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South Africa native and La Jolla resident Selwyn Isakow is known in the financial world as the founder, chairman and chief executive of private equity, real estate and venture investment firm The Oxford Investment Group Inc. But his philanthropic efforts span from supporting cancer research to alleviating poverty in the Jewish community.
Q. What brought you to La Jolla?
A. “After 23 years in Detroit, my wife and I came to a wedding in San Diego over Thanksgiving weekend in 2004. We left Michigan in a bitterly cold, gray, blustery snowstorm and arrived in picture-perfect Southern California chamber of commerce weather. After a couple of days, my wife stood on the corner of Prospect Street and Exchange Place in La Jolla and said, ‘This is where we are moving. Make a plan!’ A couple of years later, I founded a bank in La Jolla and we now live two blocks from that fateful corner!”