Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR) 10-K 2004 FY Annual report

Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Andrew S. Duff, Sandra G. Sponem and James L. Chosy, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Piper Jaffray Companies (the “Company”) for the Company’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, and any or all amendments to said Form 10-K, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to file the same with such other authorities as necessary, granting unto each such attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each such attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated and effective as of the 3rd of March, 2005.

/s/ Andrew S. Duff	/s/ B. Kristine Johnson
Andrew S. Duff, Chairman and Chief	B. Kristine Johnson, Director
Executive Officer
/s/ Sandra G. Sponem	/s/ Samuel L. Kaplan
Sandra G. Sponem	Samuel L. Kaplan, Director
Chief Financial Officer
/s/ Addison L. Piper	/s/ Frank L. Sims
Addison L. Piper, Vice Chairman	Frank L. Sims, Director
/s/ Michael R. Francis	/s/ Richard A. Zona
Michael R. Francis, Director	Richard A. Zona, Director