Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Blake Anderson is a Managing Director of Mesirow Financial�s Institutional Sales and Trading Group. Based in the firm�s San Francisco office, Blake focuses on High Yield �tax exempt and taxable bond research. Blake has more than twenty years of investment experience.Prior to joining Mesirow Financial, Blake was a Partner at Social Sphere Strategies, Managing Partner at Anderson Tuttle Properties and a Managing Director at Putnam Investments. At Putnam, Blake was Director of the High Yield Team, Senior Portfolio Manager and Director of Tax Exempt Research while serving on the Executive, Risk Management and New Product Committees. Prior to Putnam, Blake was a Consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, Actuarial & Benefits Consulting Group. Prior to Coopers, Blake was a Senior Underwriter at Cigna Corp.Blake earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Diane Cummins currently serves as Special Advisor to the Governor on state-local realignment issues. Prior to her retirement in December 2008, she was the Chief Fiscal Policy Advisor to the President pro tem of the State Senate, a position she held since January, 1999.Previously, she was the Chief Deputy Director for Budgets in the Department of Finance. As part of her 21-year career in the Department of Finance, she held numerous positions and specialized in local government and health and human services issues. She was the key Department of Finance staff person on the 1991 Realignment, the 1997 assumption of state trial court funding and the 1997 welfare reform effort that resulted in the CalWORKs program.

Mr. Glass is the Chief Financial Officer of the Cleveland Clinic. He joined the Cleveland Clinic in April 2002 as the Controller and Chief Accounting Officer and served in that role until June 2005, when he assumed his current role. Mr. Glass is responsible for the financial management of the Cleveland Clinic Health System which includes ten hospitals in Ohio, one hospital in Florida, outpatient operations in Las Vegas and Toronto, and a 2,700 physician practice group operating across those markets.Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic, Mr. Glass spent fourteen years with MedStar Health, a community hospital health system serving the Mid-Atlantic Region. Mr. Glass spent fourteen years with MedStar Health serving in various roles during its growth through mergers and acquisitions during the mid-nineties. Mr. Glass received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Towson University and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Accountants, Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants, Healthcare Financial Management Association and the Health Management Academy.

David L. Cohen is a Managing Director and Associate General Counsel for the Securities Industry Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Municipal Division where he focuses on municipal securities policy, legal, regulatory, market practice, and other related issues. Prior to joining SIFMA, Cohen was Managing Counsel for Ethics and Compliance at Cablevision Systems Corp. Before joining Cablevision, Mr. Cohen held several positions at UBS including Executive Director and Regulatory Compliance Business Manager for UBS’ Municipal Securities Group and Associate General Counsel for UBS Wealth Management.Mr. Cohen holds a B.A. in Political Science from Union College and a J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Labor Law Journal.

Sally has over 18 years of banking experience, predominately in public finance in the higher education sector. She currently serves as the head of Wells Fargo Securities higher education team and previously as co-head of the Morgan Stanley higher education group. Sally has served as a senior banker on over $25 billion of tax-exempt and taxable debt issuance for public and private institutions nationwide and internationally. Sally’s prominent senior managed public university clients include the University of Texas System, the University of California, the California State University System, the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, Miami University of Ohio, Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia. Her private university and college higher education experience includes senior managed bond issues for Stanford University, Washington University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Carleton College, Pepperdine University, California Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola Marymount University, Santa Clara University, Lebanese American University and Swarthmore College among others. Sally’s not-for-profit experience includes bond issues for the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others. In the late 1990s, Sally relocated to Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, she served as a senior member of the Morgan Stanley Taxable Debt Capital Markets team and for one year as the Chief Operating Officer for the Fixed Income Division in Asia. Sally rejoined the Public Finance department and the Morgan Stanley higher education group in June 2003. Since then, she has focused solely on higher education and 501(c)3 debt issuers. Sally joined Wells Fargo as the head of the higher education team in August 2012.

Bradley C. Bond has been Vice President of Treasury for the System since July 2002 in addition to recently being appointed to Vice President of Finance for all Community Medical Centers and Ambulatory Surgery Centers. In his treasury role, Mr. Bond’s primary responsibilities include overall management of short and long-term investments, debt and swap transactions, cash management, leasing contracts, pension and risk management, and tax compliance and research. He has played a significant role in over $1.3 billion in bond issuance transactions, over $800 million notional swap transactions and negotiated $230 million in short-term lines of credit during his tenure at the System. Mr. Bond currently oversees the investment program with over $1.1 billion in assets under management, including the defined benefit pension investments. He also plays a significant role in operational finance at the six community medical centers, strategic planning, financial reporting, fund development, equipment leasing and community benefit reporting. Prior to joining the System, Mr. Bond served as Assistant Treasurer at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation since December 1997 and Senior Treasury Analyst from November 1994 to December 1997. Previously Mr. Bond was associated with General Electric Capital Corporation, where he served as a Financial Specialist from 1992 to 1994. Mr. Bond began his career as a staff accountant and consultant with Ernst & Young. Mr. Bond received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Weatherhead School of Management - Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Bond is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-non practicing). Mr. Bond maintains many professional and community affiliations and is Finance Committee Chair for the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland.