John R. Landon is president and owner of Landon Development Company, which he established in 2006. Landon served as co-chairman and CEO of Meritage Homes Corporation from 1997 to 2006.

Landon served as CEO of Legacy Homes, a Texas-based firm which he founded in 1987.

A 1997 merger between Legacy Homes and Monterey Homes created the company Meritage Homes, the 13th largest homebuilder in the United States according to Builder magazine. Landon co-founded Meritage Homes in 1997 and, under his leadership, the company became one of the premier residential home builders in the United States, with closing revenue rising of $3 billion in 2005. During Landon's tenure, Meritage Homes built more than 40,000 homes, ranging from entry level to luxury single family detached, condos, town homes, active adult homes, and two golf courses. The company was named to the Fortune 1000 in 2005, and ranked one of Fortune's fastest growing companies in America. In addition, Meritage Homes was named to the Forbes Platinum 400 list of America's best big companies for the third consecutive year in 2005, and ranked the number one performing stock in America for five-year total return in 2004.

Landon's previous experience includes land acquisition and development operations for a large homebuilder, sales and land development for the Trammel Crow Residential Group, and public accounting with Ernst & Whinney.

Landon is part of the ownership group which purchased the NBA basketball team the Phoenix Suns in 2004.

Landon received his undergraduate degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in 1980.

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