Louis Wolfson is co-founder of Pinnacle, a Miami-based full-service real estate development and construction company that builds high-quality workforce and market-rate housing across Florida. Wolfson, who co-founded Pinnacle in 1997, engages in the visionary and planning aspects of Pinnacle’s business ventures and oversees their landmark Art in Public Places programing, which helps to rejuvenate neighborhoods through both civic engagement and revitalization planning.

As a fourth-generation Miamian, Louis Wolfson has devoted his professional life to working toward the betterment of South Florida through entrepreneurial business enterprises and charitable endeavors.

After graduating from Stetson’s School of Business, Mr. Wolfson was employed in the family business, Wometco Enterprises, a diversified entertainment conglomerate that included television, cable TV operations, movie theaters and Coca-Cola bottling. After Wometco sold to KKR in 1983, he founded numerous other companies including most notably “The Video Jukebox” (Interactive Video / Cable TV) in 1984, which grew into being publicly traded on NASDAQ with over 50 million subscribers worldwide before being purchased by MTV in 1998.

Mr. Wolfson compiled years of experience and gained an immense passion for affordable housing development, finance, management and community relations before becoming one of the founders of Pinnacle. In 1984 Mr. Wolfson served as a Board member and then the Chairman of Greater Miami Neighborhoods, which eventually grew into the largest non-profit developer of affordable housing in Florida. Under Mr. Wolfson’s leadership over 6,000 units of housing valued at over $300,000,000 were completed. In total, over the past 36 years in this industry, Mr. Wolfson has overseen the development of nearly 20,000 units of Affordable Housing serving over 50,000 residents.

Mr. Wolfson is highly regarded for his work at Miami Dade College and serves as the Chairman of MDC’s Investment Committees where he has helped both raise and manage the investments of over $500 million in endowments. Mr. Wolfson also lends his expertise to many other local organizations including: The Miami Foundation, The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, The Wolfsonian Museum, The Miami City Ballet, The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami Jewish Health Systems, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Baptist Hospital, The Bakery Center, Oolite Arts, The Education Fund and The Underline. He has been recognized for his endeavors and has been awarded the United Ways Tocqueville Award, MCCJ’s Silver Medallion Award, and the James W. McLamore Award.