Board of Directors

William Freeman

Mr. Freeman is an Insolvency & Restructuring partner with the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He practices in the area of creditors' rights. His principal areas of emphasis include all aspects of bankruptcy law, negotiating and drafting commercial credit and collateral agreements for institutional clients in a problem loan or work out context, and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Mr. Freeman provides creditors' rights advice and services for domestic and foreign banks, indenture trustees, investment funds, bondholders, distressed debt investors, insurance companies and trade creditors. He represents official and unofficial unsecured creditors' committees and bondholders’ committees in major bankruptcy cases throughout the United States. In addition, he represents real estate developers, funds and real estate equity interests in connection with the acquisition and disposition of distressed real estate both within and outside of formal reorganization proceedings. Mr. Freeman also represents clients in the acquisition of assets, claims and/or equity in connection with Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

Mr. Freeman earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.

Gregory Meis

Greg Meis is senior vice president and manager of City National Bank’s Special Assets Department, a position he held in 2000.
 
Between 2006 and 2009, Mr. Meis served as senior vice president and manager of Credit Risk Review. He also has served as senior vice president and senior loan officer at the bank’s Long Beach Commercial Banking Services office, as SVP and manager of the bank’s asset-based lending unit, and as a vice president and special assets officer.
 
He joined City National in 1991 following nearly a decade with Lloyd’s Bank California/Sanwa Bank California. His expertise includes special assets, asset-based lending, equipment leasing, commercial lending and credit analysis.
 
Mr. Meis serves on the Board of Directors of the Special Assets Management Association and the Risk Management Association’s Credit Risk Certification program. He has also had two articles published in the RMA Journal.
 
Mr. Meis earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in economics from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

Seth Moldoff

Seth Moldoff is a Senior Vice Pesident, Northern Division Manager for Wells Fargo Bank’s Credit Resolution Group, based in San Francisco. He manages a team of relationship managers and administrative staff in San Francisco and Portland, OR who work on resolving complex problem loans.

Seth has worked for Wells Fargo for15 years. Prior to Wells Fargo, Seth worked for AIDC, Ltd, an Australian-based merchant bank, where he worked on resolving problem loans and equity investments, and Citibank, where he worked on resolving problem loans and financing highly leveraged transactions. Seth began his banking career with Continental Illinois National Bank in the Oil and Gas Lending Division.
 
Seth has a BA in Economics and Anthropology from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is married and has three sons.

Mike Zandpour

Mike Zandpour is Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel of City National Bank.

Mr. Zandpour previously served as Special Assets Department Manager and Assistant General Counsel for Far East National Bank.

Mr. Zandpour serves as an advisory member to the California State Bar Financial Institutions Committee and on the Board of the Special Assets Management Association. Mr. Zandpour previously served as a Judicial Extern for the Honorable Robert W. Alberts, United States Federal Bankruptcy Court.

Mr. Zandpour received a Jurist Doctorate from The Ohio State University (Moritz) College of Law where he served on the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution. Mr. Zandpour completed a comparative law summer program at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with honors from California State University Fullerton.

Tingting Zhang

Dr. Zhang is the Founder and President of the TerraCotta Group LLC. She is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the company and sits on TerraCotta’s investment committee.

Prior to founding TerraCotta, Dr. Zhang was a senior consultant with the Eurasia Group, a world’s leading economic and political consulting firm. During her tenure at Eurasia Group, she conducted political and economic risk analyses for senior executives of global financial companies and such Fortune 500 companies as Citigroup, AIG, Deutsche Bank, and Price Waterhouse Coopers. She also provided consulting services for the National Intelligence Council of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and was a primary contributor to the development of the Deutsche Bank-Eurasia Group Stability Index (DESIX), the first and only political risk index on Wall Street. She has contributed to a number of research projects that were featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Newsweek, and The Economist. She has written and published extensively on the subjects of public finance, central-local relations and environmental issues in developing economies. She has also appeared on CNN, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, CNBC, KTLA-TV (Los Angeles), and has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times and the L.A Daily News. Dr. Zhang co-founded the Special Assets Management Association (SAMA), the only trade association for banking executives in special assets management. She sits on SAMA’s Board of Directors as a Co-Chair. Dr. Zhang holds two Master’s degrees, in Statistics and International Relations as well as a Doctorate in International Political Economy from the University of California, Los Angeles.