Greg Sembler

CHAIRMAN & CEO, SEMBLER CO., ST. PETERSBURG

Sembler joined his family’s real estate and development firm in 1983. He gained valuable business experience as a young boy by observing his father, the late Mel Sembler, a prominent Florida shopping center developer. He became chairman of Sembler Company in 2012 and CEO in 2019. Today, the company provides development, acquisition, property and asset management, leasing and other related services throughout Florida and the Southeast. The firm has developed more than 350 projects totaling 30 million square feet. Sembler is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He is active in supporting Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg, a private middle school designed to provide children of low-income families a quality education, and has served as chairman of the Come Build It campaign for Congregation B’nai Israel.