Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Jim has 30 years of experience in the public power arena specializing in the finance area. He has been employed by MEAG Power since 1997 and currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Authority. Prior to joining MEAG Power, Jim worked for the Massachusetts Municipal Electric Company in various positions of increasing responsibility in the finance and audit area.Jim is a Certified Public Accountant and received his undergraduate degree from Western New England College and holds a Master’s degree in Taxation from Bentley College. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Energy Authority and as MEAG Power’s representative on the Vogtle Project Management Board. He recently served as the Chairman of the Large Public Power Council’s Tax and Finance Committee.

Karl H. Pfeil, III is a managing director in Fitch Ratings’ public finance group. He is primarily responsible for managing the Public Power Group, but also participates in credit decisions involving other segments of the public finance and energy marketplace. Karl is also a member of Fitch’s public finance executive committee and credit policy board. At Fitch Karl’s experience also includes the analysis of investor-owned utilities and project financings. Additionally, Karl actively participates in updating existing ratings criteria and the development of new ratings guidelines. Prior to joining Fitch in 1996, Karl was an Assistant Vice President at AMBAC Indemnity Corporation, where he was responsible for the surveillance and underwriting of public power, water and sewer, airport, and tax-backed issuers for bond insurance. Karl earned a BS in finance from Rowan University (formerly Glassboro State College) and received an MPA from New York University.

Elizabeth Columbo is a partner in Nixon Peabody’s New York office. She represents governments and public authorities, issuers, and financial institutions, serving as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, or bank counsel for a variety of tax-exempt and taxable financings.� She devotes a substantial amount of her time to financings for public power, transportation, multi-family housing facilities, and sports stadiums and arenas. She also advises clients on regulatory developments and their compliance requirements and has served as disclosure and/or bond counsel for some of the largest issuers of municipal debt throughout the United States.�

Kathy has a B.A. from Boston University (1974), and a law degree from Harvard Law School (1982). After law school, she clerked one year for the Massachusetts Appeals Court, worked for a Boston firm primarily in real estate litigation, and worked as a staff attorney for the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals. Kathy moved to California in 1986 and joined the Sonoma County Counsel’s office in 1987. One of her primary assignments is advising the Sonoma County Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector. She has been an active participant in property tax and assessment litigation such as County of Sonoma v. Commission on State Mandates and more recently participated in writing an amicus brief on behalf of the California State Association of Counties in Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, Inc., v. Santa Clara County Open Space Authority.

Travis Gibbs has extensive experience as bond counsel and tax counsel in public offerings of municipal securities, including general obligation bonds, certificates of participation, school district bonds, hospital issues, variable rate financings, cash flow financings, small issue industrial development bonds, nonprofit corporation equipment financings, tax allocation bonds, refunding bonds, and rebate excepted financings. His experience includes serving as counsel in complex structured transactions with a focus on maintaining the integrity of the tax-exemption on the bonds being issued. Mr. Gibbs has represented a number of municipal electric and water utilities as bond counsel, including serving as special tax counsel in connection with bonds issued for purposes of prepaying for electricity.  He has also acted as counsel in numerous transactions which involved derivative products such as SWAPS, CAPS, and the sale of stripped call rights. A representative list of clients includes: the Southern California Public Power Authority, Douglas County PUD No. 1, WA, the County of Los Angeles, CA; the Port of Oakland; The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; the State of California; the County of Riverside, CA; as well as other counties, ports, water districts, transportation authorities, airport authorities and schools districts.In addition to tax-exempt financing, Mr. Gibbs has had experience in a variety of other tax law matters for corporation, municipal, nonprofit, and individual clients. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas, J.D. and B.A. from University of Florida His affiliations include: Member and Secretary, Board of Directors and Chair of Finance Committee of Barlow Respiratory Hospital, Los Angeles; American Bar Association; Member and Secretary, United Way of Greater Los Angeles; Section of Taxation, Tax-Exempt Committee (past Secretary); Past Member, Steering Committee for the Bond Attorneys Workshop sponsored by the National Association of Bond Lawyers; National Association of Bond Lawyers.

Johanna Gregory Partin serves as Director of Climate Protection Initiatives in the office of Mayor Gavin Newsom, where she advises Mayor Newsom on citywide sustainable energy, climate, transportation, green building and other programs promoting sustainability for San Francisco. From 2006-2009, Ms. Partin served as Renewable Energy Program Manager at the San Francisco Department of Environment, where she worked to help the City meet its renewable energy targets, focusing on the residential and commercial sectors. Ms. Partin has over 14 years' experience in the fields of renewable energy, microfinance, gender equity and sustainable development, and has worked both locally and in more than 14 countries around the world. Johanna has a Master’s degree in Energy & Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara.

