Robert Toll
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- home building
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Residence
- Education
- Cornell University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)University of Pennsylvania (LLB)
- Children
- 5
Assets
- Toll Brothers Inc.7,203,000 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.100,000 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.100,000 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.75,000 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.72,289 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.41,663 shares @ --TOL-US
- Toll Brothers Inc.43,866 shares @ --TOL-US
Biography
Robert Toll is chairman emeritus of Toll Brothers, a publicly-traded luxury homebuilder.
He cofounded the firm with his younger brother Bruce in 1967. The company's first project was a new community of 171 homes in Chester County, PA.
Robert served as CEO of Toll Brothers until 2010 and executive chairman until 2018; he is the company's largest individual shareholder.
Though the company is based in Pennsylvania, the brothers live in Miami with their children (Robert has five kids, Bruce has four) and grandchildren.
About
At 18, Toll was a counselor at Camp Powhatan in Maine. The organization is now known as Seeds of Peace, and brings Arabs and Israelis together for summer sessions.
Robert's father was a multimillionaire investor who lost it all in the 1929 stock market crash. To support his family through the Depression, he delivered laundry.