Dwight C. Schar is Chairman of the Board of NVR, Inc., the fiſth-largest homebuilder in the United States. The company is comprised of the building operations of Ryan Homes and NVHomes.
Also under the NVR umbrella is NVR Financial, which is comprised of NVR Mortgage and NVR Settlement Services. The company is based in Reston, Va., and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Schar has been extremely active in the greater Washington community, involved in numerous business and educational groups.
Previously, Schar served as a trustee of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Engineering Foundation, was a member on the Virginia Business and Higher Education Council and was appointed to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the Kennedy Center.
Schar has also served as National Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee. In addition, he was a member of the Board of Directors for the Pittsburgh Pirates, First American Banks, the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, Bell Atlantic Company of Virginia, and the United Way of the Capital Area.
Schar served on the Board for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and has also been a trustee for the George Mason University Foundation, Ashland University and the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges.
He has also been a council member of the Northern Virginia Roundtable, and the Governor’s Regional Economic Development Council.
Schar is a graduate of Ashland University.
