All- Time Influential - Allan E. Keen Founder, Chair and CEO, The Keewin Real Property Company Allan Keen has developed new home communities for over four decades, but none with more relevance to Winter Parkers than Windsong, a 150-acre enclave on hallowed ground that was previously part of the peacock-populated Genius Drive Nature Preserve. And none more downright charming than his meticulous restoration of a single 109-year-old downtown Winter Park bungalow that everyone expected would be torn down. The Kummer-Kilbourne House was for several generations the only single-family home with a direct view of Central Park and the shopping district on Park Avenue. In 2011, the grandchildren of lumberyard owner Gotthilf Oscar Kummer, who originally built the home, finally found a buyer they trusted in Keen. The major-league dealmaker, who was responsible for quietly assembling the 1,000 acres on which Universal Studios Florida now sits, renewed the 2,500-square-foot bungalow and relocated his company to the first floor. The well-connected Keen is a graduate of Rollins College with an undergraduate degree in economics and an MBA from the Crummer Graduate School of Business. He was elected to the college’s board of trustees in 1989 (he’s now the longest-serving board member) and served as chair twice: from 2006 to 2008 and 2015 to 2019. He has also helmed the boards of Enzian Theater, Valencia College, the Winter Park Health Foundation and The Catholic Foundation of Central Florida. (He was knighted by Pope Francis into the Order of St. Gregory the Great in 2018.) In 2020, Keen mined his legendary Rolodex to raise funds for a passion project: a three-ton bronze sculpture of Fred Rogers that now charms visitors to the campus of Rollins. Keen, who is now also an author with a book called Relationships and Reputation published earlier this year, was named Citizen of the Year by the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce in 2022. #winterparkmagazine #winterpark #mostinfluential