Herb Sandler

Herb Sandler and wife Marion are co-chairmen and co-chief executive officers of Golden West Financial Corp. in Oakland, the parent company of World Savings Bank, one of the nation's largest savings and loans with assets of almost $80 billion, deposits of $46 billion and 9,300 employees as of November 30, 2003.

Golden West, which operates 477 offices in 38 states including California, is also one of the largest residential lenders in the United States, originating $25.1 billion of mortgages during the first nine months of 2003 and almost $27 billion in 2002.

Herb (72) and Marion (73), were married in 1961 and purchased Golden West in 1963.

Herb Sandler is listed among hundreds of others who have officially met with Senator John Kerry as a lobbyist [1].