Rich Wolkowitz is founder of Xylogenesis | Family Office Advisory and serves as a family advisor with more than 25 years of firsthand, inner-working experience of multiple family offices of all types. Wolkowitz’s background is in law, business, independent board service, management, operations, financial services, and professional service firm leadership with a focus on serving multigenerational families and their full business and life continuum of needs.

Wolkowitz began his legal career in The White House and then joined an Am Law 100 firm. At the firm, he was an equity partner, was chair of the firm’s hiring committee, and practiced international and domestic mergers and acquisitions and business transactions, serving as outside general counsel and consigliere to public, private-equity- and venture-capital-backed, and family enterprises.

Wolkowitz then joined his own family’s third-generation enterprise before managing two different single-family offices as a nonfamily leader. Prior to founding Xylogenesis, Wolkowitz managed a global family business consulting firm. He now consults for family offices, whether existing or in concept, supporting the family, their family office staff, and team of multidisciplinary trusted advisors.

Wolkowitz graduated with distinction from the Georgetown University Law Center with a master of laws in international transactions and comparative law. He received his law degree at Gonzaga University School of Law, where he graduated cum laude and served as editor of the Gonzaga Law Review, and received a bachelor of science in agriculture economics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, graduating with honors. He resides in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.