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Charles E. Cobb, Jr. was appointed Vice Chairman of the Board on December 13, 2006, and has been a director since September 2005. Mr. Cobb is the CEO and Senior Managing Director of Cobb Partners, Ltd., an investment firm with interests in real estate, international finance, resorts and tourism-related businesses. Mr. Cobb has overseen the development of many large-scale resort communities in the United States and abroad as the Chairman and/or CEO of several community development companies, including Arvida Corporation and Disney Development Company. In addition to WCI, Cobb previously served on the Board of Directors of several companies with significant real estate holdings including the Walt Disney Company, the Penn Central Corporation, and LNR Property Corporation. As either a board member or the CEO, Mr. Cobb has been involved with the purchase of over 20 companies. Mr. Cobb has also served as the United States Ambassador to Iceland during the administration of George H.W. Bush and as the Undersecretary of Commerce during the Reagan administration. He is member, and the past Chairman, of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, a former trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust Fund, and a former member of the Florida Governor’s Commission on Education. | 