Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Rob joined Merrill Lynch in 1980 and is currently Lead Negotiated Underwriter in the Municipal Syndicate Group. In this capacity, he leads the pricing and the syndicate process on transactions in all sectors of the Municipal market. Prior to his current role, Rob was Co-Head of the Public Finance Group from 2001 to 2005 with responsibility for all Municipal Issuers and was manager of the Municipal Capital Markets Group from 1995 to 2001. This group was designed to bring market-oriented solutions to Merrill’s municipal general market, health care, housing and utility clients. From 1986 through 1995, Rob managed the Municipal Derivative Group where he helped to pioneer the Municipal interest rate swap market. Finally, from 1982 through 1986, Rob served as Manager of the Tax Exempt Money Market Underwriting Desk where he priced and remarketed various variable rate and fixed rate money market products. Mr. Barber holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington & Lee University.

Jodi Hecht is a director in the Utility & Infrastructure Group in Corporate & Government Ratings. As the Sector Specialist for Infrastructure, she is involved with all aspects of the Infrastructure practice, chairing rating committees, maintaining and creating criteria, assigning new credit ratings and conducting surveillance on existing ratings for infrastructure projects, including stadiums and arenas, public private partnerships, and convention center hotels. Additionally, Jodi developed criteria for public private partnerships, stadium and arena facilities and convention center hotels. Jodi is actively involved with credits in the sectors. She was the lead analyst for bids on the Puerto Rico toll road concession, Long Beach Courthouse, Port of Miami Tunnel, Indiana Toll Road and the Chicago Skyway Concession. Jodi follows entertainment credits and is the lead analyst for several stadiums and convention center hotels in the US. Prior to joining the Utilities and Infrastructure Group, Jodi was a senior analyst, working on infrastructure projects in the Local and Regional Government Group in the tax-backed, utility and transportation groups. Before joining Standard & Poor’s in 1993, Jodi was an analyst in the Treasurer’s Office for the City of Philadelphia and in commercial banking. Jodi holds a M.G.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and BA from Franklin and Marshall College.

Bryant Mitchell is Executive Vice President and leads PNC Public and Corporate Finance. In his role, Bryant directs all PNC’s origination activities, both traditional banking and capital markets, in the government, higher education and 501(c)3 space. He also manages PNC’s metals, mining and national large corporate businesses. Bryant has led PNC Public Finance since 2005. He joined PNC in 1981, serving in various capacities in the Corporate and Institutional Bank; prior to assuming his present roles, he was Credit Executive of PNC Capital Markets.Bryant earned both a BA in economics and an MBA from The Ohio State University.

Jose Vera has 14 years of public finance experience and over his investment banking career, he has negotiated numerous bond issues for public agencies in California and Nevada. Jose's public financing experience includes land-secured / development finance, utility enterprise revenue finance, general obligation bonds and lease revenue financings for cities, counties and special districts. Jose is the Vice President of the Rotary Club of Los Angeles, one of the largest community service clubs in the United States. Jose earned his degree in Economics and a Minor in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and maintains FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses. Jose serves on Stifel's internal Credit Review Committee tasked with reviewing all non-rated and below investment grade municipal bond issues prior to sale.

Tamara is a senior consultant with the Financial Risk Management group in the Chicago office of Milliman. Her prior experience includes several years at an international reinsurance company, where she worked in all areas of product development, including product design, pricing, reserving, and filing. Since joining Milliman in 2004, Tamara has led a number of high-profile variable annuity hedging and product development initiatives in continental Europe. She has specific experience in adapting the variable annuity concept for use in alternative markets, and a significant breadth of understanding of taxation and regulatory issues that affect variable annuity designs in Europe.Tamara has supported the development of a number of sophisticated derivatives-based financial risk management applications for insurance companies, including such topics as the use of quadratic programming techniques to enhance hedge performance and approaches for modeling risk-based capital reduction associated with hedging programs.Tamara is a CFA Charterholder and was recently nominated (1 of 17 worldwide) for the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association's Professional Risk Manager of the Year award. She is proficient in German and French.

Dennis is a Vice President on Moody's Higher Education/Other Not-for-Profits ratings team. He is a member of rating committee for the higher education, not-for-profit, healthcare and states rating teams and has direct analytical responsibility for a diverse portfolio of institutions, including large public university systems, complex academic medical centers and nationally prominent not-for-profit organizations throughout the United States. Dennis joined Moody’s Public Finance Group in July 2003. Dennis has authored several publications including those on donor support for higher education, tuition pricing, and liquidity as well as the rating methodology for not-for-profit cultural institutions.Dennis graduated from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University with an M.B.A. Prior to business school, he worked in Tallahassee at the Florida Governor's Mansion in a museum management role. He has also worked with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Alexandria, Virginia and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. Dennis holds a B.A. and an M.A. in History from the New College of Florida and the College of William and Mary, respectively.

Raymond DiPrinzio is a Senior Vice President and Team Leader of the Infrastructure Finance Team at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. (SMBC). Based in New York, He is responsible for originating and arranging debt financing for infrastructure projects in North America. His twenty-six years of experience include project lending, investment banking and financial advisory engagements for a wide range of public and private use facilities and has provided funding for transportation, social infrastructure, environmental, energy generation, and telecommunication facilities with a particular emphasis on public private partnerships and Federal privatization. Among other engagements, he served as financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program Office where he provided advisory services on seven TIFIA financings and successfully closed financings for the Departments of Energy, Defense, NIH and the IRS. His most recent financings include a new complex for McGill University Hospital in Montreal and the New Oakville Hospital in Ontario where SMBC acted as Mandated Lead Arranger. Most recently Raymond was Head of Project Finance at CIFG and has held senior project financing roles at Ambac, Scully Capital and Credit Suisse. Raymond holds a BA in History, with Honors, from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Columbia Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structured Finance and a Member of the Committee on Revenue and Finance of the Transportation Research Board, part of the National Academies.