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Bill White fights for the people he represents, and brings people together to get things done.  That’s why as Houston’s Mayor, he was re-elected twice with margins of 86% and 91%.  During his time of mayor, the Houston area led the nation’s cities in job growth, adding more than sixteen states combined.Bill White made Houston more efficient by reforming municipal pensions, reducing traffic delays and cutting energy consumption even as the city grew.  During his time as mayor, the government has provided more services – including parks, libraries and health clinics – while consistently cutting the property tax rate and raising exemptions for seniors and disabled citizens.Bill White made public safety one of his highest priorities and saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years.  For his leadership and dedication in fighting crime, he received the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award.In a recent editorial, the Houston Chronicle praised White’s management skills and his hit-the-brakes approach to spending, noting, “Mayor White has deftly steered Houston through both fiscal and tropical storms.  His successor will have a tough act to follow.”  Before that, Governing Magazine named White one of its 2007 Public Officials of the Year explaining, “In time of both crisis and calm, White, a former business executive… is a cool pragmatist who wants results rather than excuses.”The results of his strong leadership were noticed nationally in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  Bill “mobilized more than 100,000 Houstonians in the public, private business and faith-based communities to help evacuees rebuild their lives with independence and dignity,” said the John F. Kennedy Foundation presenting him with the Profiles in Courage Award, “in recognition of  his political courage in leading a compassionate and effective government response to the disaster.”Bill was also recently honored by the Houston Military Affairs Council for his work in spearheading a regional Returning Veterans Initiative deigned to give returning veterans the welcome they deserve with coordinated social services, reductions in red tape, and employment opportunities.  The Department of the Army has recognized this initiative as one of the finest in the country and Houston has been named one of the most military friendly cities to live and work.Bill has been a nationally recognized energy expert for decades, pushing for practical measures to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil with higher fuel economy standards for cars, aggressive energy efficiency programs, more production of domestic natural gas, and greater reliance on domestic renewable resources.  Before serving as mayor, White built one of the region’s most successful businesses.  Previously, he served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States, where he helped diversify national energy supplies and saved taxpayers more than a billion dollars with management reforms.  As a legislative assistant in Congress in the 1970’s, he worked on landmark energy legislation.

Christopher Moriarty is a director in the Housing Group in Public Finance at Barclays Capital where he came over with the entire Public Finance Group from Lehman Brothers on September 22, 2008. Prior to Barclays he was with Lehman Brothers for three years. Previous to Lehman Brothers he was employed with Standard & Poor’s for ten years and supervised the bond ratings for affordable, federally subsidized and military housing multifamily bond transactions in the Public Finance Housing Group. He has written extensively on credit issues relating to affordable multifamily, Federal Government credit enhancement of housing bonds, military housing, military base essentiality and military base closure issues.Among the bond structures he has worked on are:State HFA single family and multifamily indenturesFHA multifamily mortgage insuranceFHA multifamily risk shareGNMA Mortgage Backed SecuritiesFannie Mae and Freddie Mac credit enhanced and collateral agreementsSection 8 subsidizedSection 236 interest rate subsidizedGSA lease backedDOD Section 801 housing lease backedMilitary Housing Privatization Initiative housing transactionsDOD energy savings contractsAffordable multifamily REMIC’s (Real estate mortgage investment conduits)Uninsured affordable tax exempt multifamily single asset or pooled transactionsChris started his business career in the audit division at Arthur Andersen & Co. where he specialized in auditing securities companies. Following Arthur Andersen he spent six years in the real estate corporate finance group at Paine Webber Inc. as a Vice Present, the last year of which was spent in Tokyo where he specialized in credit real estate transactions. After PaineWebber, Chris worked in the real estate finance and investment sales division of Pearce, Mayer & Greer and then as CFO/controller of Pembroke Capital Corporation, a real estate workout company which purchased a large portfolio of troubled real estate and mortgage loans from NationsBank. He also spent six years on active duty as an officer in the United States Navy where he was assigned as a surface warfare officer to surface combatant ships. He served aboard the USS Spiegel Grove (LSD 32) as gunnery officer and flight deck officer. The last two years of his active duty Navy tour he was the executive officer and navigator of the USS Leader (MSO 490), a minesweeper home ported in Charleston, South Carolina. In the Naval Reserve he served as a commanding officer of three Naval Reserve units. He retired as a Captain in 2001 after 24 years in the Naval Reserve.Chris holds a B.A. from Columbia College that he received in 1971. He resumed his education in 1977 and received an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Columbia University Business School in 1979. Chris is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York State and a licensed real estate broker in New York State. He also has a NASD series VII license.

Karleen Strayer is managing director and Sector Manager for the Enterprise Sector of National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation. Her responsibilities within this line of business include originations for the healthcare, higher education, housing and non-profit sectors. Prior to National, Ms. Strayer was a managing director and Head of Global Enterprise within the Public Finance Division at MBIA Insurance Corporation. A highly respected leader in the industry with over 20 years of public finance experience, she played a key role in expanding MBIA's footprint in global enterprise increasing credit enhancements to $12.2 billion in 2007 from just $6.2 billion in 2004. Ms. Strayer began her career at MBIA in 1992 in the Insured Portfolio Management Division where she was responsible for surveillance of a $40+ billion portfolio and related remedial activity.Prior to joining MBIA, Ms. Strayer served as a vice president in the Public Banking Department at The First National Bank of Chicago, providing credit enhancement and other financial products and services to hospitals, universities and cultural institutions.Ms. Strayer received an MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Richard Fleming is a New York-based partner at Bain & Co.

McIntyre, CFP, is an experienced wealth adviser and founder of MAC Financial, a financial services firm. He is a 6-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table, with two Court of the Table honors. He is also a member of the Financial Planning Association (FPA).

Therese Tucker is the founder and CEO of financial automation solutions provider BlackLine.

Patrice Radogna, ASA, CBA, CVA, CPA, is senior vice president of Valuation Research Corporation, which provides opinions about valuation, solvency, capital adequacy, and fairness for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, financings, and financial and tax reporting matters. She earned a BS in finance from Boston College. Contact her at pradogna@valuationresearch.com.