Background
Born to a Jewish family, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf, are both Holocaust survivors from Nazi occupied Poland.
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Mark Wilf
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Princeton University. New York University School of Law.
Career
He has one brother, Zygi Wilf. The Wilf family immigrated to the United States from Europe in the early 1950s and settled in Hillside, New Jersey. Eventually, the brothers began building single-family homes and founded Garden Homes.
A successful real estate developer, his two main family-run businesses, Garden Homes and Garden Commercial Properties, have constructed some 25,000 homes in 39 states across the country since their initial ventures.
The two entities and their affiliates own and manage 25,000,000 square feet (2,300,000 m2) in retail and business property. Wilf received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and then a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law.
As president, Wilf manages the day-to-day operations of the team and directs all its business departments. The presiding judge noted that Wilf had used organized crime like tactics to commit fraud against his business partners.
Wilf is a major donor to the Jewish community including Yad Vashem and the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel.
Wilf served as National Campaign Chairman for the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and is currently vice chair of their board of trustees. He was also appointed by the JFNA to lead a new initiative that addresses the needs of impoverished Holocaust survivors living in the United States. He serves as a Trustee of Yeshiva University.
