Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a senior editor of National Review and the author of “The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.”

Lynn Hume has been Washington Bureau Chief for The Bond Buyer, the authority on the $3.7 trillion muni bond market, since 2007. Before that she was Regulatory Affairs Editor and a reporter for the paper, covering tax, securities and derivatives market practices, regulation, legislation and enforcement. For three years before joining The Bond Buyer, she was a staff investigator for the House Government Operations Committee�s subcommittee on energy and the environment, and dealt with such issues as U.S. oil emergency preparedness, the ban on Libyan oil products, regulation of mixed chemical and nuclear waste at federal defense facilities and federal oversight of nuclear fuels plants. Lynn was a reporter for McGraw-Hill Publications for eight years prior to moving to Capitol Hill, covering energy, environmental and other issues for several of its newsletters, magazines and Business Week.

Mr. Hartman joined RBC Capital Markets in May, 2009 as a Managing Director in the firm’s Dallas office. Prior to joining RBC, he worked in the Dallas public finance offices of Citigroup for 4 years and First Southwest Company for 8.5 years. In aggregate, Mr. Hartman has over 16 years experience in public finance. Working primarily in the Southwest region, Mr. Hartman has broad experience with many types of issuers throughout Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. He has significant transportation experience, currently serving as financial advisor to the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT), two of the largest debt issuers in the State. Mr. Hartman also has extensive experience with a broad cross section of issuers in the Southwest having served as underwriter or financial advisor to the University of Texas at Austin, the City of Dallas, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the City of Austin and the New Mexico Finance Authority. With respect to financial products, he has extensive experience with variable rate products, derivative and hedging products as well as traditional fixed rate debt. Recently, Mr. Hartman has served as financial advisor for two of the largest Build America Bonds (BABs) transactions of the year with a combined par amount over $2 billion. Mr. Hartman graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance. He holds Series 7 and Series 63 NASD licenses.