Founder, president, and CEO of Fortune International Group, Edgardo Defortuna, has been named to Florida Trend’s Florida 500, honoring his lasting impact on Miami’s skyline and real estate landscape. Defortuna likes to say he came to the United States from Argentina as a young man planning to take a three-month English course and return home. But he fell in love with Miami, earning his MBA at UM, and helping pioneer the Latin American real estate market that continues to change the city’s skyline with luxury condominiums. In the early 1980s, he says, “people were not focusing on Latin America as a potential customer for real estate.” Today the Fortune International Group is a full-service real estate firm that has built the Ritz-Carlton Residences Sunny Isles Beach, Auberge Beach Residences & Spa, Una, Missoni Baia and Gran Paraiso, among others.