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Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.

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  • Gregg has delivered tax opinions as bond counsel or special tax counsel in connection with financings for states, cities, counties, school districts and other political subdivisions. He has participated in all facets of the tax analysis associated with the issuance of qualified 501(c)(3) bonds, qualified hospital bonds, qualified student loan bonds and qualified small issue bonds. Gregg also has extensive experience in IRS audits of tax-exempt bonds, representing issuers and other interested parties.Gregg haw been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America, Public Finance and Tax; named a Texas Super Lawyer in Tax by Texas Monthly and as a Fellow with the American College of Bond Counsel.He is affiliated with the Bond Attorneys' Workshop (Steering Committee), the State Bar of Texas - Taxation Section (Tax-Exempt Bond Committee, Former Chair), the American Bar Association - Taxation Section (Tax-Exempt Finance Committee) and the National Association of Bond Lawyers, Tax and Securities Seminar (Former Faculty Member).Gregg is a graduate of Duke University with an JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

  • Ms Norma Ortega is the Interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the California Department of Transportation with a budget exceeding $12 billion and staffing of over 22,000 employees. The CFO is responsible for the Department’s financial management and policy as well as federal and state programming of transportation projects. Ms. Ortega has been with the Department over twenty –five years and has served on a number of fiscal management positions including direct management of the Department’s budget. She represents the Department on federal, state and local funding and financing issues before the State’s transportation fund allocation organization, the California Transportation Commission and the California State Legislature. Other assignments include serving as a fiscal advisor during the development of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Strategic Growth Plan, which lead to a $19.94 billion transportation bond proposal. She also served on the California Performance Review Performance Budgeting and Review Enhancement team.

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    Anne Rabin joined JPA in 2008, bringing over 25 years of experience in executing infrastructure transactions with a particular focus in transportation in North and South America. At JPA, Ms. Rabin’s is drawing on her financial market expertise to lead project advisory teams in the execution of complex public and private transactions. She led the transaction advisory work for the I-595 toll road project which closed in March of this year and has similar responsibilities for the Port of Miami Project scheduled to close at the end of this month. She is also JPA’s lead on the advising the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the procurement of the Staten Island Bridges.Recently, Anne was involved with study conducted by Jeffrey Parker & Associates for APTA surveying transit agencies, large and small, across the country on the impact of the financial crisis to their operations and capital plans.

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    Duane Callender manages the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) credit program. He directs a staff responsible for all aspects of project evaluations, negotiations and portfolio monitoring. Mr. Callender oversees a portfolio that encompasses over $22 billion in Federal credit assistance to 53 intermodal, highway and transit projects totaling more than $79 billion of infrastructure investment in the U.S. Immediately before joining the TIFIA program, he held positions in DOT�s Office of Budget and Programs; �where he was responsible for oversight of the Maritime Administration budget; in DOT�s Inspector General�s Office and the Budget Office of the District of Columbia�s Metropolitan Police Department.A New York native, Mr. Callender holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from ConnecticutCollege (1994) and a Master�s Degree in Public Administration from AmericanUniversity (1998).

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    Susan Warner-Dooley, A.A.E., I.A.P, is National Director of Aviation Strategic, Business and Financial Planning for HNTB Corporation. Warner-Dooley works with airports nationwide in the areas of strategic assessment and planning, financial policy and analysis, and capital program funding, as well as airline relations and rates structures, and commercial operations and development. Susan has more than 20 years of airport related experience and has served as a senior airport executive for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department and the Columbus Airports Authority, directing airport strategic and business planning, accounting and capital finance, airlines affairs, properties and commercial management and general administration while interfacing with all functional areas of airport operations and capital development in roles as airport general counsel and airport CFO. She has also served as an airport financial consultant preparing capital funding plans and financial feasibility studies for large, medium and small hub airports. Prior to entering the airport industry, she was an attorney specializing in financings, construction contracting and complex transactions for private and public sector clients. Warner-Dooley is an Accredited Airport Executive by the American Association of Airport Executives and an accredited International Airport Professional by the ACI-ICAO Airport Management Professional Program. Susan participates in several professional organizations including Airports Council International-NA, American Association of Airport Executives, Transportation Research Board and the International Aviation Women’s Association. Susan earned a Juris Doctorate and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in social sciences from The Ohio State University.

