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Matthew is a vice president in Assured Guaranty’s Healthcare and Higher Education underwriting group. He is responsible for analyzing healthcare, higher education, and other not-for-profit organizations. He joined Assured in 2008 and has worked on multitude of municipal sectors. Prior to working at Assured Guaranty he worked for the bond insurance firm XL Capital Assurance. Matthew has a B.A. in economics from Hobart College and a MBA from Fordham University. He is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

Ken is a consulting actuary with the New York office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 1996. Ken has more than 30 years of pension and employee benefit consulting experience and provides advice in the design and implementation of comprehensive pension and welfare plans to both domestic and international companies; not-for-profit organizations; governmental employers; and multiemployer, union pension funds. Services to his clients include defined benefit plan funding and expense valuations, retiree medical expense valuations, experience studies, modeling of projected plan liabilities and costs, assisting bargaining parties during collective bargaining negotiations, plan terminations and mergers. He is a member of Milliman's Multiemployer Plan Strategic Planning Group. Ken is an expert in the areas of accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits, early retirement windows, and ERISA compliance and has been a speaker at professional and industry meetings.

In 1999, John Horsley became Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), which advocates policies and provides technology leadership on behalf of States to improve the Nation’s transportation system. Previously, Horsley was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation where he served from 1993 to 1999 as the Department’s advocate for intermodal policies, quality of life initiatives and as liaison to State and Local Governments, US Congress, and transportation constituencies. A native of the Northwest, Horsley was elected to five terms as County Commissioner in Kitsap County, a community just west of Seattle. He is a graduate of Harvard, an Army veteran, a former Peace Corps volunteer and Congressional aide, and did graduate study at Georgetown. He is Past President of the National Association of Counties, and was founding Chairman of the Rebuild America Coalition.

Eric Kim is a director in Fitch Ratings higher education and non-profit institutions group. Eric joined Fitch in March 2007, and he works on credit analysis for new bond offerings, as well as surveillance of existing ratings in a variety of sectors including higher education & non-profits, tax-backed, water and sewer, healthcare, and public power. Eric was previously chief of staff for the first deputy commissioner at the New York City (NYC) Taxi and Limousine Commission for two and a half years. He also worked as a project manager at the Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner’s Office in the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT). Eric began his career as a NYC Urban Fellow, providing research and analytical support in the commissioner’s office at the DOT. Eric earned a BA from Brown University and an MPA with a public finance specialization from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.

Mike Newman is a Senior Vice President with FirstSouthwest Company. He joined FirstSouthwest in 2004 and has been in the securities industry since 1990. Mike’s areas of focus are transportation and healthcare finance, project finance, and variable rate indebtedness including all types of bank supported indebtedness. He has worked with transportation organizations including, but not limited to, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, Regional Transportation District of Denver, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, and Trustees for Tulsa Airports Improvement Trust.Mike previously served as a first vice president at George K. Baum & Company, where he was responsible for the provision of investment banking services to public sector and not-for-profit clients. Prior to working at George K. Baum & Company he served as a vice president in the public finance departments of Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen Girozentrale and National Westminster Bank Plc. where his principal responsibilities involved providing credit enhancement and liquidity support to a variety of tax-exempt and taxable indebtedness issued by public sector entities and not-for-profit institutions. ,br> Mike earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University, Master of Business Administration in Finance from State University of New York at Albany, and has completed studies in Industrial Relations at The London School of Economics in London.

Steve H. Murdock is the Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology at Rice University. He previously served as Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census having been nominated for the position by President Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2007 and serving until the change in administration in January of 2009.Prior to his appointment at Rice, he was the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Demography and Organization Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and the Director of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research. Before UTSA, Murdock was a Regents Professor and Head of the Department of Rural Sociology at Texas A&M University. He was also the official State Demographer of Texas. He was appointed to this position by Governor Rick Perry and was the first person to occupy this position. Dr. Murdock earned his Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Kentucky and is the author or editor of 13 books and more than 150 articles and technical reports on the implications of current and future demographic and socioeconomic change. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. These include the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M University, the Excellence in Research Award and the Outstanding Rural Sociologist Award from the Rural Sociological Society, The Distinguished Alumni Award from North Dakota State University and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky. He was named one of the fifty most influential Texans by Texas Business in 1997 and as one of the twenty-five most influential persons in Texas by Texas Monthly in 2005. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and Phi Eta Epsilon national honor societies.

Eric Isban joined SMBC in 2011 as a Vice President in their Public and Infrastructure Finance Group, based in New York. In this capacity, Eric is a senior banker responsible for originating credit, liquidity and other products to support municipal issuers on a national scale. Prior to joining SMBC, Eric co-headed the Public Finance Group for Lloyds Banking Group. During his 6 year tenor at Lloyds, Eric was in charge of the Bank�s Municipal Finance business (in the US) with responsibility of setting the strategy and overall management of a $9.0 billion municipal portfolio. Prior to Lloyds, Eric has worked for a variety of bank institutions including TD Securities, HSH Nordbank AG, and National Australia Bank. Eric has over 14+ years of experience in the Municipal Finance arena and has worked with a variety of municipal issuers. Mr. Isban received his B.A. from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y.

Brenda Eivens has served as City Manager of the City of Cedar Park since 2006. She joined the City over 16 years ago, at the start of unprecedented growth in the City. She has served as an Assistant City Manager, preceded by her role as the Human Resources Director. As Chief Executive Officer, Brenda has led the development of programs and implementation of projects that have improved the quality of life for the Cedar Park community. Fiscally responsible for an annual operating budget of more than $70 million and a team of 390 City employees, she manages the day-to-day operations of the City Government through the administration of the City’s Strategic Plan and Capital Improvements Programs.Brenda has an undergraduate degree from Sam Houston State University and holds a Master of Public Administration from Texas State University.

Devin Phillips is responsible for managing the region as well as underwriting municipal issues on a competitive and negotiated basis for the Southwest regional office located in Dallas. He has extensive knowledge and experience in trading and underwriting municipal securities in the Southwest region. His experience in municipal underwriting and trading spans over 29 years. Mr. Phillips was with Citigroup from 1986 to 2007 at which time he left the firm to run a municipal bond fund. He returned to Citigroup in 2011 to continue his role as an underwriter on the Dallas Syndicate Desk. Mr. Phillips has spearheaded Citi’s underwriting efforts in 2012.