Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Geoff is a Managing Director and Senior Sector Leader for Standard & Poor’s U.S. Public Finance (USPF) and Global Infrastructure groups, focusing on Infrastructure, Public Private Partnerships and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings.�� Since joining S&P in 2000, Geoff has served as an analyst, a muni pool and a pension sector lead, a regional office head, and a Lead Analytical Manager for the Transportation, Public Power, Water-Sewer Utility, and Housing teams. Prior to joining S&P, Geoff served as the CFO, for the City of Gloucester, Mass. and Administrative Officer for the City of North Adams, Mass.

Joyce A. Parker is an ICMA credentialed manager and has worked in city management in Michigan and Illinois.  She has worked as a City Manager, Assistant City Manager or Township Manager for Jackson, Saginaw, Inkster and Buena Vista Charter Township in Michigan.  She has also served as a City Manager for Elgin, Illinois. In this capacity, Ms. Parker developed and managed budgets up to $250 million and organizations up to 800 employees.  Under her leadership, and with the cooperation of City government and the community, these cities have experienced rapid growth and development. Ms. Parker has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Kent State University and a Master Degree of Public Administration from the University of Michigan.She is a member of such clubs and organizations as the Business Professional Women’s Club, Michigan Local Government Management Association, and the International City County Management Association.  Joyce Parker is also the recipient of several awards including the Susan B. Anthony Award for YMCA and the Spirit of Saginaw Award from the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce.

Honorable Michael A. Nutter, the 98th mayor of Philadelphia, has set a course for America's sixth largest city aimed at growing the regional economy in a sustainable manner, dramatically improving public safety and investing in education and workforce development.With a pledge to make Philadelphia the greenest city in America, Mayor Nutter has launched an aggressive strategy, Greenworks Philadelphia that will reduce the city's carbon footprint and train Philadelphians for new green collar jobs, from weatherization to solar panel installation.Long committed to careful planning of development, Mayor Nutter has reoriented city government, giving primacy to planning as the city prepares for future development along the Delaware River, the Navy Yard and Philadelphia International Airport. He has reorganized the city's Commerce Department to improve its assistance to small businesses and to foster minority-and women-owned business.Within city government, Mayor Nutter has begun a reform drive that includes the creation of a 311 Call Center to serve better the service needs of city residents. And his administration has set bright line standards for ethical conduct, increased funding for the city's Inspector General's office and established the city's first ever Chief Integrity Officer.In response to the deepest recession in generations, Mayor Nutter launched a nationally recognized mortgage foreclosure program that links at-risk homeowners with housing counseling and related services.An academic scholarship recipient, he graduated from St. Joseph's Preparatory High School. In 1979, he graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.Before pursuing his career in public service, Mayor Nutter was an investment manager at a minority-owned investment banking and brokerage firm.After working in the gubernatorial campaign of Ed Rendell and the campaigns for City Council members John Anderson and Angel Ortiz, Michael Nutter won elections as a committee person in the 52nd ward in 1986, 52nd Democratic Ward Leader in 1990 and, in his second attempt, for City Council in 1991.In a legislative career spanning almost 15 years, Mayor Nutter has authored successful reform legislation in the area of ethics and campaign finance, civilian review of the Police Department, tax reform and a smoking ban in public places.

James McIntire was elected as Washington's 22nd State Treasurer in 2008. Prior to this election, he was a successful business economist for Navigant Consulting Inc. McIntire earned his PhD in economics at the University of Washington, where he founded and directed a fiscal policy center and taught economics for 25 years. He began his political career working in the U.S. Senate for Hubert Humphrey, and served as a policy advisor to congressional committee chairmen and Washington governors. He has chaired statewide boards for economic development and nonprofit housing. As a five-term State Representative, McIntire provided leadership on several financial committees. He sponsored the first state law making identity theft a crime, a constitutionally protected, "Rainy Day Account," performance audits, priorities of government budgeting, and the new Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences. During a budget shortfall, McIntire helped to re-enact the estate tax and raise cigarette taxes to pay for schools and children's health care. As State Treasurer, McIntire has focused his attention on the safety and security of public funds, the integration of sound financial management throughout state government, and the need for long-term financial planning to meet the education and transportation needs of Washington's economy.

