Joseph M. DuCote

Mr. DuCote is a native Californian who has been active in all phases of public and private finance during his 33 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. In association with investment banking colleagues, he has structured and/or placed the following:

• More than 200 issues, totaling approximately $15 billion, of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities for the United States and international markets.


• More than 250 issues, totaling approximately $7.50 billion, of dollar and other currency-denominated debt of U.S. and foreign corporations.


• More than 525 issues, totaling approximately $14.8 billion, of taxable (corporate/agency) and tax-exempt municipal securities distributed to domestic and international clients.

Mr. DuCote has direct sales supervision to client portfolio accounts having a current market value in excess of $35 billion. He has also served as an advisor to the executive branch of the United States Government on strategic investment and securities-related public policy issues and he 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 serves on the Board of Directors for Interplast, Inc. a Sunnyvale Based a California based nonprofit public benefit corporation without members.  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. 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 holds a bachelor's degree in political science (1965) and a master's degree in public administration (1968) from the University of California, Berkeley.