To read about our senior executives' histories, please click on their names below for their biographies:

Alan B. Levan, Chairman and CEO

Alan B. Levan has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BFC and its predecessors since 1978. Mr. Levan is also Chairman, President and CEO of BankAtlantic Bancorp, Chairman and CEO of Woodbridge Holdings, LLC, and Chairman of Bluegreen Corporation. He possesses extensive experience in the management of portfolio companies and serves on the board of directors of several BFC and Woodbridge-related companies.

Mr. Levan has spearheaded BankAtlantic’s commitment to support Habitat for Humanity in that organizations effort to eradicate poverty housing in Florida. He is the recipient of the Spirit of Humanity Award, as well as the Nova Southeastern University Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Award. He established the BankAtlantic Foundation in 1994. Its charitable contributions support a wide array of activities in the arts, education, social welfare and community and economic development.

A resident of Broward County, Florida, Mr. Levan is a Trustee of Nova Southeastern University and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Broward Community College Foundation. Mr. Levan is a graduate of Tulane University.

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John E. Abdo, Vice Chairman

John E. Abdo has been the Vice Chairman of BFC Financial Corporation since 1993 and Director since 1988. He has been the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Executive Committee of BankAtlantic Bancorp, Inc. since 1987. He is also Vice Chairman of Woodbridge Holdings, LLC, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bluegreen Corporation, and a member of the Board of Directors of Benihana, Inc.

A successful real estate investor and developer in his own right, Mr. Abdo has made a career of developing residential communities as well as commercial structures throughout South Florida for more than 25 years. His company has built over 5,000 residences, which for a time made it one of the largest residential builders in Florida’s Broward County. Mr. Abdo has a wide range of contacts and experience in diverse industries.

Mr. Abdo is the President of the Broward Performing Arts Foundation, a $60 million theater for the Performing Arts that serves all of South Florida and a member of the Board of Directors of PACA (Performing Arts Authority). He is a graduate of Florida State University.
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John Grelle, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Grelle is the Chief Financial Officer for BFC Financial Corporation. In May 2008, Mr. Grelle was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for both Woodbridge Holdings, LLC and BFC Financial Corporation, prior to which he was a partner of Tatum, LLC. From 2003 through October 2007, Mr. Grelle was the founder and principal of a business formation and strategic development consulting firm. From 1996 through 2003, Mr. Grelle served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ULLICO Inc., a financial services conglomerate with assets in excess of $4 billion and, from 1993 through 1995, he served as Managing Director of DCG Consulting.

Mr. Grelle has also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Old American Insurance Company, Controller of the Financial Services Division of American Can Company (later known as Primerica) and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of National Benefit Life, a subsidiary of Primerica, President of Bell National Life, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of American Health and Life, Controller of Sun Life America and Director of Strategic Planning and Budgeting for ITT Hamilton Life. Mr. Grelle is a graduate of St. Louis University where he majored in Accounting.

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Seth M. Wise, Executive Vice President and Director

Seth M. Wise serves as Executive Vice President and Director of BFC Financial Corporation and President of Woodbridge Holdings, LLC. He began his career in commercial lending at BankAtlantic. Mr. Wise spent 5 years in retail real estate development as an executive with the Washington, D.C. based Targoff and Company and then joined the Abdo Companies as a development partner in 1996. In 2001, he joined Woodbridge Holdings as President of its commercial development subsidiary. He then became Executive Vice President of Woodbridge Holdings in 2003 and ultimately named its President in 2005.

Mr. Wise earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Florida. He serves as an Executive Committee member of the Real Estate Advisory Board of the Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Florida, the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and an Executive Committee member of the South-East Florida/Caribbean Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

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