All-Time Influential - Ed Timberlake Retired Banking Executive Ed Timberlake retired in 2021 after a 50-year career as a banker but has continued to burnish his legacy as a selfless community builder. His lengthy civic resumé includes chairing the boards of the Heart of Florida United Way (where he remains an emeritus member), the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, the Community Foundation of Central Florida and, as of 2022, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. He has earned such honors as the Tree of Life Award from the Jewish National Fund (2006), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (2009) and the Champion of Service Award from Volunteer Florida (2015). The roster of kudos grew earlier this year when the Orlando Economic Partnership (OEP) presented Timberlake the James B. Greene Award—its top honor—which annually recognizes individuals whose “selfless service and community impact” reflect that of Greene, a civic dynamo who passed away in 1988. (Among the past award recipients: the late hotelier and philanthropist Harris Rosen.) These days, Timberlake is most focused on the arts center, which is gearing up to develop the remainder of its 9-acre downtown campus. In 2005, when he was president of Bank of America Central Florida, Timberlake orchestrated a $1 million donation to the arts center—which wouldn’t break ground until 2009—and joined the board as a founding member. He ascended to the chairmanship when the legendary Jim Pugh, the founding chair and a fellow Winter Parker, stepped aside after 19 years at the helm. Timberlake, a native of Yakima, Washington, and a graduate of Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, says that banking and civic involvement are symbiotic: “It’s an obligation of leaders to give back,” he says. “But it has also been good for me personally because I’ve learned so much.” #winterparkmagazine #mostinfluential #winterparkfl #drphillipscenter