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Ralph Holmes joined the San Francisco banking staff of De La Rosa & Co. in 2006, bringing 10 years of public-finance experience to the firm�s San Francisco office. Holmes has a proven record of providing creative solutions to cities across California. His innovative financing structures, prudent use of financial products, and comprehensive services have served clients well in a broad variety of land-secured, water and sewer, and lease financings.
Before coming to De La Rosa, Holmes worked for eight years as a Managing Director at the Piper Jaffray underwriting firm, where he worked on more than 150 financings, including more than 60 for redevelopment agencies for a par amount exceeding $1 billion. He also led the firm�s synthetic fixed-rate effort, structuring several interest-rate swaps to maximize funding sources and cash-flow savings for issuers. Earlier in his career he was a credit analyst in National Westminster Bank�s public finance department.
Holmes received an MBA from the Garvin School of International Management (Thunderbird) in 1996, and a Bachelor�s degree in Latin American Studies from UCLA in 1994. | 