Mike Kadish was born in 1954 in Northern New Jersey. He got his B.S. in Economics from U. Penn’s Wharton Business School and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Mike started his career in the Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, then practiced law with various law firms in California, moved to Darien in 1989, returned to practice law with some friends in California in 1996, then came back to Darien where he has remained since 2002. After returning to Connecticut, he served as in-house bank regulatory counsel for Citibank, Deutsche Bank, and Royal Bank of Scotland/Citizens Bank, then joined a fintech firm, Total Bank Solutions, in 2017, where he was general counsel until TBS was acquired in 2022. He was of counsel to the law firm of Joseph Cohen & Del Vecchio but became self-employed January 1, 2026, working on banking law matters from the comfort of his home office.
Mike’s maternal grandfather was a sportswriter in NJ, and imbued Mike with a love for baseball that still endures six decades later, although he annoyed his family by becoming a Yankee fan. He has three adult children, all of whom attended school in Darien for some part of their education, but are now scattered across the country, and two young grandsons. Mike’s wife, Sadae, grew up in Taipei and Tokyo, and they enjoy occasional trips to those cities to visit her family.