David H. Lewis

David Lewis is a Co-founder of Pinnacle Performance Company (www.pinper.com). As President and CEO, Mr. Lewis brings an extensive combination of artistic and business experience to Pinnacle Performance Company. Lewis’s corporate track record includes spending the better part of the last 16 years in both executive-level sales & marketing positions at Fortune 500 companies as well as helping to start up and build the initial sales forces at hi-tech and Internet start-up companies, SupportSoft, Kovair & Realm.

In 2004, he co-founded LastLine Endeavors, a film development and production company, where he produced the award-winning film Brothers 3: An American Gothic. In addition to producing, Mr. Lewis has been acting professionally for nearly 20 years. He has worked onstage or in film with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Stowe, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, John Heard, Neal McDonough, Patrick Wilson and more. He has performed in numerous stage and film projects, including the leads in the notable theater classics Our Town, Born Yesterday, Crimes of the Heart and Pride of the Yankees. In addition to numerous commercials, his recent film credits include Sunset Town, Welcome to Cooksville (Producer), The Gun, The Age of Fiction, Space Daze and Brothers 3: An American Gothic.

In 2006, Lewis co-founded the screenplay acquisition and development company, MidCoast Development (www.midcoastdevelopment.com), to help provide a conduit for the many emerging and largely unknown Midwestern US screenwriters and their work to help them gain exposure to the influences of major movie studios, production companies and actors on the West and East Coasts.