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September 2003 Roger B. Gatewood
Roger B. Gatewood is the president of the Florida- and Carolina-based operations of Standard Pacific – an operation he helped found. In 1980 he formed Westfield Development Corp. Eight years later, he founded Westfield Homes of Illinois, a land development and home building company in Gurnee, Ill. In 1989 Gatewood expanded the company into Florida with Westfield Homes of Florida, a home building company based in Tampa Bay, Fla. In 1997 all corporations were combined under the umbrella of Westfield Homes USA, and Gatewood established a North Carolina Division to work in the Charlotte, N.C., and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., markets. To provide continuing growth opportunities, the stock of Westfield Homes USA was sold to Standard Pacific in 2002. Gatewood remains as president of the Westfield Homes subsidiary, which is now part of one of the largest homebuilders in the nation. The Illinois operations were sold to another national builder. Gatewood, who grew up in Church Falls, Va., earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue in 1968 and spent his early career working with the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company in Chicago. Gatewood's $7 million gift to the School of Mechanical Engineering's $128 million campaign continues his history of giving to the Purdue. Funds raised in the campaign will go to new facilities for teaching and research, as well as student and faculty support. As a Purdue student, Gatewood was a member of Phi Tau Sigma, the national mechanical engineering honor society. He also became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and served as president of the Indiana Beta Chapter. In addition to his Purdue degree, Gatewood also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. He has three daughters and currently resides in St. Petersburg, Fla. Writer: Matt Holsapple, (765) 494-2073, mholsapple@purdue.edu Related Web site: |
