John Wieland, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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John Wieland is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods. He is responsible for the company’s strategic vision as well as the architectural integrity of its neighborhoods and homes. In his first year in the home building industry he built 20 homes. Now over three decades and more than 25,000 satisfied homeowners later, he has firmly established John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods as the Southeast’s leading builder of semi-custom homes, with more than 1,000 full-time employees and thousands of subcontractors. Besides Atlanta, the company builds in Charleston, South Carolina; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; and Nashville, Tennessee.
John Wieland and his company have received more than 575 awards for excellence. John has been named National Builder of the Year by Professional Builder Magazine, and the company has received the National Housing Quality Award presented by the National Association of Home Builders Research Center. He has served the home building industry at the local, state and national level. In 2002 he was presented the Hearthstone Builder Lifetime Public Service Award. In 2006, he was named the Council for Quality Growth’s Four Pillar Honoree, an award celebrating John’s significant contributions to the growth, economic development and quality of life in the Atlanta region.
John has always been involved in a number of volunteer activities. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is the immediate past Chair of the Advisory Council for the Emory University Center for Ethics. He has served on the Board of Directors of the High Museum of Art since 1988 and was its Chair for three years. He recently chaired the High Museum of Art’s Building Committee for an expanded campus, designed by the noted Italian Architect, Renzo Piano. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a division of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He currently serves on the Board of the Piedmont Hospital Foundation, the Fund for Theological Education and the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. He is a former member of the International Board of Habitat for Humanity.
In addition, he has been inducted into the Home Builders Association of Georgia's Hall of Fame and has received the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association’s Lewis Cenker Award for lifetime achievement. He is a past president of both associations. John is a Senior Life Director of the National Association of Home Builders. John Wieland graduated from Amherst College and the Harvard Business School. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Amherst College. He and his wife Sue live in Atlanta and have two grown children and two grandchildren.
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