Mark Price is currently a founder and manager of Trident Municipal Research as well as a principal of Alprion Capital Management LP, a municipal bond investment firm. Mr. Price has over a decade of public finance experience in various roles. Prior to Trident Municipal Research and Alprion Capital Management, he was a Vice President at Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., responsible for day-to-day banking coverage and providing financial product expertise for municipal clients. Prior to Siebert, Mr. Price structured and marketed municipal derivative products, leading the execution of over $3 billion of notional amount for issuers of municipal bonds at UBS. He also served as Debt Manager of the city of Atlanta, overseeing the issuance of transactions ranging from general obligation, water and sewer, airport, and development authority credits. Mr. Price received his undergraduate degree and MBA from Harvard University.

Victor A. Sahn is a Member of SulmeyerKupetz. SulmeyerKupetz is located in Los Angeles,California, and specializes in all aspects of the Bankruptcy Practice as well as business andcommercial litigation in all Federal and State Courts. Mr. Sahn has been employed atSulmeyerKupetz since 1981 and has been a partner at the firm since 1987. He hasrepresented hundreds of Chapter 11 Debtors, dozens of Creditors Committees, as well assecured creditors, Equity Committees and individual unsecured creditors in Bankruptcy Cases.He has frequently worked with asset purchasers in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 cases as well asPlan Proponents in Chapter 11 Cases.Mr. Sahn has been involved in some of the most significant regional and national casesincluding the County of Orange Chapter 9 proceeding, MCI/Worldcom, Inc., WilliamsCommunications, Adelphia Communications, KMart Corporation, Capitol Metals, Inc., BaldwinBuilders, Inc., Country Home Bakers, Inc., Adesta Communications, Inc., Friedman BagCompany, Inc., Wareforce Communications, Inc., Hoffman Brothers Foods and Beverly HillsDevelopment Corporation and related entities.Mr. Sahn is a 1976 graduate of Syracuse University and a 1979 graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law. While at the University of San Diego, Mr. Sahn served as an extern to the Honorable Herbert Katz, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of California. Following law school graduation, Mr. Sahn was law clerk to the Honorable Peter M. Elliott, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California, Santa Ana Division. Mr. Sahn is admitted to practice in the State of California and before the United States District Courts for the Central and Southern Districts of California as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Sahn frequently lectures on Bankruptcy topics before local and regional groups.

Torsten Slok joined Deutsche Bank Securities in the fall of 2005 and is a senior member of the Global Economics Team. Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Slok worked at the OECD in Paris in the Money and Finance Division and the Structural Policy Analysis Division. Before joining the OECD he worked for four years at the IMF in the Division responsible for writing the World Economic Outlook and the Division responsible for China, Hong Kong and Mongolia. Dr. Slok studied at Princeton University and University of Copenhagen. He has published numerous journal articles and reviews on economics and policy analysis.

Grant Holland, the director of WSA’s public-private initiatives practice, began his career in 1982 as chief assistant to the chairman of the Arizona Corporate Commission, the state’s public utility commission. In this role he worked with policy makers, lawyers, bankers, and other decision makers, and this experience in dealing with high-level people in government and private industry provided the background he needed to begin working with public-private partnerships. Since then he has held executive and management positions in the infrastructure and development industries. He worked for InterWest Company, which in the mid-1990s managed the development of toll road projects including several in Minnesota, Washington, California, Arizona, and South Carolina in which Wilbur Smith Associates participated. He was recruited to join WSA in 2001 as a senior project manager with the toll finance and technology group, and he initially specialized in privatization work. He has focused primarily on large public-private partnerships for transportation, and has also participated in P3 and privatization efforts for parking and water/wastewater ventures. He has been involved in projects with a combined value of more than $30 billion. Grant identified public-private initiatives as an emerging niche market and positioned WSA to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. He developed and now leads WSA’s alternative delivery systems practice, providing advisory services on P3 procurement and development to state and other public agencies and overseeing work for private P3 clients. He has been successful in helping a number of state departments of transportation to focus on public-private partnerships and approach them in a more thoughtful manner, and he is one of only a handful of professionals who has worked with a nation to develop P3 and public toll authority processes. He led a team in developing a network of 5,800 kilometers of toll roads for the Republic of India connecting the major metropolitan areas of Delhi, Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta.