Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Kim Du'Prey joined the Illinois Finance Authority, IFA, in July, 2009 as a Senior Funding Manager working with local governments, school districts and other public sector clients. She administers the IFA’s Bond Bank Program, coordinating and structuring the financing needs of the IFA’s Borrowers (local governmental units) with underwriters and various legal counsels to originate the IFA’s pooled bond issues which offer its participants dual exempt financing, lower costs of issuance through economies of scale and in, most cases, the credit enhancement of the State’s Moral Obligation. She is a member of the IFA’s Renewable Energy Team and sector leader on the Energy Efficiency Team.Kim’s experience and knowledge of the secondary tax exempt and taxable municipal capital markets were gained from her eight years on the sales and trading desks at Merrill Lynch and twelve years with Citigroup. Prior to joining the IFA, she was a Public Finance Investment Banker with D.A. Davidson & Co. in Chicago, focused on debt origination, and served as a Financial Advisor to the City of Chicago, State of Illinois and the IFA. Worked on restructuring transactions and credit enhancement guarantees which allowed public finance clients to regain marketability and reduce interest rate costs on their short-term debt instruments after numerous municipal bond Insurer and Bank downgrades, investment bank insolvencies and mergers. B.S. in Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago FINRA Licenses: Series 7, 63 & 53.

Jeff  Pitkin is Treasurer and the chief financial officer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), a position he has held since 2001.  He previously served as Controller and Assistant Treasurer since 1991.  He has current responsibilities for accounting and financial reporting, budgeting, contract management, bond financing, information technology and information security, and internal controls.Previously, Mr. Pitkin was Controller for Trans World Music Corporation and was a Senior Accountant for Ernst & Young.  He is a certified public accountant, and received a BBA in Accounting from Siena College.

Ms. Hayes serves as the Director of Capital Ventures, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Installations, Energy, & Environment. With over 20 years experience in housing/project management at the installation, Major Command, and Secretariat levels, Ms. Hayes brings a wealth of field experience to the Installations & Housing office.   She began her professional career as a Department of the Army Housing Intern at Fort Hood, TX and was subsequently assigned as a Housing Referral/Customer Service Manager.  After completing assignments as Branch Chief in Family Housing, Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, and Facilities Management, Ms. Hayes was promoted to the senior housing management level and served as Housing Division Chief both at Darmstadt, Germany and Fort Meade, MD.   Ms. Hayes’ served as Deputy Director for Public Works at Fort Meade, MD.  From this position, she began working housing privatization issues and was ultimately selected to work in the RCI Office in the Army Secretariat at the Pentagon.  Serving as a senior program manager and Deputy Director of the RCI program, Rhonda led the efforts on RCI source selection evaluation boards and was responsible for strategic planning, project scheduling, and overall RCI program execution involving 44 Army installations.  She also has responsibility for negotiating privatization projects for Privatization of Army Lodging (PAL) and Single Soldier Unaccompanied Housing.Ms. Hayes has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Arkansas and has completed post-Master’s graduate work at the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs.  She is a member of the Professional Housing Management Association (PHMA). Rhonda brings the dual perspective of housing professional and military spouse to all her assignments.  She is married to an Army officer and has three daughters.

Larry Weis is a native of Washington State. He began his Utility career in 1981 as the Commercial Energy Supervisor for the Snohomish Public Utility District in Everett, Washington and later promoted to the operations side of the business as an Area Manager. In 1990, he was hired as the General Manager for the Pend Oreille Public Utility District, also in Washington State. He held that post for ten years before being selected after a nationwide search to become the CEO and General Manager of the TID in 2000. TID operates one of the largest irrigation systems in the state serving the agriculturally rich Central Valley in California.   Its electric utility is among the 30 largest public power utilities in the United States. He has lead the acquisition and construction of a variety of facilities ranging from power transmission, small and large scale hydroelectric, thermal generation and renewable energy projects.  Larry serves or has served for many associations and joint action agencies regionally and nationally within the utility industry, including current service as a board member for the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) and the Northwest Public Power Association (NWPPA). He is also involved at the local level and most notably is on the Board for California State University-Stanislaus.Larry has a BS degree and attended Western Washington University in Industrial Technology and Seattle University in Electrical Engineering.

With 30 years of utility experience, Heather Bailey has specialized in regulatory, transmission, and business issues. Her career includes the Texas PUC, utility transmission executive management, and consulting. Ms. Bailey also held controller, treasurer, and deputy CFO positions at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA). As a utility executive at LCRA she was responsible for transmission projects, regulatory strategy, land acquisition, surveying and mapping and financial management. She was active in developing strategies to leverage assets in a regulated environment, manage costs, and establishing a separate transmission affiliate that expanded statewide. She has consulted on financial, regulatory, and utility strategy matters and has been active in the CREZ process. While working at the Texas PUC, she managed the regulatory compliance division and testified in utility rate cases. Ms. Bailey holds a BBA from Sam Houston State University and a MBA from the University of Texas. She is also a CPA.

Mr. Turner joined RETA as the Executive Director in April, 2009. Mr. Turner has 10 years of experience in the financial industry in both marketing and financial analysis. Prior to joining RETA, Mr. Turner spent 8 years with the New Mexico Finance Authority where he was the Director of Finance and Chief Financial Advisor. During that time, Mr. Turner closed more than $300 million in loans, and oversaw over one billion of other transactions. Mr. Turner earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics/Agricultural Business and a Master of Business Administration from New Mexico State University.

Mr. Neal advises businesses and their owners on the federal income tax aspects of a broad range of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, reorganizations, debt offerings, disputes with taxing authorities, and general business tax planning. He also regularly advises clients on tax issues relating to renewable energy projects, including production tax credits, investment tax credits and federal grants. He is a member of the Tax Council of the Virginia Bar Association.

Scott T McKillip, P.E., has twenty-two years of engineering and consulting experience and has held positions of increasing senior management responsibility within the Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Group of SAIC since 2004. He has a very diverse background in engineering and construction, spanning environmental, civil/infrastructure, homeland security, and energy-related projects within the private and public sectors. Scott currently serves as both the President of SAIC Engineering, Inc. and as a Vice President of The Benham Companies, LLC. He provides Operations Management of Design/Build programs for the Energy Services business sector. Benham is an engineering and life-cycle technology implementation firm with over 800 employees and 13 U.S. locations that serves Fortune 500 commercial and federal government customers. Benham offers a full range of capabilities in consulting, engineering, architecture and design/build, including specialized expertise in energy management, alternative fuels, process engineering, industrial manufacturing, facilities, software development and integration, and advanced visualization and communication systems. Benham was acquired by Science Applications International Corporation(SAIC) in 2007 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC.