Greenlaw Fritz Grupe Jr., is chairman and founder of The Grupe Company of Stockton, California. Since 1966, it has created twenty-three master-planned communities in ten states, 14,000 apartments, and developed in excess of seven million square feet of office, commercial, and storage space. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Grupe is a past president of the Urban Land Institute, past chairman of the Northern California and Golden Gate Chapters of the Young Presidents' Organization, and he has been inducted into the distinguished California Homebuilding Foundation's Hall of Fame. He is a large California agriculturalist, growing wine grapes, apples, cherries, olives, and walnuts and raising cattle. For twenty years, he was an international competitor in the equestrian sport of Combined Driving. Taking up the sport at the age of sixty, he became the first person to claim the United States Equestrian Federation's National Championship title for both Single and Pairs Driving. Fritz and Phyllis, his wife of fifty-nine years, have four children, twenty grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.