Ken Weinstein, Founder

Ken is an active entrepreneur and real estate developer in the Philadelphia area. He serves as President of Philly Office Retail, which has renovated and restored more than 400 vacant and deteriorated commercial and residential units in the Philadelphia region during the past 37 years. Philly Office Retail currently owns and manages more than 800,000 square feet of commercial and residential space in the Philadelphia region and has received nine Preservation Alliance Awards for its adaptive reuse projects.

In 2015, Ken founded Jumpstart Germantown, an award-winning community development program that trains, mentors, networks and provides funding to local residents so they can improve their own community. Now with 18 Jumpstart programs around the country, Jumpstart has graduated more than 2,500 mentees and loaned more than $50 million to aspiring developers. Ken’s mission is to revitalize neighborhoods by renovating vacant, deteriorated properties along Philadelphia’s commercial corridors. He believes that you can do well by doing good.

Ken lives in Mt. Airy with his wife, Judy, an executive coach, and can usually be found playing pickleball at the Water Tower Recreation Center. They have three children, Noah who is moving to Los Angeles to pursue his music career with the bank Koyal, Ellie who invented a chocolate 3D printer and lives with her fiancé, Jen, in NW Philly, and Ari who heads up an AI startup in San Francisco after spending 6 years working for Apple.