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Seth Magaziner was sworn in as General Treasurer for the State of Rhode Island on January 6, 2015. Seth was born and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island, and his parents taught him the importance of public service from a young age. After college, Seth worked as an elementary school teacher in rural Louisiana during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. As the recession hit businesses and families across the country, Seth went to graduate school to study how the financial system can be changed to empower working people. Returning home to Rhode Island, Seth went to work as a vice president at Trillium Asset Management, a socially responsible investment firm with more than $1 billion of assets under management.As General Treasurer, Seth is transforming the office to make it an engine for job creation, so that all Rhode Islanders have the opportunity to work. Under his leadership, the Treasurer’s office is pursuing initiatives to support small businesses and entrepreneurs, upgrade Rhode Island’s infrastructure, and work with bank and community leaders to crack down on predatory financial services and build a financial system that works for all Rhode Islanders.In his first months in office, Seth championed the successful creation of the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank – a central hub for green infrastructure financing initiatives. By using innovative financing methods, the Infrastructure Bank will fund tens of millions of dollars in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the coming years.Under Seth’s leadership, Rhode Island now has the most transparent state treasury in the nation. A major step forward for open government in Rhode Island, Seth’s "Transparent Treasury" initiative is designed to help Rhode Islanders access information about how their public funds are managed. Among other features, the new transparency initiative includes a first-of-its-kind investment policy stating that Rhode Island will only invest with fund managers that agree to public disclosure of performance, fees, expenses and liquidity. Currently, Seth is leading a national coalition of state and municipal public pension funds with approximately $1 trillion in assets that have joined together to call on the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen transparency of private equity fees and expenses.An investment professional with a strong track record, Seth brings a steady hand to Rhode Island’s retirement system. After losing almost half of its pension fund’s value during the Great Recession, Rhode Island now employs a diversified investment strategy designed to minimize risk.Seth lives in Providence and is an active member of the community. He serves on the boards of Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s largest provider of services to the homeless; and Serve Rhode Island, which promotes volunteerism and community service.Previously, Seth was the treasurer of the Campaign for Marriage Equality, and a board member of Common Cause of Rhode Island and the Bristol Fourth of July Committee. Seth holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brown University and a master’s degree in business administration from Yale University.

Ted Molin is a vice president and senior municipal credit analyst with Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc.’s tax-exempt fixed income research team. He joined Wilmington Trust in January 2011. Prior to that, he was a senior municipal credit analyst at Ambac Assurance Corporation in New York, NY, where he worked for over 20 years in many legal and credit roles, most recently as a first vice president in public finance portfolio risk management. He specializes in public and private higher education and transportation bonds. Earlier in his career, Ted was an attorney with Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in New York, NY, serving as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel on numerous public finance transactions.Ted holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in American Studies from Amherst College. He is a member of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the New York State Bar Association. Ted and his wife, Sharon, live in Wilmington, DE and Glen Ridge, NJ. They have two children, Teo and Julia.

Heather Copp is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Assistant General Manager of Finance and Administration at RTD.� Heather has worked in the public sector for 25 years, most recently as the Deputy Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Revenue.�� Prior to working at the Department of Revenue, Heather spent 20 years in the Transportation Industry primarily in the role of Chief Financial Officer.�� She has worked for the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Southern California Association of Governments, and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority.�Heather holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Metropolitan State University in Denver.

Joshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Office at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and implementing new and experimental programs and policy, and serving as the primary liaison for new ideas relevant to LA Metro coming from entrepreneurs, established private sector entities, academia, or individual residents. The office is also responsible for LA Metro’s Public Private Partnership (P3), and strategic planning functions.�Prior to joining LA Metro, Dr. Schank was President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a national non-profit think-tank with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which proposed a new vision for the Federal role in surface transportation policy.Dr. Schank was Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton during the development of the last surface transportation authorization bill (SAFETEA-LU). He has also worked as a Consultant with PB Consult and Senior Associate at ICF International in Washington, D.C., as well as serving in positions at the Office of the Inspector General’s in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.Dr. Schank’s extensive work in transportation policy and planning is well documented in his publications, including “All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding,” co-authored with Costas Panagopoulos and published by CQ Press in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in urban studies from Columbia University.He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lindsey and his sons Max and Jonah.

Kendra has more than 16 years of experience in public and institutional finance for projects of all types. A licensed attorney in Indiana and California, she most recently led the Indiana Finance Authority�as the public finance director of the state of Indiana. During her tenure at IFA, Kendra was instrumental in realizing many high-profile projects, including leading Indiana’s efforts on P3 projects such as the Ohio River Bridges East End Crossing and I-69 Section 5.�In her new role at American Structurepoint, Kendra provides overall management and direction for the Planning Group and is responsible for developing, growing, and managing services to government, institutional, and private-sector clients in all areas of conceptualizing, planning, and financing of public, not-for-profit, and private-sector projects.

�Shailen P. Bhatt was recently appointed as the Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), where he is charged with�leading the Department in planning for and addressing Colorado’s transportation needs. Shailen oversees 3,000 employees statewide and an annual budget of approximately $1.2 billion to guide CDOT in providing the best multi-modal transportation system for Colorado.� Prior to this appointment, he served as the Cabinet Secretary for the Delaware Department of Transportation. He also served as an Associate Administrator at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

Jim joined Morrison Hershfield in 2004 as Vice President of our Life Sciences practice. He leads a team responsible for anticipating our clients’ needs and expanding opportunities for our staff.Jim is a registered Architect and a graduate of McGill University School of Architecture. He has over thirty-five years of project experience across Canada and in the U.S including Public Private Partnerships and currently overseas our P3 Consultancy practice.

Eden Perry is a�� Director in the U.S. Public Finance (USPF) department for the U.S. States�� group at Standard & Poor's Rating Services in New York. Eden joined�� Standard & Poor’s from 2001-2009, covering state and local credits along�� the east coast and midwest regions. She rejoined the U.S. States group in�� April 2015. In this function, Eden is the lead analyst for the states of�� Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North�� Carolina, Ohio, Vermont, and Texas.In addition to�� rating bonds, Eden has published sector-wide reports on state pensions, debt derivatives, and debt statement analysis. In the past, Eden was a sector leader for the�� lease and federal lease, debt derivatives, and debt sector teams and�� contributed to criteria development within these sectors.Before joining�Standard & Poor’s, Eden was a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps�� in Morocco working in maternal and child healthcare.