PROFILE
Steve Pollack, President & CEO Anchor Loans
Doctor, Landlord, Poker Champ, Lender STEVE POLLACK’S ECLECTIC CLIMB TO THE TOP OF A 60 BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY By Graham Womack, Contributing Writer
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his
lending company he now leads, Steve
career choices, Steve held on to the
optometry
Pollack always knew he wanted
entrepreneurial spirit and work
from UC Berkeley, building
to be in business for himself. His
ethic he acquired early in life.
a successful optometry practice,
first successful business was as a
investing in rental properties, playing
young boy mowing neighborhood
With an early love for board and card
professional poker for several years,
lawns in New York, and as he went
games and a head for numbers, that
or building the multi-billion dollar
on to travel a diverse landscape of
Steve would be drawn to professional
ong
before
doctorate
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earning in
