Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Buddy Beaman, serving as VP, currently manages PCA Acquisitions V, LLC, a national debt buyer specializing in niche portfolio acquisition. Buddy has more than 20 years of experience in the credit and collections industry, including operations, strategy, analytics, database management, vendor management, project management and software consulting. His experience included various roles that have taken him to international sites across Europe and Canada. He held previous management positions at Bear Stearns, Bank One/FirstUSA, London Bridge and GTE Wireless.

John Graser is the Collection Strategy and Recovery Director for Barclaycard U.S. Mr. Graser is responsible for the Recovery organization, Collections Project Management, Production Implementation, Collections Strategy, and Collection Legal Matters. Prior to joining Barclaycard U.S., Mr. Graser was the SVP of Recovery for Bank of America where he managed the Consumer Card, Probate, and Business card portfolios. In his role with Bank of America he managed the performance results of 60 asset recovery agencies with a total inventory of $6.3 billion dollars. He is a credit card industry professional with 20 years of experience managing various aspects of the secured and unsecured credit card lifecycle. John has managed an operations center with more than 400 customer marketing and retention employees in Newark, Delaware for MBNA America Bank. He has held call center operations positions in the areas of new account acquisition, fraud mitigation, telesales, and retention. Mr. Graser is a graduate of the University of Delaware where he received a B.S. in Education.

Shekhar Sahgal is vice president, U.S. Prepaid Product at MasterCard Worldwide.  In this role, he is responsible for leading the growth and development of consumer prepaid product programs in the U.S. Before joining MasterCard, Mr. Sahgal led several global product development initiatives at American Express, where he drove the launch of travel cards and other prepaid programs.  Prior to working at American Express, he was with Citigroup in Europe where he led efforts to drive growth in Citi’s credit card and retail banking businesses with roles in Greece, Germany and the UK.  Sahgal received his MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and received dual undergraduate degrees in economics and computer science from the University of Rochester.