John E. Anderson

John E. Anderson is President and sole shareholder of Topa Equities, Ltd., and oversees more than 40 wholly-owned subsidiaries involved in agriculture,  insurance, real estate, wholesale beverage distribution and automotive dealerships.

Mr. Anderson moved to Los Angeles from his hometown of Minneapolis and entered UCLA with an ice hockey scholarship. During his years at UCLA he worked the swing shift at North American Aviation in Inglewood. In the years since, he has built a multifaceted career as a lawyer and business entrepreneur. With James H. Kindel, Jr., he founded the law firm of Kindel & Anderson. He is the sole stockholder of Topa Insurance Company; Dorchester Insurance
Company; Ace Beverage Co.; Mission Beverage Co.; Paradise Beverages, Inc.; West Indies Corporation; Bellows International, Ltd.; Silver Star A.G., Ltd.; Silver Star Motor CarCompany; Topa Motors, Inc. and several other entities.

John Anderson is also a CPA and a member of theCalifornia State Bar. He has been a professor law at Loyola University School of Law and has taught several business courses at UCLA. He is past Chairman of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles, a Trustee and former President
of Saint John's Hospital and Health Center Foundation, and Trustee of Claremont McKenna College. He was named Southern California Entrepreneur of the Year in 1987, Outstanding Individual Philanthropist on National Philanthropy Day in 1988, Master Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002, and was honored by the 2003 Business Hall of Fameas the Business Person of the year.

In 1987 the UCLA Graduate School of Management was renamed The John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA in honor of Anderson's contributions to
the School and University. In 1985 he received the Distinguished Service Award of Loyola Law School where the John E. Anderson Chair of Taxation was recently established. In May 1995 Anderson received the UCLA Alumnus of the Year Award, and in June 1995, he was presented with the UCLA Medal.

Mr. Anderson received a B.S. from UCLA, and MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business (where he was a George Fisher Baker Scholar), and a J.D. from Loyola University school of Law.