Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Tyler Smith is an attorney in the Greenville, SC office of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, and focuses on transactions on representing borrowers involving interest rate swaps as well as structured investment products such as guaranteed investment contracts, forward delivery agreements and repurchase agreements. His involvement in such transactions spans an array of sectors, education, health care, non-profit entities of all types and others types, with transactions ranging from plain vanilla" interest rate swaps to more complex transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars in notional principal amounts in deals across the country.

Dan McAllister was elected San Diego County’s Treasurer-Tax Collector in November 2002 and re-elected to his fourth term in June 2014 by an overwhelming 99% majority of the vote. Not only is he responsible for the collection of more than $5.5 billion in property taxes each year, but his office also manages the Investment Pool which reached an all-time high of $10.1 billion in April of 2016, ensuring that these funds are wisely invested and safeguarded for entities such as the school districts and cities in the County.� Since assuming office, he has worked extensively to improve customer service, enhance communications and outreach initiatives, and has made numerous operational improvements. He is also a strong advocate for diversity.� This is reflected in his staff, which encompasses professionals from all walks of life and backgrounds. His office now delivers service in 16 different languages.Dan also serves as a member of the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association, which manages more than $10 billion of investments. Additionally, he is a former chairman of the Board of Directors of the internationally recognized San Diego Convention Center Corporation.� Prior to his election as San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector, Dan was a successful financial consultant and investment broker.Dan contributes considerable time and resources to community service, such as serving as Chair of the San Diego Unified School District’s Special Audit and Finance Committee and is a participating member of the Boards of Directors of the Jackie Robinson YMCA; Habitat for Humanity, San Diego; and New Americans Museum, San Diego. �McAllister’s strong commitment and involvement in the community dates back to his service as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the Western Pacific country of Micronesia.A second-generation San Diegan, Dan holds a Bachelor’s degree (BA) from CaliforniaStateUniversity, Fresno, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from United StatesInternationalUniversity. He has also completed executive education programs in portfolio concepts and management at StanfordUniversity and the University of Pennsylvania’s WhartonSchool.

Chris joined Citi in 2001 following a 10-year stint at another major investment bank. Throughout his two decades in public finance, he has helped various states, counties, cities, school districts, community college districts, universities, hospitals, ports and airports, and water and sewer utilities, among others, raise over $228 billion of capital and working capital in over 500 financings. He has helped craft and execute a wide variety of credits, structures and financial products, including G.O. bonds, revenue bonds, lease/COP financings, TRANs, BANs, VRDOs, FRNs, CP, bridge loans, asset securitizations, interest rate swaps, options, forwards, POBs, PABs, QSCBs and RZEDBs.He also has specialized experience with municipal real estate financings, having completed over 40 non-recourse hotel financings, real estate development and redevelopment financings throughout his career. His experience includes serving as lead banker for some of Citigroup’s largest lead managed BABs financings, where he has played a central role in crafting and implementing the broad global marketing programs that promise to enhance US municipal issuers’ access to lower cost capital. Chris currently heads Citi’s Western Region public finance practice and sits on the Board of Directors for the California Public Securities Association (Cal PSA). He graduated with highest honors from UCLA with a BA in Economics/Business and holds Series 7, 53 and 63 registrations with the NASD.

Mr. Pitts currently is Vice Chairman of Vanguard Health Systems. Vanguard is aprivately held company founded by senior healthcare executives in 1997 and owned byThe Blackstone Group, management and Morgan Stanley Capital Partners. Currently,Vanguard owns and operates 15 acute-care hospitals and related outpatient businessesin five primary markets. Keith Pitts has over 25 years of health care experience, withvarying responsibilities across multiple industry sectors. Mr. Pitts has significant experience in the acute care and managed care sectors of the health care industry. Inaddition, he has experience in the long-term care, physician practice management andspecialty services sectors. Mr. Pitts' experience covers the functional areas of mergersand acquisitions, development, strategic planning, organizational development,operations, finance and information systems. Prior to joining Vanguard, Keith was theChairman and CEO of Mariner Post-Acute Network and its predecessor, ParagonHealth Network. His career includes serving as OrNda HealthCorp's Executive VicePresident and Chief Financial Officer as well as over 15 years as a consultant to healthcare organizations, most recently as a Partner in Ernst & Young's HealthcareConsulting practice. Mr. Pitts has served on the Boards of Directors of several publicand private companies. More recently he has served as the Chairman of the Federationof American Hospitals (FAH), a post he held for two years.

