John D. Baker

CHAIRMAN & CEO, FRP HOLDINGS, JACKSONVILLE

FRP Holdings develops industrial warehouses and apartment complexes throughout the Southeast. Baker has served as chairman of the YMCA of Florida’s First Coast and has founded and led two charter schools, Tiger Academy and the KIPP School. He is board chairman of the Jacksonville Electric Authority and previously served on the board of directors of Wells Fargo, the Jacksonville Port Authority, Progress Energy, Vulcan Materials, Texas Industries, Hughes Supply and Edward Waters College.

EDUCATION: University of Florida (BS, JD), Princeton University (BA),

READING: A Land Remembered, by Patrick D. Smith

INSPIRING FLORIDIAN: Bob Graham was a leader. A man of the people, yet an intellectual. A guy who got things done.