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Andrew Coen is a Northeast Regional Reporter for The Bond Buyer. His major coverage has included New Jersey’s pension funding challenges, Atlantic City’s credit crisis and ambitious capital projects being undertaken by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He also hosts Bond Buyer podcasts and videos.Previously, Coen was an associate digital editor in SourceMedia’s Investment Advisory Group comprised of Financial Planning, On Wall Street, Bank Investment Consultant and Money Management Executive. He was also reporter for Municipal Finance Today.Prior to arriving at SourceMedia in July 2013, Coen worked at AOL as an editor covering local news for Wantagh-Seaford Patch on Long Island. He also had reporting stints with Crain’s InvestmentNews, Institutional Investor News and Herald Community Newspapers.A Rhode Island native, Coen graduated from Hofstra University on Long Island in 2002 with a B.A. in Print Journalism and minor in History. He was also active in the university’s award-winning radio station, WRHU.

Usama Shamma is a senior program manager / chief data architect for Ejada Systems Co. Ltd. with over 18 years of experience spearheaded the success of multimillion-dollar projects for major clients spanning multiple industries mainly banking and telecom industries. He is a North America and EMEA 2014 & 2015 PMI global congress subject matter expert, and a public technical speaker at international events. He holds a Bachelor degree in computer science. He holds many professional certificates and has been published in a number of publications. Contact him at usama.shamma@gmail.com.

Gary Tyreman brings more than 20 years of executive leadership to his role as the president and chief executive officer at Univa Corporation. As CEO, he leads all of Univa's global operations and is the architect of Univa's data center automation strategy, which combines the deep expertise of Grid Engine with Univa's solutions for optimizing and managing IT workloads including containers. Gary has established Univa as a recognized software provider to hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies in multiple industries. Prior to taking this role, Gary was SVP of products and alliances at Univa.

Michael Ryan is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.

Dale Van Demark is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.

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Lisa Schmitz Mazur is a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.