Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Mike Parker serves as Managing Director of Jeffrey A. Parker & Associates (JPA), a leading, independent advisor on finance, public-private partnerships and business planning for public infrastructure. Mr. Parker is a recognized expert on the growing US P3 market. His experience includes recent and ongoing work on over $10 billion of domestic transportation projects, and his active clients include the Port Authority of NY & NJ, the Bay Area�s Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the departments of transportation for Florida, Illinois and Ohio. Previously, he assisted Florida in establishing its P3 program and in realizing the $1.65b I-595 Corridor Improvements and Express Lanes project and the $950m Port of Miami Tunnel. Mr. Parker holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from its Wharton School of Business.

David Tyeryar currently serves as the Deputy Secretary of Transportation for the Commonwealth of Virginia. From 2001 until 2010, he served as the Prince William County Budget Director. He was the County’s Budget Director when the County’s bond rating was upgraded to AAA in 2004 and helped guide the organization through $143 million of budget cutting over the last 4 years. Prior to his appointment as Budget Director, Mr. Tyeryar served as the County’s Accounting Division Chief for 10 years; each year he received an unqualified audit from the County’s external auditors. Mr. Tyeryar’s professional experience includes serving as Accounting Manager for Fairfax County, VA where he also received unqualified audit opinions from the external auditors. He has worked in Public Accounting in Auditing, Consulting, and as a Tax Advisor. Mr. Tyeryar is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Roanoke College. He also has served on the faculty of Northern Virginia Community College as an adjunct professor.

Mr. O’Brien leads Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Municipal Markets Group P3 efforts and has served as lead banker for the firm’s role as joint lead manager for the $397 million Denver RTD Eagle P3 transit concession PABs issue in August of 2010, the $663.75 million Midtown Tunnel Toll Road concession PABs issue in April of 2012, the $676,805 million Indiana Finance Authority availability concession PABs issue priced in March of 2013 and the $460.915 million Goethals Bridge Replacement Project Concession that priced in November of 2013.� Mr. O’Brien also served as an advisor and senior manager to the Orange County Transportation Authority for its acquisition of the SR 91 Toll Lanes concession in November of 2003.� Mr. O’Brien also served as lead banker to the Riverside County Transportation Commission’s (RCTC) financing of the extension of the SR 91 toll lanes into Riverside County, which is a managed lanes project..� Mr. OBrien has over 27 years of municipal finance experience and brings extensive experience in advising and structuring public/private partnerships and private concession transactions.

Joyce Wilson was appointed the very first City Manager for the City of El Paso in August 2004, following a nationwide recruitment search.   As City Manager, Ms. Wilson oversees a full-service municipality that owns and operates an international passenger and commercial airport, foreign trade zone, five international bridges,  a mass transit system, a host of cultural and convention facilities/venues and all other traditional urban services.   The annual operating budget is in excess of $700 million with a 6200+-employee workforce.   Ms. Wilson maintains well over 20 years of city management experience, working in cities such as Richmond, Virginia; Yuma, Arizona and Arlington County, Virginia.  Over the course of her career, Ms. Wilson has played an integral role in effectively managing such issues as: Working to professionalize, streamline and economize government services Stimulating and redevelopment of Downtown areas Fostering partnerships among the private and public sectors Encouraging development of public art programs Initiating professional development programs for organizational staff Development and enhancement of health and community services related to at-risk youth, elderly care and community health risksShe is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics, and holds a Master of Public Administration (Fiscal and Urban Policy) degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  She also is an alumni of the Kellogg Foundation’s National Fellowship Program.  In 2006, Joyce was selected to the National Academy of Public Administration.Joyce has received numerous awards including:  the 2006 Administrator of the Year from Texas City Management Association, Excellence in Leadership Award from the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Arizona State “Main Street Person of the Year”, and the Superior Service Award from the Arizona Chapter of American Society of Public Administrators in 1999.  She was recognized by the International City/County Management Association in 1999 for her efforts in Citizen Participation and International Relations efforts and in 1994 for excellence in leadership as an assistant level.At the community level, Joyce has been actively involved in various non-profit organizations including United Way, Boys and Girls Clubs, Salvation Army and Catholic Charities.  Her focus is on organizations supporting at risk families and children and immigrant populations.

Mr. Durando is a Managing Director and Head of Municipal Syndication for RBC Capital Markets. His primary responsibilities include RBC Capital Market�s underwriting engagements for major transactions nationally. Mr. Durando has over 32 years experience in Municipal underwriting and trading, having directed senior managed transactions in excess of $65 billion in Municipal debt during his career. Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets in 2006, Mr. Durando spent his career at Wachovia Bank and it�s predecessor organizations where he was a Managing Director and Manager of Municipal Trading and Underwriting.Mr. Durando graduated from the University of Delaware in 1980 with a BS-Finance degree and Seton Hall University in 1984 with a MBA-Finance. Mr. Durando is currently registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. ("FINRA") with Series 7, 63 & 53 securities licenses.

Paula has a BBA in accounting from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas and a Finance & Accounting MBA from Regis University in Denver, CO. She earned a CPA while working for her first professional employer, the then Big 8 accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney. She also held other positions in San Antonio, including being a regional controller for Time Warner for approximately eight years and the V.P. of Finance for Luby's, Inc. before coming to CPS Energy in late 2004. Paula served as CPS Energy's controller from 2004 through 2006 before being appointed to the position of Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Organizational Excellence & Shared Services in November 2006. On February 1, 2008, Paula returned to the Financial Services area to become CPS Energy's Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer. She considers herself fortunate to have received rewarding and challenging assignments throughout her career such as overseeing multiple aspects of SEC reporting; managing human resource, payroll, and customer service billing system conversions; strategically guiding an enterprise-wide organization design; and setting regulated customer billing and recovery rates for the local cable company. She also considers other assignments such as developing corporate policy programs and conducting contract evaluations for corporate risk and compliance as constructively helpful towards her professional growth.

Nick Samuels is Vice President - Senior Credit Officer/Manager for the States and High Profile Ratings Team covering credits for the states of Texas, New York City, and the District of Columbia. Prior to joining Moody’s, Nick worked for the National Association of State Budget Officers analyzing state fiscal and expenditure trends. Nick holds a BA degree in government from Skidmore College and a Master’s in Public Administration from the George Washington University.

George Pedraza joined Wells Fargo Public Finance in August 2008 from UBS Investment Bank’s Municipal Securities Group. He is responsible for developing and maintaining banking relationships with Texas-based municipal issuers. He has worked on more than $4 billion of bond financings for Texas clients, including Alamo Community College District, Bexar County, City of San Antonio, El Paso County, El Paso PSB, City of Laredo, Laredo ISD, CPS, SAWS, City of Corpus Christi, City of McAllen, City of San Marcos, Cameron County, TXDOT, Nueces County, Webb County, Williamson County and various other school districts and municipal entities. Prior to joining UBS, George served as an Assistant to the City Manager for the City of San Antonio. In addition, he previously worked for Chase Securities, Inc. as a municipal bond investment banker. Prior to Chase, he worked in New York City with the Sumitomo Trust & Banking, Co., Ltd. as a municipal credit associate. He currently serves on the Board of the Architectural Foundation of San Antonio, as a Director of the Center for State & Local Government Excellence (Washington, DC), and as a Director of the Tecaboca-Marianist Center for Spiritual Renewal in Mountain Home, Texas.He is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, holds a Master of City & Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Public Administration from Syracuse University. He holds Series 7, 53 and 63 licenses.

Steve graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his bachelor degree in Business Administration and his masters in Professional Accounting. Steve earned the Certified Public Accountant designation in 1989. He also has the designations of Certified Cash Manager, Certified Management Accountant, Project Management Professional, Certified Texas School Business Official, Registered Texas School Business Administrator and Certified Administrator of School Finance and Operations (SFO) through the Association of School Business Officials International. Steve started his career with Price Waterhouse as a Tax Associate in 1988. Since 1990 Steve has worked for Santa Rosa Medical Group and HealthSouth, Inc as an Administrator, USAA as Director/Process Leader for Corporate Finance and SBC (now ATT) as Associate Director - Product Financial Analysis before joining North East ISD in January 2003 as the Senior Director of Budgets and Financial Control. He joined San Antonio ISD in April 2008 as the CFO. He is responsible for all aspects of Finance as well as School Nutrition and Transportation.

Mr. Pete Gonzalez, deputy city manager/CFO for the city of Brownsville, Texas, has a BBA degree in business administration with a major in accounting from Texas A&I University in Kingsville, Texas. Mr. Gonzalez is a CGFM (certified government financial manager). He has been employed with the city of Brownsville since January 3, 1978 and has just completed his 33rd year with the city of Brownsville. As the deputy city manager/CFO, he assumes the duties of the city manager during the city manager’s absence. He is active in various civic organizations within the city. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1967 where he saw combat action during the Vietnam War. He was honorably discharged in 1969 as a staff sergeant.