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    Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst is a native Texan, proud veteran, successful businessman, and rancher. He serves as President of the Texas Senate and is proud of the broad support he has earned during his tenure.Through three Regular Sessions and seven Special Sessions of the Legislature, Lt. Governor Dewhurst has worked to bring together Republicans and Democrats to pass legislation to create new jobs and economic opportunity, improve schools, and protect public safety. In 2007, Dewhurst led the effort to pass one of the toughest Jessica's Laws in the nation. The law, part of Dewhurst's Texas Children First initiative, imposes tough, new penalties against child predators, including life in prison without the possibility of parole.A fiscal conservative, Dewhurst has worked to balance three budgets without increasing the tax burden on Texans. These conservative budgets have helped the state's economy grow faster than the national economy and create more than one million new jobs in Texas over the last five years.Lt. Governor Dewhurst believes every child in Texas deserves a quality education. In 2006, as Dewhurst led the Senate to approve $14 billion in local school property tax cuts, he fought successfully to raise teacher salaries and educational standards, increase accountability, and reduce drop-out rates. To make university study affordable, Dewhurst worked to pass the "B-on-Time Loan Program," which provides college students with zero-interest, forgivable loans if they graduate on time with at least a "B" average.The Dallas Morning News called Dewhurst's first term leading the Senate "a demonstration of steadiness, resolve and consensus building." The Houston Chronicle has called Dewhurst "an exceptional leader."As Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, where he served from 1999-2002, Dewhurst reduced the workforce and budget, and turned back money each of two biennia to Texas' taxpayers. He certified almost $1 billion in below-market interest rate loans to veterans to honor their service and to stimulate the Texas economy, and helped protect the environment and increase tourism by restoring Texas' beaches and bays.In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Dewhurst was appointed by Governor Rick Perry as Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Homeland Security.Dewhurst began his business career in the mid-1970s after serving as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. State Department. He founded Falcon Seaboard, a Texas-based diversified energy and investments company. An early developer in the mid-1980s in the electric cogeneration business, he has earned a reputation as an innovative and successful businessman.Dewhurst has been a long time community and civic leader in his hometown of Houston, where he has served on civic and charitable boards. Dewhurst, who speaks Spanish, earned his BA degree from the University of Arizona, where he played college basketball. He breeds and raises registered Black Angus cattle, and he rides cutting horses in National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) and American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) competitions. Dewhurst is honorary Vice President of the AQHA.

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    Andrew Weber was named by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott as the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas. Immediately prior to this appointment, Weber served as Deputy Attorney General for Legal Counsel, a position in which he served since 2007.Weber began his legal career in 1996 as a briefing attorney for then-Justice Greg Abbott on the Texas Supreme Court. Weber subsequently practiced law with the Dallas firm of Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, before joining the Texas Supreme Court again in 1999 as staff attorney to then-Justice Priscilla Owen.In 2002, Weber was appointed Clerk of the Texas Supreme Court, where he served for four years before joining the Dallas law firm of Kelly Hart & Hallman to oversee the firm’s Austin appellate section. Weber received his law degree from Baylor Law School, where he served on the Law Review.

  • Mr. Estrada, an attorney at law, is Chairman of the Board of Estrada Hinojosa & Company, Inc., an investment banking firm he co-founded in 1992 with Noe Hinojosa, Jr., and also serves as the Chief Compliance Officer and a Managing Director. In addition to its Dallas, Texas headquarters, Estrada Hinojosa has offices in Austin, Chicago, Houston, Miami, San Antonio, and San Diego. From 1997-2000, Bob served on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (“MSRB”) and was Chairman in 2000. He is a past Chairman of the Municipal Advisory Council of Texas (the “MAC”). He has also served on the National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”) Fixed Income Committee. Mr. Estrada currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Estrada served on the Board of Directors for the Student Loan Marketing Association ("Sallie Mae") in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the Board's Executive Committee. He continues to serve on the boards of numerous other business, cultural arts and civic organizations. Mr. Estrada received his Bachelor of Science degree and his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and served on the University of Texas System Board of Regents from 2001 until 2008, where he chaired the Board’s Audit Committee. He and his wife, Catherine, have six children and make their home in Fort Worth, TX.