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Catherine Austin Fitts
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Catherine Austin Fitts
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Catherine is president of Solari, Inc.
and the managing member of Solari
Investment Advisory Services, LLC. She previously served as managing
director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank
Dillon, Read & Co., Inc. She also served as Assistant Secretary of
Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD in the first Bush Administration,
and was the president and founder of The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., a
broker-dealer/investment bank and software developer. Catherine has a BA from
the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the Wharton School, and studied
Chinese at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Catherine publishes the column
"Mapping
the Real Deal" in Scoop Media in New Zealand and serves on the board of the
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA.org).
Solari - http://solari.com/
Dillon, Read, and Co. Incorporated And The Aristocracy of Stock Profits (Dunwalke) - http://www.dunwalke.com/
Favorite Articles -
About the Black Budget - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00126.htm
Narco Dollars For Beginners - http://solari.com/articles/scoop_narco_dummies.htm
Catherine also wrote the foreword in Michael C. Ruppert's 2004 book, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Amazon has copies as of December 2008, here:
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
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Solari, Inc. Hickory Valley, TN
President, 1998 to date.
Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Hickory Valley, TN.
Managing Member, 2006 to date.
The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., Washington, D.C., San Francisco,
CA, and New York, NY
President, 1991-1998. Responsible for founding and building this
broker-dealer/investment bank with special emphasis on financial software
technology and advanced decision science. Transactions for government and
private clients totaled $12 billion of auctions and private placements.
Portfolio strategy for the Federal Housing Administration related to $400
billion of mortgage insurance and related securities and real estate assets and
liabilities. Transactions and portfolio strategy relied heavily on pricing
infrastructure of software, databases and pricing tools used to identify and
price existing and pro forma geographic flows of private and public income and
investment on an integrated basis.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.
Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, 1989-1990.
Responsible for the operations of the Federal Housing Administration, including:
annual originations of $50-100 billion of mortgage insurance; servicing of $320
billion of mortgage insurance, mortgages and properties, portfolio analysis and
pricing for 63,000 communities; production and management of assisted private
housing; reengineering of organization of 7,000 employees in 80 offices
nationwide; migration of systems to network systems and tools; and advisor to
the Secretary on capital markets regulatory responsibilities, including the RTC
Oversight Board, Federal Housing Finance Board and Home Loan Bank Board System,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Focus included changes in law, regulations and
administration to institute financial and appropriation controls and financial,
actuarial and place based disclosure for FHA, federal credit programs and
agencies government wide.
Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., New York, NY
Managing Director and Member, Board of Directors, 1986-1989; Senior Vice
President, 1984-1986; Vice President, 1982-1984; Associate, 1978-1982. Served in
the Corporate Finance, Energy Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Public
Finance Departments.
 | Sabbatical, MIT, Fall 1995 |
| The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.B.A., 1978 (Finance) |
| The University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1974 (History) |
| Yale-in-China Language Institute, Hong Kong, 1971(Mandarin) |
| Bennett College, A.A., 1970 (English) |
| Summer Schools, Harvard 1969, Stanford 1970 |
| Blog: solari.com |
| Column: "Mapping the Real Deal," Scoop Media |
| Regular Contributor: Le Metropole Cafe |
| Lectures/Interviews: Regular Speaker & Radio Talk Show Guest |
Church
| Member, Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, 11/97-8/00 |
| Member, Hickory Valley Baptist Church, 11/99-date |
Business & Capital Markets
| Member, Board of Directors, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), 7/04-date |
| Member, Rotary Club of Bolivar, TN, 3/04-4/06 |
| Member, Advisory Board, Sanders Research Associates, 6/01-8/04 |
| Member, The Economic Club of New York, 1/88-12/01 |
| Member, Board of Directors, Student Loan Marketing Association, Sallie Mae, 11/91-3/94 |
| Member, Board of Directors, Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., 1/86-3/89 |
| Member, Board of Directors, Carteret Savings Bank, F.A., Morristown, NJ, 6/91-12/92 |
| Member, Board of Directors, First American Corp. and First American Bankshares, Inc., 3/94-10/96 |
| Member, Advisory Council, Federal National Mortgage Association, Fannie Mae, 2/92-12/93 |
| Member, Emerging Markets Advisory Committee, Securities & Exchange Commission, 4/90-10/93 |
| Member, The Bond Club of New York, Inc., 2/88-3/89 |
Information Technology
| Member, Advisory Board, HTML.com, 11/02-12/06 |
Academic
| Member, Board of Trustees, The Friends Select School, 9/99-5/02 |
| Member, Graduate Executive Board, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 4/86-10/94 |
| Member, Board of Overseers, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 2/87-3/89 |
| Member, Board of Directors, Wharton Business School Club of New York, Inc., 12/88-3/89 |
| Member, Advisory Board, The Wharton School Club of Washington, D.C., 9/91-12/95 |
| Member, Board of Trustees, Bank Street College, 11/88-3/89 |
| Member, Capital Task Force Financial Advisory Group, New York City Board of Education, 7/87-3/89 |
Arts & Community
| Member, Board of Directors, New York City Food Bank, 3/87-3/89 |
| Member, Council for Excellence in Government, 7/91-12/97 |
| Member, The Urban Land Institute, 5/90-12/97 |
| Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, National Multi Housing Council, 4/92-12/95 |
| Member, Board of Directors, The Housing Roundtable, Inc., 1/91-12/93
Summer Internships• Santa Fe National Bank, Summer 1976 |
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