Joe F. Martinez

Mr. Martinez has held senior positions as CEO, CFO, Treasurer and Board Member of several publicly traded companies. He has an extensive background as an investment banker and venture capital partner. He founded and was CEO of a Silicon Valley-based investment bank and was a Venture Partner with Osprey Ventures. He co-founded and served as the President of a full-service regional investment banking firm and started an investment banking group for Citigroup. Prior to his investment banking career, he was an executive with Xerox, IBM, and a variety of high-technology start-up companies that he was instrumental in taking public. He comes from a military family and served honorably as a platoon leader in the US Army in Vietnam, where he was wounded in action. He is a graduate of the United States infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He is a member of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s Professional Advisory Council, and has undergrad and graduate degrees from Adams State and the University of Denver.