brokerage's marketing, rebuilt as a system instead of a to-do list.

    Led marketing for about 40 agents with a coordinator, a web developer, a VA and a PR agency, and built the infrastructure underneath: an AI flyer system, offering memoranda, listing automation, live executive reporting and the email program.

    • Marketing leadership
    • CRM & automation
    • Email program
    • Reporting
    View the project
    Senior living & longevity

    02

    Masterpiece → Bright Side of Longevity2018 → nowCreative Director & UX/UI

    Decades of successful-aging research, made into a product people could actually use.

    Led the rebrand, the app redesign and the platform UX that carried the company into negotiations with AARP and SunHealth, and still oversee the platform as it adds features.

    • Rebrand
    • App redesign
    • Platform UX/UI
    • E-books & print
    View the project
    Private equity & development

    03

    Metropolitan Investment2018 – 2020Creative Director & CMO

    Every hat in a private-equity startup: the firm, its brokerages, its developments.

    Launched the firm's US identity, ran marketing for its residential and commercial brokerages, branded new developments like Tequesta, and planned and directed its US opening at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

    • Development branding
    • Residential brokerage
    • Event & film direction
    • Investor decks
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    Fintech

    04

    Lumen Advisers2023Brand identity & positioning

    A lighthouse for impact investing, announced on the Betterment platform.

    From the Lighthouse concept to the identity, guidelines, stationery and a motion brandbook, ahead of the Lumen and Sparo announcement on the Betterment platform in May 2023.

    • Concept & identity
    • Brand guidelines
    • Collateral
    • Motion
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    Fine-art logistics

    05

    ArtMoves2022 → 2026Brand, web & operations

    A fine-art handler founded in 1987, rebuilt after an acquisition.

    Rebranded the company down to the fleet and uniforms, built the website, then ran the machinery behind it: CRM migration, workspace and domain moves, and local and paid search, for four years.

    • Rebrand
    • Fleet & uniforms
    • Website
    • CRM migration
    View the project
    Diaspora fintech

    06

    mydola2025Brand & go-to-market

    Banking-grade design for communities that rarely get it.

    Naming advice, the identity, color system and card design, an investor landing page and seed deck, with Spanish and Haitian Creole adaptations.

    • Naming
    • Identity
    • Card design
    • Localization
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    Lineage

    Almost every opportunity came through a person. Here's the family tree.

    No ads, no cold outreach. Good work, then an introduction.

    2018Metropolitan Investment

    • Agewell CapitalJV with Agewell Living · brand, investor material
    • Masterpiece → Bright Side of Longevity2018 → now
    • Valerie Raphael, Esq.Kemet Law Group · brand, website, CRM
    • Kiel Green, Esq.Emerald Law · Emerald Management Group · Emerald Home Services · Don Green Electric · Lumen Advisers
    • Jan StrzeleckiPara Familia → Savvy · rebrand, MVP wireframes

    2022Valery Adrien

    • ArtMoves2022 → 2026
    • ArtBreaksponsorship program
    • ViaPaxwebsite
    • mydola2025
    • Krisna AdrienSpaces Designs · website

    2024The art world

    • Gianni Acraartist portfolio, profile, exhibition "Legacy in Continuum"
    • Galerie MarassaHaitian & Caribbean art since 1977 · website + store

    Chapters

    From property management to the C-suite. Real estate runs all the way through.

    1. 2026

      Fausto Commercial

      Senior Director of Marketing, consultant. CRE brokerage marketing, CRM and automation.

    2. 2019 – 2026

      Own ventures

      Museo Real Estate, my brokerage for investment properties, developments and agents, where I was Managing Broker. 27 Colab, the brand and operations practice through which most of the independent work on this page was delivered.

    3. 2018 – 2022

      Masterpiece

      Creative Director and UX/UI Designer.

    4. 2018 – 2020

      Metropolitan Investment

      Creative Director and CMO. The firm, its brokerages, its developments.

    5. 2017 – 2018

      TSG Group

      Operations and Systems Consultant. Stabilized and wound down 600+ investment properties across 110 portfolios, with a clean data transfer to the new owners.

    6. 2015 – 2018

      Licensed in Florida

      Realtor, then Broker Sales Associate: Keller Williams, Coldwell Banker, Real Estate Sales Force.

    7. 2014 – 2017

      Property management

      Automated lead-to-lease-to-tenant workflows at Urban Resource. Development creative for Cassa Brickell, Cassa Georgetown and Offizina.

    The strategy always tailored.
    The way of thinking continuously refined.

    How I work

    Where I fit.

    Executive seat

    Head of marketing, CMO or VP at a growth-stage company. I set direction, lead the team, build the systems it runs on and make the numbers visible to leadership.

    Co-founder

    For the right operator or founder: the partner who owns brand, go-to-market and the operating system of the company, from naming to the first hundred customers.

    Fractional leadership

    For the business that grew faster than its systems. I find the structural problem, lead the fix, and leave a team and SOPs that keep it running.

    Contact

    My best work started with an introduction. Consider this one.

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