Alex Dreyfoos, MPFI Trustee. accepts Community Leader of the Year Award. 2014

On April 11th, 2014, Alex. W Dreyfoos was honored by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches with the Community Leader of the Year Award.

Mr. Dreyfoos is a beloved member of the Palm Beach community, however his impact on society reaches much further than Southern Florida.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos is an engineer, inventor, and business leader. He founded Photo Electronics Corporation and owned and operated WPEC TV 12.

Mr. Dreyfoos holds a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is an inventor, holding ten U.S. and numerous foreign patents in the fields of electronics and photography.

In 1970, Mr. Dreyfoos's company received an Academy Award from for its development of a motion picture video analyzer.

Mr. Dreyfoos's most noteworthy philanthropic achievements include founding the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and the Dreyfoos Hall of the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. He is well known for making the largest donation in history to a Florida public school, which was renamed the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. He was the first person named to the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute following the organizations expansion into Florida.

Mr. Dreyfoos's most recent gift in support of scientific research of the brain was a $1 million gift to the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience.

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