Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
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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Scott Shapiro is a senior advisor to Mayor Jim Gray of Lexington, Ky. Scott manages projects that include revitalizing the citys downtown through the potential conversion of one-way streets to two-way traffic and building a joint Lexington-Louisville economic-development initiative with the Brookings Institution. Most recently he led an effort that successfully transformed Lexingtons troubled police and fire pension system.Scott comes to the Mayors office having just earned a masters in public administration degree from Harvards Kennedy School of Government, where he went, at age 40, to pursue a new career in public service. Prior to that switch Scott was largely in the private sector in New York City, where he built and sold a consulting company and was a senior executive with a publicly traded health care company.
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In 2008, DeMaine was elected as the 2nd Ward Councilman for the City of Youngstown. After serving his first term, he was elected to serve a second term on council. However, when the new Mayor took office, he asked DeMaine to resign from his council seat to serve as Chief of Staff for the city.After accepting the position on August 8, 2011, DeMaine has assumed several key responsibilities. He has been placed in charge of streamlining the citys demolition process, as well as developing a comprehensive strategy to address violent crime in the city. One of the more significant roles he has assumed is the implementation and oversight of the Strong Cities, Strong Communities Initiatives engagement in the City of Youngstown. DeMaine is a lifelong resident of the City of Youngstown. He has been married for 11 years and has three daughters. He is a graduate of The Walsh University in Canton, OH and holds a Bachelors Degree in Business Management.
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Steven J. Murphy joined the Kentucky Communications Network Authority in 2015 to assume the role of Chief Financial Officer.Steve relocated to Lexington, Kentucky after retiring following a 34 year career with Standard and Poor’s, to be near two of his three daughters who attended the University of Kentucky.�At the time of his retirement, Steven was a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Standard and Poor’s U.S. Public Finance Department.In that role, he led the department responsible for rating over 19,000 publicly rated entities, including:� U.S. States and Local Governments, Public and Private Higher Education, Not for Profit Health Care, Tax Exempt Housing, Municipal Utilities, Municipal Structured, Public Power, Airports, Ports and Toll Roads and Infrastructure.Previously, Steven was the head of the State and Local Government Ratings Group. Before that, he led the department’s Municipal Enterprise Ratings Group. He has significant experience analyzing many types of debt structures. .Steven is a member of several state Government Finance Officers’ Associations, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, the Society of Municipal Analysts, the Municipal Forum of New York and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.Steven has a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from St. John’s University and completed graduate studies at the University of Virginia.�
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Stephanie A. Miner is the 53rd Mayor of the City of Syracuse. Born on April 30, 1970, she became involved in politics at an early age, stuffing envelopes for local candidates at her Grandmother Cooneys kitchen table in the Eastwood neighborhood. Mayor Miner was elected on November 3, 2009 in a three-way race, receiving 50.1% of the vote. She became the first woman elected Mayor of any of the Big 5 cities in New York State.She attended Syracuse University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism in 1992. After college, she worked as the Assistant Upstate Coordinator for the Geraldine Ferraro for U.S. Senate campaign and then served as Central New York Regional Representative for Governor Mario Cuomo. In 1999, Miner earned her J.D. from SUNY Buffalo and began working at Blitman & King, LLP as a labor lawyer, representing unions and employees.Mayor Miner became a Syracuse Common Councilor-at-Large after winning city-wide election in 2001 when she was 31 years old. Re-elected to the Council in 2005, Mayor Miner received the most votes of any candidate on the ballot, including the incumbent Mayor. As a Common Councilor, she championed and helped pass legislation that gave $1 million in initial funding to Say Yes to Education, a program that provides necessary support services for Syracuse City School District students and promises free or reduced college tuition to students who graduate from City high schools.Even prior to taking office, Mayor Miner saw the precarious financial situation the City of Syracuse held. With this understanding, Mayor Miner began the difficult task of right-sizing City government and consolidating various services. Through inter-municipal agreements, the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County consolidated their purchasing departments into a single entity. Mayor Miner has taken a leading role in the discussion of municipal finance across New York State, working with a coalition of large city mayors to develop strategies and solutions for coping with financial pressures. She established by executive order the Syracuse Municipal Financial Advisory Board to develop a plan for addressing the fiscal concerns of the city. Mayor Miner has made sustainability a top priority. She understands the great potential Syracuse has as a leader in the global green movement, bringing together the resources of government, higher education, and the living classroom our environment has to offer. One of her first acts as Mayor was the establishment of the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. This is the first time in decades that City government has had an office focused on urban planning, while also integrating the principles of environmental, social and economic sustainability. The new department has already seen success, including the advancement of the Onondaga Creekwalk, the Syracuse Connective Corridor and the drafting of a revised Comprehensive Plan for the City of Syracuse. Utilizing the newly passed state Land Bank legislation, the city authorized the creation of the Greater Syracuse Property Development Corporation to expedite the sale and redevelopment of vacant and tax delinquent properties. The City of Syracuse has seen record economic development since Mayor Miner has taken office. In her three years as Mayor, the Construction Permit Values have skyrocketed, with a total figure of nearly $330 million in 2012. Additionally, Mayor Miner co-located the economic development office with the county economic development staff. Additionally, to better work with local businesses, Mayor Miner spearheaded the effort to develop the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority to create greater efficiency at the Hancock International Airport, attracting new airlines and working with local businesses to make the airport a successful tool for the local economy. Mayor Miner has also redeveloped the Joint Schools Construction Board which overseeing a multi-million dollar effort to rebuild and remodel all Syracuse City School buildings.
