Palmer G. Jackson Jr.

Palmer G. Jackson, Jr. is a fourth-generation Santa Barbara native. A graduate of Yale University and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Palmer has spent his career in consumer marketing, high technology, nonprofit management, and fundraising.

Palmer currently serves as Executive Chairman of the Granada Theatre. He also serves as Managing Trustee of the Ann Jackson Family Foundation. Palmer recently completed two years as Chair of the Santa Barbara Foundation Roundtable, a group of about 25 local foundations that meet monthly and also sponsor the annual Partnership For Excellence Conference for local nonprofits.

As an active member of the Santa Barbara business community, Palmer helped found American Riviera Bank in 2005 and served as a director until 2009. American Riviera Bank was the first new community bank formed in Santa Barbara in decades and now has assets of more than $600 million.