Edward E. Burr
PRESIDENT & CEO, GREENPOINTE HOLDINGS, JACKSONVILLE
Burr rose from modest beginnings to become a master-planned community and condominium builder. He founded GreenPointe, his second development company, in 2008. It is developing and managing 20 master-planned communities in 10 Florida counties, adding 27,000 single-family and 2,200 multifamily homes along with 800,000 square feet of commercial and retail space. Burr started as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand in Miami after graduating with an accounting degree from Florida State University in 1979. He has been a tireless university advocate, spending more than a decade on FSU’s board of trustees, serving on the Seminole Boosters board and being inducted into the College of Business Alumni Hall of Fame in 2019. Burr also chaired the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. He founded the Monique Burr Foundation for Children in 1997 after his wife was killed in an automobile accident. The foundation provides programs to help children and adults prevent and respond to bullying, exploitation and human trafficking.
