Jan 17, 2018

The San Diego 500, The Book of Influential Business Leaders, is the market’s most comprehensive product of people you should know in the business community. The 500 includes business leaders and executives who have founded or are running significant companies in terms of number of jobs, key products and services, experts who raise the level of the industry here and beyond and those who lead in the business community. The 500 is selected by the San Diego Business Journal newsroom. Christopher Weil Chairman, Christopher Weil & Co. Inc. Weil formed the original CWC in March 1971 as an NASD/SEC securities broker-dealer and operated CWC and an affiliate real estate investment firm until 1985, when he sold both to a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, staying on as chairman until 1988. In 1989, he formed The Weil Co. (which in 1996 adopted Christopher Weil & Co., Inc. as its ‘dba’) to continue the CWC investor, manager and advisor business. Weil has been in the investment firm business for over 40 years. He is the director of the San Diego Grantmakers, the San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival and the Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundation. ALMA MATER: University of California, Los Angeles TRAVELS: Italy AFTER HOURS: His passion is to work to support his philanthropic interests. OUTREACH: The Patricia and Christopher Weil Family Foundation .