Eli Bremer

Eli Bremer is an Olympian, graduate of the US Air Force Academy, former military officer, international TV talent, businessman, and former US Senate candidate.

 

Eli grew up in Colorado and was a standout athlete in swimming and running. He was accepted to the US Air Force Academy where he would letter in both swimming and fencing while also making the Superintendents List (simultaneous honors in academics, military, and athletics) for half of his time at the school.

 

Upon commissioning into the Air Force, Eli was stationed at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs where he worked as a contracting officer managing multi million dollar contracts. At the same time, Eli was accepted as a Resident Athlete at the US Olympic Training Center to train for the Olympics in the Modern Pentathlon. In the lead up to the 2004 Olympics, Eli made the finals at the World Championships and won his first US National title. An injury took him out of the trial for the Olympics, but NBC hired Eli as the 2nd youngest on-air talent for the Athens Olympic Games where he worked alongside some of the biggest names in sports broadcasting. In total, Eli would eventually broadcast 4 Olympic Games for NBC.

 

After the 2004 Olympics, Eli was stationed as a Captain at Peterson Air Force Base where he was placed in charge of a $100M acquisition in support of some of the most sensitive US Air Force space assets. Simultaneously, he committed to training for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Over the next four years, he became ranked #2 in the World, won 3 Pan American titles, and qualified for the 2008 Olympics. His training was featured in the 2007 National Geographic international film “The Incredible Human Machine” alongside Steven Tyler. He was one of 10 US Olympians chosen to be featured on stage at the 2008 Washington DC Capitol 4th celebration. USA Today selected Eli as a featured Olympian blogger, and his column was routinely printed in the paper edition of that newspaper. An injury sidelined him at the Olympics where he finished a disappointing 22nd place. However, 2 months later, Eli would go on to nearly break the World Record at the World Cup Final which today stands as the best performance of a US athlete in the sport since 1979.

 

By the conclusion of his sports career, Eli qualified for 12 World Championships, 3 Junior World Championships, became a World Military Games Gold Medalist, and numerous domestic and international medals.

 

Following retirement, Eli founded Pure Performance which became the largest Olympic sponsorship program in the USA. In all, Eli supported an estimated 250 Olympians and 50 Olympic gold Medalists. He became a Senior Global Marketing Advisor and Global Spokesman for Shaklee Corporation, running their sports marketing program for nearly a decade. During this time, Eli worked in 7 countries and ran the largest marketing effort for Shaklee in China, being credited with driving hundreds of millions of dollars in sales.

 

As a result of his work with Pure Performance, Eli became one of the most well-connected Olympians in the country. As a result, in the aftermath of the Larry Nasser scandal, Eli became one of the national leaders and spokesmen for Olympians who were seeking reform. A nationally recognized expert on sport governance, he was a regular source for many of the national medial outlets coving the aftermath of Nasser. He worked closely with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Will Hobson who heavily relied on Eli’s information for multiple front-page articles in the Washington Post. He was asked by members of Congress to provide a report on the finance and governance of the US Olympic Committee. Eli is heavily credited with the successful passage of SB2330 which was the most comprehensive Olympic legislation in decades.

 

In 2021, received substantial national media attention when he launched a bid for the US Senate in Colorado in the days following the Tokyo Olympics. Over the following 8 months, Eli led fundraising, national media appearances, and was supported by over half of his party’s state legislators and county commissioners. However, quirky ballot-access rules in Colorado prevented him from being place on the ballot, and his campaign came to an early end.

 

Following the 2021 Olympics, Eli parted ways with Shaklee Corporation and pivoted the majority of his attention to real estate development and investing. Having spent over 15 years dabbling in real estate as a hobby, Eli wanted to leverage his local knowledge and community connections in a more substantial way and became a founding partner of EDENN Development Group. Starting with a $550k seed investment from the partners, EDENN has now grown to own and/or manage nearly $100M of real estate assets in the Southern Colorado market. 

 

Eli’s family is one of the most well-known in the Colorado Springs community. His father, also a founding partner of EDENN, served on the El Paso County Commission for 8 years where he was influential in modernizing land-use regulations. His wife Cami was also elected to the El Paso County Commission where she served an unprecedented two terms as Chair managing the roughly $600M budget and 2800 employees. She currently still serves on the County Commission but is also the CEO of the Pikes Peak United Way.

 

In addition to his real estate ventures, Eli serves as the co-chair of the United States bid for the 2027 World Military Games (WMG). The WMG are the second largest Games event in the world only behind the Olympics themselves in size and athletic quality. Eli serves alongside the other co-chair Ike Belk whose family founded both the Belk department stores and Red Diamond Coffee and Tea. Together, Eli and Ike have received a letter of commitment for the WMG with only paperwork remaining before the formal award will be given this spring. This event will be held in June of 2027 in Charlotte with an estimated budget of $125-150M and 8,000 participants. The President of the United States is expected to officially open the World Military Games in front of a crowd of over 100,000 people at the raceway in Charlotte.