Milan Ratkovich

Milan Ratkovich has a big job ahead of him as the head of his late father’s firm, The Ratkovich Company.

Wayne Ratkovich founded the company, known for restoring and redeveloping numerous historic properties, in 1977. When Wayne stepped down as CEO in early 2021 he tapped Brian Saenger for the role. Milan took the reins in August, when Saenger left to become the CEO of Matt Construction. Milan began his career at Downtown Los Angeles-based The Ratkovich Company in 1992 as a financial analyst. He left the firm four years later to join the United States Marine Corps, serving for nearly nine years as a Naval Aviator.

Ratkovich returned to The Ratkovich Company in 2005, working in various positions. He was the chief development office and executive vice president before assuming the president and CEO title. The Ratkovich Company has completed, or has under development, over 18 million square feet of commercial space in Los Angeles County. In 2010, the firm bought 28 acres anchored by the hangar where Howard Hughes built the legendary Spruce Goose, along with other Hughes-era structures, and remade the site into a creative office and production campus that hosts Google as a tenant.

Ratkovich has managed and overseen many of the firm’s projects including The Alhambra, a 40-acre, mixed-use campus in Alhambra; 5900 Wilshire, a 460,000-square-foot highrise in Miracle Mile; and West Harbor, a waterfront retail development in the Port of Los Angeles, per his company bio.