Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

As Senior Vice President and General Manager, North America for The Western Union Company, Victoria López-Negrete is responsible for managing all consumer related products and services for the United States, Canada and Mexico. López-Negrete’s tenure with Western Union began in 2008 and she has held increasingly responsible roles including Vice President for U.S. Hispanic Business, Mexico and U.S. Money Transfer for Western Union, Vigo & Orlandi Valuta. López-Negrete has extensive experience from over 20 years in financial services in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Having worked in retail banking and payment services with a solid and successful track record. Prior to joining Western Union, López-Negrete broadened her experience while serving the U.S. Hispanic segment at López-Negrete Communications, an independent, Hispanic owned and operated, full-service agency specializing in Hispanic marketing. Among other accounts, she managed the U.S. Hispanic advertising strategy for Visa USA and Microsoft. López-Negrete also led Citibank card business for Latin America. She managed all marketing and rebranding efforts for Mexico’s Grupo Financiero Citibank, the marketing strategy forCitibank’s credit card launch in Peru, as well as for the Consumer Franchise Management group in Chile. In addition, Victoria was the General Manager for the MasterCard Office in Mexico. López-Negrete has advised several clients including Unilever, De Beers, Colgate-Palmolive, Northern Telecom, United Distiller and Grupo Maseca (Mission Foods). She also performed brand management for Gillette and Sabritas/Pepsi Food International in Mexico. Victoria has served on the Board of Directors for Latin America Visa, TSYS – Mexico and Prosa, the Mexican Banking Association and the Visa Marketing Committee in Chile. López-Negrete has a degree in Sciences of Social Communication from Anáhuac University in Mexico City, Mexico. She is fluent in English & Spanish.´ 

Matt has 12 years experience in credit risk, modeling, forecasting and asset management. As head of GS2’s Private Loan services business he is currently overseeing $3.6B in private student loans for clients ranging across colleges and universities, hedge funds, investment banks, insurance companies and asset-backed entities. Matt also runs GS2’s debt purchasing business that makes opportunistic acquisitions of pools of charged-off student loans. Prior to joining GS2 in 2008 Matt worked for GE Capital as a Senior Risk Analyst covering HELOCs, retail credit cards and power sports where he was twice the recipient of the GE Americas Award for excellence in analytics driving profitable growth. Matt holds a BA in Economics from Macalester College and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.