David S. Wolff was appointed to the METRO Board by the City of Houston and named Chairman in February 2004.
Mr. Wolff is Chairman and President of Wolff Companies, a privately owned, Houston-based holding company, which oversees his investments in real estate, financial assets, the professional sports business, and farming and ranching.

He graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1962 and with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1964. He has served as a Trustee of Amherst College and is presently a Trustee Emeritus. He has been an advisor to the faculty of Harvard Business School in the development of the study of entrepreneurship and was Chairman of the record-setting 35th Reunion Capital Campaign of his Harvard Business School class.

He performed his military service with the U.S. Coast Guard and, subsequently, as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy.

David Wolff founded Wolff, Morgan and Company in 1970, which evolved into Wolff Companies in 1985 and has guided the company to its leadership position as Houston's largest developer of office, business and industrial parks. The Company has developed thousands of acres in metropolitan Houston including Park 10, Westway Park, Interwood, First Crossing and Ten Oaks.

He is a partner in and member of the Executive Committee of San Francisco Baseball Associates, L.P. and China Basin Ballpark Company, L.L.C. which own, respectively, the San Francisco Giants (MLB) and their home stadium, SBC Park. Mr. Wolff's other business interests include a 1,500-acre working cattle ranch in Independence, Texas, which he has operated for more than 30 years, and land that is being developed for vineyards in the Napa Valley of California.

Mr. Wolff served for 12 years on the Houston Parks Board, including two terms as Chairman. He has been Vice President and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Houston Grand Opera, and was a founding director of the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District. He was a founder and Executive Committee member of the Houston Economic Development Council and served on the Board of Directors of the Houston Chamber of Commerce. He also founded the West Houston Association and was its Chairman for six years.

Mr. Wolff is a member of the Real Estate Roundtable, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, and the National Real Estate Advisory Council of the Trust for Public Land.
He and his wife, Mary, have been married for more than thirty years and have two daughters, Carolyn and Elizabeth.