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John J. Cross III is the Director of the Office of Municipal Securities at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.� Mr. Cross joined the SEC in September 2012 as the first Director of the Office of Municipal Securities, which was established under the Dodd-Frank Act as a separate office, with a requirement that its Director report directly to the SEC Chairman, to administer SEC rules for the municipal securities market and to oversee rulemaking by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, an independent self-regulatory organization.� Mr. Cross provided overall supervision to an SEC working group comprised of staff from the Trading and Markets Division and the Office of Municipal Securities on the SEC�s final municipal advisor registration rulemaking project under the Dodd-Frank Act, which the Commission adopted in September 2013.� Mr. Cross has a broad range of national municipal finance experience and has been a leader on public policy issues affecting municipal finance.Previously, from 2006-2012, Mr. Cross served as Associate Tax Legislative Counsel in the Office of Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he had significant responsibility for legislative and regulatory tax matters affecting municipal bonds, including responsibilities with respect to the agency�s implementation of the 2009 legislative stimulus incentives and regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis in this area.� From 1994-2006, Mr. Cross was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP, a national public finance specialty law firm. From 1990-1993, Mr. Cross served in the Financial Products group of the IRS Chief Counsel�s office, where he was one of the principal authors of the arbitrage regulations on investment restrictions on tax-exempt bonds.� From 1981-1990, Mr. Cross was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia.Mr. Cross has a B.A. Degree from Brown University (1978), a J.D. Degree from Vanderbilt University Law School (1981), where he was a member of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and an L.L.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center (1988).��
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Kevin Holloran, Director in Corporate & Government Ratings, joined Standard & Poors Rating Services in 2003. Kevin is the analytical manager of the central region, and responsible for managing ratings in the not-for-profit health care sector, private higher education sector and charter school sector. Kevin follows a portfolio of high-profile acute care health care credits around the country. Before joining Standard & Poors in 2003, he worked for 7 years in consulting at Ernst & Young, LLP and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, focusing on post merger integration projects within the health care space. Kevin holds masters of health services administration from the University of Michigan and a bachelors degree in business from the University of Notre Dame.
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Rudolph Giuliani, a name partner in the firm since 2005, has played a key role in the efforts of the New York office to expand and enhance the firmfs corporate, broker/dealer, bankruptcyand white]collar criminal defense client service teams. In addition to his decades of governmentand public service, where he gained extensive trial, appellate, public policy and regulatoryexperience, Mr. Giuliani honed his many skills and talents in the private sector, as both amember of prestigious New York law firms and as head of Giuliani Partners, a consulting firm. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Giuliani began his career as a law clerk to United StatesDistrict Court Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon in the Southern District of New York. In 1970, he joinedthe office of the U.S. Attorney and was soon named Chief of the Narcotics Unit and promotedto the position of Executive U.S. Attorney. In 1973, at age 29, Mr. Giuliani was placed in charge of the police corruption cases resulting from the highly publicized Knapp Commission report.Two years later, Mr. Giuliani was recruited to Washington, D.C., where he was appointedAssociate Deputy Attorney General and chief of staff to the Deputy Attorney General. In 1977,Mr. Giuliani returned to New York to practice law and joined the firm of Patterson, Belknap,Webb and Tyler.In 1981, President Reagan appointed Mr. Giuliani to be U.S. Associate Attorney General, theDepartment of Justicefs third highest position. In this role, Mr. Giuliani supervised the U.S.Attorney offices nationwide, as well as federal law enforcement agencies, including the Bureauof Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the U.S. Marshals Service. In 1983, hebecame U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he earned a nationalreputation for his efforts to eradicate organized and white]collar crime and governmentcorruption. During his high]profile prosecutorial career, Mr. Giuliani secured 4,152 convictions,with only 25 reversals.Following his tenure as a U.S. Attorney, Mr. Giuliani returned to private practice as a partner at White & Case and later as a partner at Anderson, Kill & Olick.








