William D Rutherford

A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Oregon, William served as Treasurer of the State of Oregon, chair of the Oregon Investment Council (with responsibility for investing $14 billion at a time when Oregon was generally regarded as the best public investment fund in the nation), a four-term member of the Oregon House of Representatives, and Co-Chair of the Council of Institutional Investors.

He has served as President, CEO and Board member of two investment companies with offices in New York City, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Frankfurt. He has been a board member of a number of international and domestic companies. William aided with the restructuring of Metallgesellschaft, an international trading, oil and gas company, and Europe’s 10th largest company.

William Rutherford has been quoted and published in:

The New York Times
Wall Street Journal
The London Guardian
Smart money Magazine
Business Week
Money Management Forum
Christian Science Monitor
Chief Executive Magazine
Reuters

He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg Television, and served as speaker at numerous investor conferences. William is the author of Who Shot Goldilocks? How Alan Greenspan Did In Our Jobs, Savings, and Retirement Plans.

Chief Operating Officer

James M Ulatowski

James has led the operations division since 1998. Prior to coming to work for Rutherford Investment Management he was an executive in the retail industry with two publicly traded firms. He also worked as an independent consultant on projects for charitable organizations and companies such as PacifiCorp. James has a Bachelors Degree and an MBA from Portland State University, where he served as the Chapter President of the Economics Association. While there he was also a member of the honor societies Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi. James lives in the Portland area with his wife Diana, and teenage son Randy.