Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Lauren is Partner/COO of Solutions for Account Management, Inc. (SAM) providing consulting solutions to the Accounts Receivable Management industry.� SAM provides recommendations to credit originators across all industry verticals that include: third party agency selection, debt sale strategy, First Party and Customer Care strategies, probate/bankruptcy servicers, and mail service vendors.Previously, Lauren was Vice President of Payment Solutions with Direct Brands, Inc., the largest direct-to-consumer distributor of media products in the United States, which operates iconic brands such as Book of the Month Club, Doubleday, and Columbia House. She had been with Direct Brands for over 13 years and oversaw the operations and performance of the Payment Solutions and Customer Service teams.��Lauren has developed several best practices for�internal and external collections, fraud/loss prevention, Customer Service and credit card processing.�She has an extensive background in establishing and managing payment strategies in order to reduce bad�debt.Prior to joining Direct Brands, Inc., Lauren worked at Arthur Andersen where she completed valuations of business enterprises including private and publicly traded equities, debt securities, and intangible corporate assets in connection with strategic planning, merger and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and tax planning.� Lauren is a graduate of�Lehigh�University with a Bachelor�s degree in Finance and Marketing.�

Jo Webber is founder, chairman and CEO of Oink, a youth-focused payments company. Webber has also served as CEO of InnaPhase and Energy Solutions International.

David has over twenty-four years of experience in collections. Beginning his career serving as Vice President of Retail Collections at Great Lakes Collection Bureau in 1991, In 1995 he was part of the start-up team responsible for the creation of Receivable Services of America. In 1997 David and his partners formed Zenith Acquisition Corp and he served as its CEO for 15 years overseeing its growth from start-up to a leader in the Debt Buying Industry. Zenith bought over 9 billion in assets through 300 transactions from most major lenders until 2012. Additionally he kept Zenith on the forefront of compliance and customer service. David is currently a member of the board of Directors for DBA International where he has severed for 5 years, three years as Chairman of the State Legislative Committee a year as Secretary and he is currently, chairing the Editorial Committee as well Co-chair of the Membership Committee.�

Manuel “Manolo” S�nchez is chairman and CEO of BBVA Compass, and was named U.S. country manager for BBVA Group in 2010. Under his leadership, BBVA Compass has established itself as an innovative, principled and customer-centric bank and a model of community involvement from Florida to California.S�nchez, whose responsibilities include BBVA operations in New York as well as Bancomer Financial Holdings, has worked for BBVA for nearly 25 years. He joined BBVA Compass as head of community banking in 2008, having led Laredo National Bank for the previous three years after it was acquired by BBVA. Between 2002 and 2005, S�nchez served as chief risk officer for BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City.Earlier in his BBVA career, S�nchez served in New York from 1999 to 2002, Paris from 1994 to 1999, and Madrid from 1990 to 1994, holding positions in the corporate, investment and correspondent banking divisions of the bank.In addition to English and Spanish, he speaks French, German and Arabic. He lives in Houston with his wife and three children.Professional and Community ActivitiesS�nchez is a governing director of the Houston Symphony and a board member of the Financial Services Roundtable, Kipp Houston charter schools and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a member of the Yale Admissions Committee, the Greater Houston Partnership and the Houston chapter of the Young Presidents Organization, and is a trustee at the Post Oak Montessori School. S�nchez received the Laredo Gateway Rotary Club's 2014 Paul Harris Fellow award and was named Alabama Citizen of the Year for 2011 by the March of Dimes. He served as chairman for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk in 2007.EducationA graduate of Yale University, S�nchez earned master’s degrees in international relations from the London School of Economics and in advanced European studies from the College of Europe.

Lawrence F. Buettner is senior vice president of WAUSAU Financial Systems. He has also worked as a risk management director and consultant for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Steve Ruwe leads the enterprise-wide risk management strategy for PSCU, with a focus on preventing fraud and minimizing risk in the credit and debit card portfolios of Member-Owner credit unions. Advocating risk management practices for the industry, he serves as the Chairman of the Credit Union Risk Council and sits on the MasterCard U.S. Fraud Advisory Council. Prior to joining PSCU, Ruwe served as Visa USA�s Executive Vice President of Operations and Risk for 13 years. He's testified as a risk management expert before Congress numerous times on issues related to data security, Internet gaming, and Internet pharmacies. Ruse has also served on the Board of the Economic Crime Institute and the Financial Services Sector Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security. He can be contacted at sruwe@pscu.com.

Mark Vipond is CEO of D3 Banking, a provider of data driven digital banking. He can be reached at Mvipond@D3banking.com. Vipond has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry, including president of ACI Worldwide, where he was president of global product, senior vice president of consumer banking, chief operating officer, national sales manager and vice president of the emerging technologies and network systems divisions.

Marcelo De Lima is vice president of marketing for Sequent. De Limo has also served as director of mobile marketing for m-commerce at Verifone and director of marketing for Vivotech.

Stephen Pair saw a need for bitcoin payment processing and co-founded BitPay in 2011. Pair is involved in all of the day-to-day operations including research, engineering, product development, and information technology. Pair has 20 years of experience building software systems in the financial and telecommunications industries.Before founding BitPay, Pair held various roles including entrepreneur, architect, manager, team lead, and developer. He started programming at a young age and spent much of his early career focused on languages, compilers, operating systems, and virtual machines. Later, he developed an interest in the mechanics of financial markets, economics, monetary systems, and cryptography.Pair has Bachelors in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and two patents in the field of streaming analytics.