Boy Scouts name Catti to distinguished citizen award

CATTI Joe Catti, president and CEO of FineMark National Bank & Trust, has been named the 2009 Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Boy Scouts of America, Southwest Florida Council.

The Distinguished Citizen Award recognizes individuals who have rendered outstanding service to the community, state or nation. The award has been presented each year in Southwest Florida since 1991. Former honorees include Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp, Dudley Goodlette, Dr. Kenneth Walker, George Sanders, Jim Newton, Jody Hendry, T. Wayne Miller, Sen. Connie Mack, Rep. Porter Goss, Dr. David Brown III, David Lucas, Gary Trippe, Steve Shimp, W. Bernard Lester, Lou and Steve Pontius and Rusty Whitley.

“Joe Catti demonstrates extraordinary integrity, character and civicmindedness,” said Dan Dannenhauer, co-chairman of the distinguished citizen committee for the Southwest Florida Council. “He is an exceptional role model for today’s Scouts and an outstanding example of the good works, values and service that the Distinguished Citizen Award is designed to honor.”

Mr. Catti is extensively involved in the Lee County community. He currently serves as the United Way campaign chairman, on the finance committee of the Lee Memorial Health System’s publicly elected board of directors, is an executive and finance committee member of the Lee Memorial Health System Foundation, and is a member and past chairman of the Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation. In 2005, he received the Lee County Philanthropist of the Year award in the area of fund raising. 