Michael Taylor

Over the past 35, years Mike has worked successfully in the banking and real estate industries. The first 18 years of his career were spent as a senior executive of both LA-based, Topa Savings Bank (formally known as Bel Air Savings and Loan) and Topa Thrift and Loan, which were owned by his mentor, John E. Anderson, for whom the UCLA Anderson School of Management is named. Mike was instrumental in successfully navigating the institutions through the Savings and Loan crisis of the early 90′s and was a key contributor in the successful negotiations to sell the Institutions to a Midwest bank holding company in late 1997. Mike directly supervised a portfolio of over $2 billion in real estate loans and was hands-on in the supervision of all litigation matters, REO Sales and problem loan work outs. After the sale of the company, Mike was President and CEO of Royal Bank, a small bank in Los Angeles, for a brief period of time and guided the owners and Board of Directors in achieving approval of a consolidation plan from the Federal banking regulators.