Raul Amezcua, is a Partner and Head of Investment Banking at De La Rosa & Co. Mr. Amezcua has 20 years of experience in the California Public Finance industry, including eight years at De La Rosa & Co. and twelve years with New York-based firms. In his career, he has completed almost 100 senior-managed debt financings with an aggregate par value exceeding $18 billion. He has served as the lead banker on numerous financings for many California cities and counties including the cities of Long Beach, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Chula Vista, Riverside and Moreno Valley, and the counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino and San Diego. He has also senior managed financings for large revenue bond issuers including MWD, LADWP, Sacramento Sanitation District, and transportation issuers such as the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, the LAMTA, SANDAG, SANBAG, RCTC and OCTA. Raul, a native of Los Angeles, received an MBA degree from the Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelors degree in Finance from the USC. He holds the Series 7, 24, 27, 53 and 63 licenses and is a past board member of the California Public Securities Association (Cal PSA). Raul has also served on the Board of the PUENTE Learning Center, a non-for-profit entity that provides educational programs to underprivileged children in east and south Los Angeles, for the past ten years, including serving as Chairman for the past four years.

Mark Adler joined Piper Jaffray & Co. in 2008 as a Managing Director of Piper’s California Public Finance Group. Mr. Adler joined Piper with a dozen colleagues from UBS Securities LLC where he was the Manager of the Western Region Municipal Investment Banking Group. Mr. Adler had been with UBS and its predecessor, PaineWebber, for eighteen years. During that period, UBS (and PaineWebber) was consistently among the leading firms in underwriting California municipal issues.As a twenty eight year veteran of the industry, Mr. Adler has a broad range of experience in local finance. This includes education, city, redevelopment agency, water district and county finance. On two separate occasions, Institutional Investor featured deals as Deals of the Year in which he acted as lead banker. This includes the innovative Disney financing for its second theme park in Anaheim.Mr. Adler serves on the Board of the California Public Securities Association including serving as Chairperson in 2004. Mr. Adler is a frequent speaker at industry forums including the most recent Bond Buyer California Public Finance Conference.Mr. Adler is a graduate of the Wharton School Graduate Division (M.B.A. - Finance and Public Management) and the Wharton School Undergraduate Division where he graduated summa cum laude.

Carol L. Lew is a shareholder of Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth, Newport Beach, California. She is nationally recognized with respect to tax issues relating to municipal finance. Her practice focuses on tax issues relating to a broad range of different types of State and local municipal finance, including 501(c)(3) borrowings, K-12 and higher education, IRS audits, and post issuance compliance.Ms. Lew is Past President of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, having served as President. She also served as Editor in Chief of the National Association of Bond Lawyers’ five volume treatise, Federal Taxation of Municipal Bonds, as a member of Steering Committee for the Bond Attorneys’ Workshop, and on numerous panels.Ms. Lew has served as Chair of the American Bar Association, Taxation Section, Tax-Exempt Financing Committee for the 2001-2003 term, in addition to serving on numerous committees and serving as author on comment projects on private activity bond restrictions, including those applicable to public/private partnerships.Ms. Lew has been a member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California, Taxation Section, and currently serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission. She was Co-Author of the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission – California Investment Primer.Carol Lew is a graduate of Hastings College of the Law (J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif).