Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Rosemary Becchi advocates on behalf of companies on a broad array of regulatory and legislative issues, with an emphasis on tax and financial services matters. Using her combination of public and private sector experience, Ms. Becchi helps clients further their tax and financial services policy initiatives by providing strategic legal and business counsel, fostering critical relationships, and implementing successful long-term policy strategies.Ms. Becchi began her career in the Office of the Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service, where she developed and drafted rulings and regulations on national tax policy. She then served as tax counsel on the Majority Staff of the Senate Finance Committee where she played a key role in developing legislation at the committee, including legislation on corporate and income tax accounting issues, the R&D tax credit, methods of accounting, depreciation, education savings and charitable giving. After leaving Capitol Hill, Ms. Becchi worked at Arthur Andersen’s Office of Federal Tax Services providing tax advice to corporate clients on complex tax transactions. Following that she joined Citigroup’s Federal Government Relations Division and was responsible for representing Citigroup on its federal and state corporate tax, international, corporate governance, accounting, and auditing issues. Ms. Becchi later joined Fidelity Investments where she directed all of Fidelity’s tax legislative and regulatory issues, including issues that impacted section 529 college savings plans, retirement and health savings, deferred compensation, and defined contribution plans. During her career, Ms. Becchi also served as a member of the Board of the Investment Committee for the Virginia College Savings Plan, where the committee oversaw the selection of investments options for the plan. Before joining Patton Boggs, she was president and founder of Becchi Consulting, where she advised businesses on operational, legal, legislative and regulatory matters.Professional Affiliations: Executive Director, Capital Area Reach Program Member and Past Chair, Tax Coalition

Dominic Frederico is President and Chief Executive Officer of Assured Guaranty Ltd., a position he has held since December 2003. During his tenure, Assured Guaranty became the leading provider of municipal bond insurance and financial guarantees. Assured Guaranty completed its initial public offering in 2004 under his leadership, and, in 2009, acquired the financial guaranty insurance company now named Assured Guaranty Municipal, thereby merging the only two monoline insurers to continue writing policies before, during and after the Great Recession.Mr. Frederico has supervised the operations of Assured Guaranty since its acquisition in 1999 by ACE Limited, where he was Vice Chairman, and also served as Chairman of ACE Financial Services, ACE INA and ACE USA. He worked at ACE for nine years prior to his post at Assured Guaranty, progressing to increasingly senior positions, including: President & CEO, ACE Bermuda; Chairman, President & CEO, ACE INA Holdings; and President & Chief Operating Officer, ACE Limited. He oversaw the successful acquisition and integration of the domestic and international property casualty operations acquired by ACE from CIGNA Corporation in July 1999 and the acquisition of Capital Re Corp., the predecessor company to Assured Guaranty, in December 1999.Prior to joining ACE, Mr. Frederico spent 13 years working for various subsidiaries of the American International Group.Mr. Frederico holds an M.B.A. in Finance and a B.S. from Drexel University, as well as a Certified Public Accountant�s designation in the State of Pennsylvania. In addition to his professional responsibilities, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants.