Landon Taylor is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LegacyFirst, a vertically integrated investment management and commercial real estate services firm that transforms underutilized assets into engines of economic prosperity and enduring legacy. He leads the firm’s strategic direction, growth, and investment strategy; chairs its Senior Management Committee; and serves on its Investment Committee.
An accomplished CEO, operator, and corporate strategist, Landon has spent more than 30 years creating new markets, expanding earnings, and strengthening brand reputation across real estate, technology, and financial services. He is recognized as an architect of economic prosperity — a leader who aligns institutional capital with measurable community impact to produce durable, risk-adjusted returns. His guiding conviction is that superior financial performance and catalyzing inclusive economic prosperity are not competing objectives but the same opportunity, properly structured.
That thesis is most fully demonstrated at Freedom West 2.0, a ten-acre, $3.1 billion revitalization three blocks from San Francisco City Hall, where his client — Freedom West Homes Corporation — is the largest affordable housing cooperative on the West Coast. Engaged in 2018 as the asset approached default, LegacyFirst under Landon’s leadership executed a full-cycle transformation: rebuilding operations and governance, restoring access to institutional capital, and repositioning the property into a fully entitled, mixed-use investment platform. Net operating income from existing operations grew 372% in five years through operational discipline alone, and a $9.25 million institutional refinancing was closed with JPMorgan Chase following a prior lender rejection. A separate strategy converted unstable per-unit income into federally backed cash flow, lifting per-unit revenue roughly 3.5 times. Today the platform is positioned to achieve long-term economic self-sustainability for the nonprofit cooperative while reversing the City of San Francisco’s annual fiscal deficit — projected to deliver a $237 million net benefit to the City’s General Fund over 30 years, a five-to-one return on public infrastructure investment — all while preserving cooperative ownership and stability for approximately 1,000 existing residents through development without displacement.
Before leading the strategic spinout of LegacyFirst, Landon served as CEO of MacFarlane Partners’ Investment Management Group, where he oversaw the firm’s overall growth and platform expansion. He previously spent 13 years at First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a Fortune 500 real estate information services company, where he led four high-growth ventures, including First American VMS, First American New Market Ventures, and the Strategic Markets Division of First American Title Insurance Company.
Landon is deeply committed to catalyzing economic mobility and inclusive prosperity — a commitment that runs through both his investment management work and his civic leadership. In 2015, he co-founded Base 11, a national nonprofit organization focused on STEM entrepreneurship and workforce development, aimed at helping build a sustainable, broadly inclusive American middle class. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of AFIRE (Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate), where he chairs the AFIRE Mentorship Program. His prior board service includes First American Title Insurance Company, Operation HOPE, UC Irvine Beall Applied Innovation, NAHREP, and West Angeles Ventures.
Landon holds a B.S. in Management from Pepperdine University and has completed executive programs at Stanford University and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
