Joseph M. DuCote

Mr. DuCote is a native Californian who has been active in all phases of public and private finance during his 40 year investment banking career. Mr. DuCote was a managing director for two major Wall Street brokerage firms before co-founding Sutter Securities. In this capacity he was active in the market for both domestic and international securities issues, managing the underwriting, distribution and secondary market-making of both tax-exempt and taxable fixed-income products.

Mr. DuCote has direct sales supervision to client portfolio accounts having a current market value in excess of US $450 billion. He has also served as an advisor to various branches of government on strategic investment and securities-related public policy issues and has an extensive background in global finance.

Mr. DuCote is a member of the San Francisco Bond Club and the Municipal Bond Club of San Francisco. He has served as director of the Seton Medical Foundation, as well as of the Friends of the International Student Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He served as a member of Napa County's Silverado Country Club Board of Directors (1998-1999) and their President for the year 2000. Mr. DuCote currently is a member of the board of Interplast Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based global not for profit provider of surgical services.  Mr. DuCote presently serves as Interplast’s CFO/Treasurer.  He also serves on the board of the Sacramento Regional Sports Education Foundation. Mr. DuCote holds a bachelor's degree in political science (1965) and a master's degree in public administration (1968) from the University of California, Berkeley.  For the academic year 2010-2011, Joe shall be a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design’s Institute of Urban and Regional Development.