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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    Mitchell Young is Senior Director at Neustar, where he oversees the Collections, Financial Services, Call Center and Data verticals.� Mitchell has been at Neustar for 11 years helping companies leverage real-time identity data and analytic insights to improve operational efficiencies and manage risk and compliance.� Prior to joining Neustar, Mitchell was the Senior Director of Risk at TARGUSInfo, where he built two separate, multi-million dollar vertical markets.� Mitchell has an undergraduate degree from Penn State and an MBA from New York University.

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    Manuel Newburger defends collection industry members and consults on compliance issues in the U.S., Canada, India and the Philippines.� An adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law and a fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers, he has repeatedly been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer.

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    Bob Gibson is vice president of branch operations for Cummins Allison, a company that provides technology and check, currency and coin handling solutions.

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    Tom Bloetscher joined Regions in 2002 and currently leads the Consumer Credit Risk Management team at Regions Financial Corporation, serving as the primary credit risk contact for the consumer lending and mortgage line of business units.� He is responsible for consumer credit policies, underwriting procedures and portfolio management strategies. Tom also has responsibility for consumer loss forecasting, portfolio stress testing, and credit scoring models.� Regions is a top U.S. bank-holding company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with $121 billion in assets, operating 1,700 banking offices in 16 states.Prior to his current role, Tom led the Bank�s Credit Administration team and also served as its Senior Credit Officer for Consumer Lending.� Before joining Regions, Tom served in various positions at Experian, CIBC, World Omni Financial Corp. and Barnett Banks.Tom holds a bachelor�s degree in Economics and Finance from Miami University in Ohio and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. �He has earned the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and is an active member of GARP and the Risk Management Association.� He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

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    Laurent Cremer has held the position of Executive Director of OSPT Alliance since its formation in 2011. In this time he has driven awareness of the alliance, secured partnerships within the public transport ecosystem and engaged new members to join and contribute to the work of the body. Within his role Cremer liaises directly with the OSPT Alliance Board and members to coordinate and implement its strategic vision. He works across its various working groups to advance objectives and represents the alliance externally at industry meetings and conferences globally. Cremer joined the OSPT Alliance with more than 20 years� experience working within the smartcard and RFID sector across the telecom, transportation, banking and ID markets. He has worked in numerous roles for companies such as Arkadin, IPICO, TID and Gemalto, worldwide.�

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    Michelle possesses nearly 30 years of experience in the financial services industry with a deep understanding of regulatory compliance and project management.�She has extensive experience managing the development and delivery of software and analytics products in support of consumer and small business lending, �At Bridgeforce,� Michelle has established and overseen the project management office functions for some of the largest Bridgeforce engagements focused on critical regulatory compliance and operational improvements.� She continues to be heavily involved in the field of credit bureau management and recently has led CBM compliance ventures to help clients quickly satisfy regulatory accuracy and integrity expectations.� Michelle holds an MBA and a BA in Business, Music and Computer Science from Baldwin Wallace University.

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    Alon Feit is the CEO of PayItSimple USA Inc., a payment solutions technology company. He has also served as CEO of Supersal Finance, a credit card issuer owned by Isreal's largest bank, and was also CEO of Europe Assistance Isreal; and as an executive director at the credit card subsidiary of Unibanco.�

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    Elizabeth A. Singer supervises all of the Department of Justice�s work under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).� Under Ms. Singer�s leadership, the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section has produced settlements that are expected to provide over $200 million in monetary relief for servicemembers and will ensure, through powerful injunctive relief, that the nation�s five largest mortgage servicers implement new procedures to prevent active duty servicemembers from being foreclosed on improperly or from being charged excessive interest rates.� She also supervised the Department�s $60 million case against Sallie Mae for excessive student loan charges to servicemembers, and the Department�s $9 million case against Santander Consumer USA for unlawful auto repossessions against servicemembers.� She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1990.

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    Austin Mills is an associate in the Fintech/Payments Group of Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, a law firm whose clients include companies in financial services, commercial finance, healthcare, technology and other industries.