Peter Gilgan
- Peter Gilgan has built houses for some 90,000 homeowners 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 and is making a big push to expand his U.S. operations in Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.
