Rank #630
Peter Gilgan
Net worth $6.5B
Homebuilding · Canada
- Born
- Jan 01, 1951
- Age
- 75
- Source
- Homebuilding
- Residence
- Toronto, Ontario
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Marital status
- Single
- Children
- 8
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Peter Gilgan has built more than 135,000 houses since founding Mattamy Homes in 1978.
- Gilgan, who grew up as one of seven children in a middle-class family, worked as an accountant before going into building.
- Inspired by the New Urbanism movement, he set out to construct suburban dwellings that broke from the bland and impersonal developments.
- Mattamy (named after the two oldest of his eight children, Matt and Amy) began designing and building planned communities from the ground up in 1986.
- Gilgan remains CEO of the $4.1 billion (revenues) business.