Corporate Leaders Breakfast Series: Michael Towbes

Michael Towbes is Chairman and owner of The Towbes Group, a construction, development and asset management company based in Santa Barbara. The Towbes Group manages more than 1.6 million square feet of commercial space and more than 1,850 apartment units. He has built some 6,000 housing units, a mobile home park, shopping centers, office buildings and business parks throughout Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. He has been the general contractor for several low-income housing projects for nonprofit sponsors. He is a senior life director of the National Association of Home Builders and has chaired its Commercial/Industrial Council.

Towbes is also Chairman and owner of Montecito Bank & Trust, a Santa Barbara based bank with assets of over $700 million and seven branches in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. He was one of the founders of the bank, which opened in 1975.

As a resident of Santa Barbara for more than 48 years and a community leader, he has served and chaired innumerable local nonprofit boards. He has been honored as Santa Barbara Man of the Year, and was a recipient of the News-Press Lifetime Achievement Award and the UCSB Chancellor's Medal. He has been chosen both as Santa Barbara Philanthropist of the Year and Santa Barbara Volunteer of the Year by the National Society of Fund-Raising Executives.

The Corporate Leaders Breakfast Series brings the region's business and civic leaders together to share ideas and hear from prominent executives in the community.

Register by Monday, Dec. 1