# Raftelis

> Raftelis is a Charlotte-based management consulting firm serving local governments and utilities. It combines financial and rate studies with organizational assessment, executive recruitment, strategic planning, communications, technology consulting, and its Ellio cloud software platform.

- **Founded:** 1993
- **Headquarters:** Charlotte, United States
- **Founders:** George A. Raftelis (Founder and Chair Emeritus)
- **Products:** Financial consulting, Organizational assessment, Strategic planning and facilitation, Digital, technology, and data, Executive services
- **Notable:** Reports supporting more than 2,000 local governments and utilities cumulatively., Reports client agencies serving more than half the U.S. population and 82% of the 50 largest U.S. cities., Helped Pittsburgh Water with five completed Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission rate cases: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2025.

## Products & services

- **Financial consulting** — Rate and fee studies, cost allocation, capital planning, affordability analysis, valuations, and debt issuance support.
- **Organizational assessment** — Reviews of organizational structure, staffing, processes, and performance.
- **Strategic planning and facilitation** — Planning and facilitated decision-making for public-sector organizations.
- **Digital, technology, and data** — Technology planning, data management, cybersecurity, systems selection and integration.
- **Executive services** — Executive recruitment and leadership support for local governments and utilities.
- **Strategic communications** — Stakeholder research, public outreach, and communications for organizational and policy changes.
- **Ellio Financial** — Cloud financial planning and rate-scenario modeling; annual organization subscription with unlimited users and optional consulting support.
- **Ellio Performance** — Goal ownership, progress dashboards, and organizational performance tracking.
- **Ellio Analytics** — Water and wastewater rate and financial benchmarking with geographic and utility-size filters.
- **Asset management** — Infrastructure lifecycle planning that balances cost, risk, and service performance.

## Achievements

- Reports supporting more than 2,000 local governments and utilities cumulatively.
- Reports client agencies serving more than half the U.S. population and 82% of the 50 largest U.S. cities.
- Helped Pittsburgh Water with five completed Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission rate cases: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2025.
- Developed Dallas’s Stormwater Information Management System, first deployed in fiscal 2017.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Centerville, Ohio, passed Resolution 33-26 authorizing an agreement with Raftelis to assist its city manager search.
- **2025-10** — A Redlands public agenda packet included a Raftelis proposal describing the firm as privately held and documenting its 1993 origin and 2004 employee ownership transaction.
- **2025-03** — A Columbia County, Florida, public agenda packet included a Raftelis proposal describing its financial and management consulting services and company history.

## Links

- Website: https://www.raftelis.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/raftelis/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Raftelis
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/Raftelis-Financial-Consultants-Inc/114571308557077

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