Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Toni has a diverse 30-year career as an accounting professional. Toni joined Renown Health in Reno, Nevada in 2007. She is a manager in the finance department and has been the point person for the hospital system’s private use project since coming to Renown. Prior to Renown, she worked at Sutter Health, in Northern California for six years as a senior accountant in their Sac Sierra Region office. She attended American River College and California State University, Sacramento.

Since 2001, Bob Kerrey has been president of The New School, a university founded on strong democratic ideals and daring educational practices, and well-suited for his leadership. Throughout his career in public service, while serving as a governor and U.S. senator from Nebraska during the 1980s and 1990s, Bob Kerrey advocated for increased education spending.  He continues to do so, recognizing that democratic life flourishes most when all citizens are properly educated and given every chance to participate in the political process.  In his view, the United States has an obligation to work with the rest of the world to expand opportunities for all people.  That is why he supports active diplomacy, foreign aid and free trade.  Such support led him to serve on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and to become an active member of the 9/11 Commission. As president of The New School, Bob Kerrey has implemented a powerful strategy for change and development consistent with the university’s historic academic mission and responsive to the needs of the twenty-first century.  Recognizing The New School’s strengths in design, liberal arts, the social sciences and the visual and performing arts, he is transforming the university. Under his leadership, The New School is undergoing an unprecedented period of growth.  Enrollment and full-time faculty have increased significantly, with the undergraduate population alone increasing by over 40 percent to 5,000 degree students. Since 2001, a record $198 million has been raised for scholarships, professorships, capital projects, major conferences and cutting-edge research.  Plans are now underway for the largest space expansion in the university’s history.  A new signature building at 65 Fifth Avenue will embody the ahead-of-the-curve vision of The New School. Also unprecedented is the current collaboration among deans and faculty across disciplines to develop university-wide undergraduate and graduate programs.  This “new” New School will respond to the demands of globalization and give students the tools to compete in an increasingly interconnected world. During President Kerrey’s tenure, the university has made great progress in its international efforts.  Its expanding graduate program in International Affairs matriculates nearly 300 students from 34 countries who work directly with high-profile practitioners and scholars.  Additionally, the university has launched the India China Institute, a think-tank with major outposts in New York, Mumbai and Beijing; and the Tishman Environment and Design Center, which is developing a forward-thinking environmental studies program.Along with his duties as president of The New School, Bob Kerrey leads a five-year writing challenge sponsored by The National Commission on Writing in America’s Schools and Colleges and is co-chair with Newt Gingrich of The National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care.  He is a recipient of the Robert L. Haig Award for Distinguished Public Service from the New York State Bar Association, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from New York Law School, as well as the Distinguished Nebraskan Award and numerous other citations. In 2002, President Kerrey published a widely praised memoir, When I Was A Young Man. Bob Kerrey was educated in pharmacy at the University of Nebraska.  He served three years in the United States Navy.  After his military service and prior to entering political life, he started a chain of restaurants and health clubs in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.. He is married to Sarah Paley and lives in New York City.  The couple has a son, Henry, born September 10, 2001.  Mr. Kerrey’s children from his previous marriage are named Ben and Lindsey.

Dennis serves as the Lead Manager of the ABG Municipal Bond Fund, as well as the Co-Manager of the ABG Bond Fund, ABG Government Bond Fund and the ABG Employee Benefit Bond Fund. He is also responsible for the construction and management of a number of separately managed fixed income portfolios for Arvest Trust Company and Arvest Investment Management Group clients. His duties include portfolio management, analysis of municipal and corporate securities and fixed income securities trading. Dennis received his B.S.B.A. in economics from the University of Arkansas. He achieved the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 2002. Dennis is also a member of the Fixed Income Analysts Society and Southern Society of Municipal Analysts.Dennis rejoined Arvest in 2006. Prior to re-joining Arvest, Dennis served as the head of a regional broker-dealer’s Total Return Portfolio Strategies Group where he was responsible for the preparation of all of the firm’s fixed income research. Dennis also served as the head of Fixed Income Policy for Union Planters Investment Advisors where he managed the firm’s tax exempt mutual fund and co-managed the firm’s Balanced Fund and money market funds. Dennis began his career as a public & structured finance-underwriting analyst with a regional broker-dealer.

Laura Slaughter is the Executive Director at the Municipal Advisory Council of Texas (Texas MAC).� Texas MAC is a membership organization whose purpose is to promote effective and efficient investment banking, underwriting, trading and sales of municipal debt by collecting, maintaining and distributing information relating to issuing entities.� As Executive Director, Ms. Slaughter is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the organization and its twenty-six employees. She has been with Texas MAC since 1983 and is a graduate of the University of Texas with B.B.A. in Marketing.�

Jay Brown is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes and Investigations. With more than 24 years of public sector and real estate experience, he has performed and overseen numerous public-private transactions and asset repositioning strategies to help public sector clients generate revenue, reduce costs and create jobs.

Joseph Chu is a Director in Assured Guaranty�s Infrastructure and Utilities Group focusing on investor-owned utilities and structured energy transactions.� Prior to working at Assured, Mr. Chu was a senior transactor at XL Capital Assurance (now d/b/a Syncora Guarantee) focusing on global energy project finance and utilities, having worked on transactions totaling over $3 billion in North America, the U.K. and Australia. Prior to Syncora, Mr. Chu worked at Barclays Capital in high yield and investment grade debt capital markets, syndicate, and credit after starting his investment banking career in J.P. Morgan�s public finance department.� Early in his career, Mr. Chu was an urban planner for the City of New York developing public-private partnerships.� Mr. Chu graduated from Columbia College receiving an A.B. in Urban Studies, and from Columbia Business School with honors receiving an MBA in Finance.�

Mr. Dworkin is a 30-year veteran of municipal finance, and has extensive experience with all types of municipal transactions. He is the Head of the Western Region for Public Finance at J.P. Morgan.  He has helped his clients meet strategic and financial objectives utilizing a broad range of tax-exempt, taxable and derivative products.  Mr. Dworkin provides value-added banking to utility, infrastructure, and general government issuers.  His list of West Coast clients include, among others: State of California, City of Los Angeles, City of Santa Clara, City of San Diego, County of Los Angeles, County of Sacramento, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles World Airports, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Modesto Irrigation District, Port of Los Angeles, Sacramento County Water Agency, Sacramento Airport, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Southern California Public Power Authority and the Transmission Agency of Northern California. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Dworkin was Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns from 1989 to June 2008.  Prior employers also include Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Dworkin is Treasurer and CFO of the Board of Trustees for the Windward School in Los Angeles, where he heads the Finance Committee and serves as a member of the Executive Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Art Association – Gallery 825, a non-profit organization supporting Southern California emerging artists. Mr. Dworkin’s educational background includes an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BA degree from Columbia University.

Douglas J. Kilcommons is a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ U.S. public finance group. Doug is the manager of the higher education sector, which includes public and private colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and the not-for-profit sector that generally includes foundations, cultural institutions, and service organizations. Doug previously served as a senior analytic member of Fitch’s transportation team responsible for a portfolio of airport, seaport, and toll road credits. Prior to joining Fitch in 2003, Doug was the lead fixed income analyst for Neuberger Berman’s closed end municipal bond mutual funds, working across a host of taxable and tax-exempt sectors. He also worked for Radian Asset Assurance within the risk management group covering higher education and healthcare. Doug began his career at Standard & Poor’s, where he primarily analyzed higher education credits within the municipal enterprise group.Doug graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a BS in finance and holds an MBA from Pace University. He is an active member of both the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York.