Bill Andrews concentrates his practice on the commercial and financial aspects of energy, capital-intensive industrial, and infrastructure projects. During the past several years, Mr. Andrews has been responsible for leading project teams representing the CapX 2020 Utilities, E.ON U.S. LLC, Wisconsin Power and Light Company, the Indiana Municipal Power Agency, the Florida Municipal Power Agency, the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission, among others, in connection with the development, construction or financing of large scale energy generating or transmission facilities, sports venues, and other industrial facilities. In the last year, Mr. Andrews has been engaged by clients in connection with engineering, procurement and construction contracts for wind, coal and gas-fired energy generating facilities and transmission assets valued at more than $10 billion.Mr. Andrews is project counsel to the 11 load serving entities that are participants of the CapX 2020 Transmission Expansion Projects.  In that capacity, Mr. Andrews is leading the negotiation among the participants of key project agreements including the Construction Management Agreement, the Operation and Maintenance Agreement among others. The CapX projects are designed to substantially enhance the transmission grid in Minnesota and surrounding states.Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company, both investor-owned utilities located in Kentucky, engaged Mr. Andrews during 2004 to negotiate the terms of their participation with the Indiana Municipal Power Agency and the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency in connection with their joint development and ownership of the new 750 MW Trimble County 2 coal-fired electric generating facility. During 2006, Mr. Andrews successfully completed negotiating the engineering, procurement and construction contract for this new coal-fired power plant which is now nearing completion.  In the past five years, Mr. Andrews has also represented E.ON U.S. in connection with the engineering, procurement, and construction of six other power plants located in Texas, Georgia, and Kentucky as well as participation agreements with municipalities for joint ownerships of generating assets. Mr. Andrews is currently representing LG&E and Kentucky Utilities in connection with the procurement of major engineered equipment and construction of pollution of control facilities for the generating units in the LG&E and Kentucky Utilities coal fleet.In May 2007, Mr. Andrews concluded the successful negotiation of the engineering, procurement and construction contract between Trans Bay Cable, LLC, Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution, Inc. and Prysmian Construction Services, Inc. for a 55-mile HVDC sub-marine transmission cable under the San Francisco Bay capable of transmitting 400 MW between Pittsburg, CA and the City of San Francisco. Mr. Andrews currently represents the Prairie State Generating Company LLC in connection with the development of a new approximately 1600 MW, mine-mouth, pulverized coal-fired power plant now under construction in southern Illinois. During 2006, Mr. Andrews was counsel to the Indiana Municipal Power Agency, which led the team negotiating a participation agreement among six participants and Peabody Energy. Mr. Andrews was selected by the project participants to negotiate a Target Price Engineering, Procurement Agreement between the Prairie State participants and Bechtel Power Corporation for the Prairie State Energy Campus Project.  Mr. Andrews is currently engaged by Las Brisas Energy Center LLC to negotiate a fixed-price turnkey engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Bechtel Power corporation for the first phase of a 1200 MW two-unit, petroleum coke-fired energy generating facility to be constructed in Texas. Mr. Andrews has represented Green Rock Energy, LLC in connection with: the negotiation and drafting of an engineering, procurement and construction agreement for a new gasification polygeneration facility being developed by Faustina Hydrogen Products, LLC that will use pet coke and high sulfur coal as feedstocks to produce saleable anhydrous ammonia, methanol, industrial grade CO2 and sulfur.  The Project will be constructed in St. James Parish, Louisiana; and the negotiation and drafting of an engineering, procurement and construction agreement for a new gasification polygeneration facility being developed by Southeast Idaho Energy, LLC that will use coal as a feedstock to produce ammonia and urea.In April 2006, Mr. Andrews concluded the successful representation of the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission in connection with a participation agreement for and acquisition of an interest in, the Plum Point Energy Project.  The project is a 660 MW subcritical pulverized coal generating facility currently under construction in City of Osceola, Arkansas.  The Project was named Mid-West Deal of the Year by The Bond Buyer.Mr. Andrews also represents the firm’s investor-owned utilities, independent power producers and municipalities in the acquisition of power generation, air pollution control equipment, and long-term maintenance and service agreements. Mr. Andrews assists these clients in the developments of template procurement and construction documents and is often a key participant in the negotiation of these agreements.Mr. Andrews has represented clients in the structuring and financing of public infrastructure facilities, including a public/private partnership venture with the City of Anaheim, California to construct and operate the arena for professional basketball and hockey.  Mr. Andrews handled the lease negotiations with the facility’s anchor tenant, the NHL Mighty Ducks.  During 2006, Mr. Andrews was engaged in connection with the financing of the new Yankee Stadium and the New York Mets Stadium, both of which are currently under construction.Mr. Andrews has represented the governmental entities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in connection with the development, operation and maintenance of new entertainment and hospitality facilities, including the Coliséo de Puerto Rico in San Juan and the Puerto Rico Convention Center in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.  He also represented a public benefit corporation which was the first New York State entity actively seeking to create a public/private partnership with private independent energy developers and has been a consultant to the State of Florida regarding privatization of the state’s correctional facilities.Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Andrews served as Legislative Assistant and Administrative Assistant to U.S. Representative James M. Collins (Texas). He frequently is invited to make presentations to governmental entities and at conferences on the subjects of the EPC contracting, energy project development.Admissions Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York and Florida.Education University of Virginia, J.D. University of Pennsylvania, A.M. Lafayette College, A.B.

Will Toor was elected to the Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County in 2004, and was re-elected to serve a second term in 2008. Will is a recognized community leader for his work and dedication to sustainability and to developing a modern, efficient regional transportation system for Boulder County and the Denver metro area.

David Gillespie has more than 28 years of experience in representing a wide variety of clients on matters including: infrastructure and equipment finance, capital markets, energy, general tax, mergers and acquisitions and public finance. A partner in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s New York location, David leads the tax divisions of the firm's Global Infrastructure, Equipment Finance and Public Private Partnerships practice groups. David has extensive experience advising equity investors, public authorities, asset operators, lenders and manufacturers in the tax structuring and implementation of sophisticated domestic and cross-border financing transactions. He also has developed and implemented a wide variety of domestic and cross-border tax-advantaged financing techniques.