Jeffery R. Traeger
Senior Vice President

As Hardin Construction’s Senior Vice President of Finance a company shareholder and a member of the company’s management committee, Jeff Traeger is responsible for general and project accounting, financial and tax reporting and compliance, risk management, cash management, payroll, and information technology. In this multifaceted role, Mr. Traeger brings over 30 years of construction financial management expertise, has negotiated everything from the purchase of Hardin’s new corporate office in Atlanta to the security of the company’s irreplaceable data assets.

Mr. Traeger joined Hardin in 1979 and served as project accountant on the Georgia Port Authority project in Savannah, Georgia, and the Knoxville Hilton in Knoxville, Tennessee. After stints as assistant controller, controller and vice president-controller, Mr. Traeger was promoted to senior vice president of finance in 2000.

Mr. Traeger currently serves on the board of directors of the Construction Financial Management Association, Georgia Chapter, and the executive committee (as treasurer) and board of directors of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Georgia Chapter. A 2007 graduate of Leadership Cobb, and a member of the Leadership Cobb Alumni Association. Active in his church, he has served in various leadership roles including stints as chairman of the board of trustees, building committee member and stewardship committee member. Mr.Traeger is CPA-licensed in the state of Georgia and a member of the AICPA and the Georgia Society of CPAs.

Mr. Traeger has a bachelor’s degree in business administration, majoring in accounting from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia.