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Matt Posner is founder and principal of CSG. Mr. Posner has more than a decade of experience in public finance and policy. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance on infrastructure finance problems facing the country and spent years educating staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission on public policy and market implications. Mr. Posner has been quoted on his views and published in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Bloomberg News, The Bond Buyer, the Municipal Finance Journal and the Government Finance Officers Association’s Government Finance Review, among others. Court Street Group LLC is a research and consulting firm based in Brooklyn, New York. At CSG, we build bridges among Washington, Wall Street and the Fintech worlds with strong market research and extensive, independent policy experience. CSG also has ties to Latin America and helps clients navigate there.

Patrick McCoy is the Director of Finance at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York where he manages the Authority's debt portfolio (currently $35 billion) and directs the issuance of over $2 billion in tax-exempt municipal bonds annually under the Authority's multi credit borrowing structure. The MTA is an active issuer of debt obligations to finance the bond funded portion of MTA's Capital Program. Pat has previously served as the Executive Director of the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, a public benefit corporation of the City of New York that provides capital financing for the City's water and sewer system. Pat was Executive Director of New York Water from January 2007 through August 2008.Previous positions include:Deputy Director of Finance for the MTA, 2002 through 2004, and Director of Finance, 2004 — 2007.Manager of Investor Relations for the NewPower Company, a publicly traded retail energy provider headquartered in Purchase, New York. Mr. McCoy was involved in NewPower's initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. 2001 — 2001.Manager of Investor Relations for the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, the Transitional Finance Authority (TFA) and TSASC, Inc. (Tobacco Securitization), 1994 — 2000. Pat created the first investor relations program for the Authority.Senior Budget Analyst, Office of Management and Budget, Community Development Unit. 1991 — 1994.Pat currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Westchester County Health Care Corporation and on the Executive Board of the Government Finance Officer'sAssociation of the United States and Canada (GFOA).Pat holds a M.S. Degree in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from the New School University in New York, and a B.A. from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.

Leslie M. Norwood is Managing Director and Associate General Counsel of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. She has served the Association or its predecessor organizations for over 10 years. As the Co-Head of the Municipal Securities Division, Ms. Norwood is responsible for the legal, regulatory and market practice initiatives of the Association relating to all municipal securities products.Prior to joining the Association, Ms. Norwood was an Associate in the Corporate and Securities department at Greenberg Traurig. She also spent 6 years as an Associate in the Public Finance department of Sidley Austin LLP (formerly known as Brown & Wood LLP) where she represented bond issuers, borrowers and underwriters in fixed and variable rate transactions; general obligation, subject to appropriation and revenue bond (public power, education, health care and cultural institutions) transactions; and transactions with credit enhancement. Ms. Norwood received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the New York, New Jersey and California Bars.

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