Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

David Szczepanski is COO of Ingenico Mobile Solutions

Christine Albano is a buy-side reporter on The Bond Buyer’s Markets beat, which she has covered for the past two decades. She has covered trends affecting retail investors, institutions, municipal mutual funds, tax-exempt money market funds, and the high-yield beat. She has also written about some of the industry’s biggest issues, such as historic defaults in Orange County, Calif., Puerto Rico, and Jefferson County, Ala., as well as the collapse of the variable-rate demand market, and the subsequent 2008 financial crisis, as well as the death of municipal bond pioneer Jim Lebenthal. She provided next day coverage of the impact on the municipal bond market of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and recently interviewed The Vanguard Group Inc. founder, former chief executive officer, and investment guru John C. Bogle about the best investing advice for the municipal market.

Mort Downey is the Chairman of the Board of PB Consult Inc. and represents our strategic consulting practice in the transportation industry as a distinguished leader and trusted advisor to major public agency clientsMr. Downey completed 8 years as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation and managed the department's highly regarded strategic planning process. He also served on the President's Management Council, as chair of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Technology, and as a member of the board of directors of Amtrak. For a prior administration he served as the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Transportation with significant responsibilities for matters in the international arena, including bilateral negotiations, multinational conferences and international trade and development missions. Mr. Downey also served as executive director and chief financial officer at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York, the nation's largest independent public transportation authority. During his 12 years at the MTA, he was involved in initiating the capital rebuilding of the MTA system, overseeing the financing for and programming of more than $20 billion of capital investment into its regional transportation facilities.