Meet the Board of Directors: Part 1:
Mr. Villarreal has spent his career building and successfully managing companies primarily in the financial services industry as well maintaining significant long term organized labor and political relationships. He is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Grand Monarch Holdings Incorporated and has been the Chairman of the Board of American Union Financial Services, Inc. (“AUFS”) since he founded it in April 2004. Previously, from 2000 to 2005, Mr. Villarreal served as the Chief Operating Officer of American Residential Funding, Inc., a multi billion-dollar national real estate and financial services company. From 1992 to 2000 Mr. Villarreal was President of L.S. Inland Ventures, Inc. which developed commercial real estate and moderate-income housing developments. Between 1998 and 2000, he was President and CEO of Solomon Trust Foundation, a philanthropic charitable organization providing direct financial assistance to low and moderate-income families to facilitate home ownership opportunities. Mr. Villarreal also served as Human Resources Director and National Director for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 for a subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co. during his tenure from 1980 through 1988 for which he received a Congressional Office Distinction of Service Award. From 1976 to 1980 Mr. Villarreal served as Administrative Assistant to former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley with responsibility for all organized labor relations and employees of the City of Los Angeles. Prior to recruitment into his Mayoral office responsibilities Mr. Villarreal was the youngest Field Representative for the Laborers’ International Union of North America (“LIUNA”) from 1973 to 1976 and attended California State University Los Angeles where he studied Business Administration and was a 1978 Trade Union Fellow at Harvard University - Graduate School of Business and John F. Kennedy School of Government.
