Steve Bucci

Steve Bucci: Steve has been helping people decode and master personal credit and debt issues for the last 20 years. For more than a decade, he has authored a popular weekly personal finance column for the financial mega-site Bankrate (www.bankrate.com). He also writes a weekly column on credit scoring that appears on CreditCards.com. Steve is also a personal credit coach, speaker, and expert witness.

Steve was formerly president of the Money Management International Financial Education Foundation and the president of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Southern New England. He founded the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Rhode Island and the University of Rhode Island Center for Personal Financial Education.

Steve began his career in counseling at the Yale Psychiatric Institute before switching to business careers in management consulting and then finance, developing and bringing to market both publicly and privately traded investment products. Steve returned to his first love, helping individuals, in 1991, this time using his financial and management experience to launch Rhode Island’s first private, nonprofit financial counseling agency.

Steve has served as director of the CDNE Education Foundation, the University of Rhode Island Center for Personal Financial Education, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, the Better Business Bureau of Rhode Island, the National Network Non-Profit Services, and the Investment Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. He is currently a member of the investment board at South County Health Care Systems. He was named Visiting Executive in Residence at the University of Rhode Island in 2005. Steve received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Rhode Island at Kingston. He and his wife, Barbara, live with their two cats, Peanut Butter and Smokey, at Sand Hill Cove in the seaside community of Narragansett, Rhode Island.