The founder of Yankee Advisers LLC and one of two members of the firm. He is a forty-plus year veteran money manager who started the Multi-Manager Fund in January 1995. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, Joseph joined Smith Barney & Company in 1972, eventually becoming a shareholder and Vice-President of Sales. In 1983 he founded the investment banking and brokerage firm of McGraw, Valeo and Company. During the late 1980s, he was a founding partner of several investment firms.