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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  • Ginger Siegel is a Senior Manager in the Financial Services group in Deloitte.� She brings 30 years of industry experience at large multinational and regional banks in the areas of Retail, Small Business and Business Banking. In addition to roles such as Small Business/Business Banking Director at Citi, she most recently built out the Small Business branch strategy for SunTrust’s 1500 branch network.� Her focus on people development, training and optimizing results through positive change management has helped the institutions she has worked in to obtain needed results in a people oriented environment. Her passion in addition to coaching and mentoring teams is to create overall revenue growth, drive customer acquisition and create strategy and bridge to execution.� Her work has encompassed strategy, process development and execution in areas such as credit, marketing, training, product bundling, sales force and branch optimization and value proposition creation.

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    Ghela Boskovich is head of fintech and regtech partnerships at StartupBootCamp. She is also founder of FemTechGlobal. Both roles focus on enriching the diversity — of tech and people — in financial services.

    March 21
  • Theodore Tomita III is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Catskill Hudson Bank. He has 7 years’ experience in the banking industry and 20 years of experience working in technology. He served in the United States Air Force where he was a USAF Honor Graduate. He holds various engineering and security certifications. The network he designed at Catskill Hudson Bank in partnership with Time Warner Cable Business Class has received recognition as one of the most secure and reliable networks in the banking industry.�

  • Narayan Makaram is a director at Imperva.

    December 19
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    Jeffrey Disterhoft has served in the position of CEO at the University of Iowa Community Credit Union since October, 1999. Mr. Disterhoft received a Bachelor of Arts in May, 1990 from Buena Vista College in Storm Lake. He is a certified public accountant and graduate of CUNA Management School, Athens, Georgia and has also been designated a Certified Credit Union Executive. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the University of Iowa Henry B. Tippie School of Management in 2003. Mr. Disterhoft’s work experience includes tenure at KPMG Peat Marwick as well as McGladrey & Pullen as a CPA specializing in financial institution’s audit work spanning from September, 1990 until he was hired by the UICCU in May, 1995 for the role of Vice-President of Finance. In 1997, he was promoted to Senior Vice-President of Finance & Administration. Since taking over as President, the UICCU has grown from just under $200 million in assets to over $1.8 billion today. New services have been provided for the membership during this time, including Wealth Management, Trust, Brokerage, and Commercial Services. During this period of healthy growth and service expansion, the credit union’s staff turnover ratio has been reduced by over 70%, while earnings have increased more than tenfold.

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    Robin Kolvek is CEO at EPL, a credit union service organization providing technology solutions to the industry.

    September 28