Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Paula Elerick Feinberg is a Senior Vice President with Raymond James Financial Services where she and her assistant, Shannon, take care of multi generational families in Dallas, New York, San Francisco, Houston, El Paso and other great cities.  She brings with her over 25 years of experience in economic and community development, investment strategy, and financial planning with a special compassion for families who have experienced loss, having lost her husband four years ago.  Paula was born in Santiago, Chile and attended Loretto Academy preparatory. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Texas at El Paso in the Liberal Arts Honors Program where she was selected as the first Truman Scholar from UT El Paso. She lived in New York City for many years where she received her Masters in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University.  Paula worked in the South Bronx on community and economic development projects and later was recruited as a Vice President by Citibank to direct public affairs for Manhattan and the Bronx.  She spent 20 years with Citigroup and Smith Barney and joined Raymond James last year.  She currently serves on the Loretto Academy Board of Trustees in El Paso and returned recently to serve on the Board of Chiapas International in Dallas. She was a founding member of  this organization ten years ago in an effort to expand micro-lending tools to the poorest women in Latin America by connecting wealthy, philanthropic women in Dallas to the cause. Paula has one son, Agustin, who is 13. She is an avid traveler and loves cooking and dinner parties, yoga, reading, and music.  She is also devoted to philanthropy that is based on policy and services that lead wealth building and life changes. 

Catherine Cuellar serves as executive director of the Dallas Arts District, the largest contiguous urban cultural neighborhood in the United States and world headquarters of the Global Cultural Districts Network. For two decades she has worked as an award-winning multimedia journalist for national public radio stations and programs, Sojourners magazine and The Dallas Morning News among others. Previously, Ms. Cuellar spent five years as communications manager for the sixth-largest electric power grid in the U.S., Oncor. \nCurrently Ms. Cuellar serves on the boards of the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Rhodes College Alumni Association and the session of ruling elders at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. She recently made her debut as an author in the Dallas Noir short fiction anthology published in 2013 by Akashic Books. She is a 2014 Next Generation Project Texas Fellow at The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. Cuellar was recognized among the Dallas Business Journal’s 2013 “40 Under 40,” was a 2011 White House Fellows regional finalist, and was honored in 2007 as one of the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce's Five Outstanding Young Dallasites. 

Andrew Welsch is a former managing editor of Financial Planning.