Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Ted Risher, a Senior Associate at BBPC, has more than 15 years of experience in managing real estate and infrastructure development projects, focusing on the structuring of mutually beneficial partnerships between public, private and institutional clients. Mr. Risher provides full-service, project life-cycle advisory services including concept feasibility and economic analysis, underwriting and financial modeling, deal structuring and closing support, and ownership representation in all phases of development. In addition to coordinating the services of the infrastructure business team at BBPC, Mr. Risher works with clients engaged in various development initiatives on improving financial performance, mitigating risk, and properly leveraging government and institutional credit. Prior to his tenure at BBPC, Mr. Risher worked for both public and private development organizations, structuring and closing transactions for projects all over the country and has managed development portfolios valued in excess of US$1 billion.

Paul Haley is a Managing Director at Barclays and heads up the firm’s housing group providing primary coverage to State Housing Finance Agencies across the country.  Paul was previously a Senior Vice President with Lehman Brothers and from 2001-2008, he led our tax exempt banking effort in the Northeast leading the firm to its’ #1 ranking in seven of those years.  Mr. Haley previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts and further served the Commonwealth as a State Legislator and from 1996 to 2000, he served as the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee presiding over the passage of five annual state budgets and numerous capital spending plans including the financing of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, commonly known as “The Big Dig.” After graduating from Harvard with a degree in Economics in 1976, Paul volunteered for service in the U.S. Navy and earned his wings as a Naval Aviator in 1978.  He made several deployments as an F-14 Pilot to the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Eisenhower (CVN 69) with a home base at NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach. Upon his release from active duty in 1983, Paul embarked on a 27 year career in the Naval Reserve logging over 1,000 hours as a transport pilot and providing operational planning support to Second Fleet in Norfolk, Virginia.  He served as the Commanding Officer of four separate reserve component entities and his last assignment was as the Deputy Commander, Readiness Command Mid-Atlantic.  As the senior Reserve officer in the region, he served the needs of 21,000 sailors from West Virginia to Maine until his retirement in June of 2007.  His personal military awards include the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal and several unit commendations and expeditionary medals.   

As Vice President of Solar Development, Aaron is responsible for business development, deal structuring, and transactional negotiations of large SolarCity projects.  He uses a vertically integrated approach in all phases of solar PV development to optimize economic outcomes for government and private sector clients.  Aaron’s recent work on “SolarStrong” (a financing package specifically structured for privatized military housing properties) is among the first debt+tax equity financings in the solar distributed generation market for a large portfolio of geographically diverse solar systems.  This innovation has significantly lowered customer costs of fully financed, distributed generation solar systems.   Prior to joining SolarCity, Aaron was a Senior Vice President of Development at global real estate developer Lend Lease Corporation.  With a focus on Public-Private Partnerships, Aaron led teams of diverse real estate development, finance, legal, asset & property management, and design & construction professionals through the business development and deal structuring of transactions throughout the United States.  His accomplishments included numerous privatizations of military family housing projects ranging from $250M to $2.2B in transactional size, and leading the Lend Lease business through its then largest rooftop and ground-mounted distributed generation renewable energy projects.Past career experience also includes a regional Design-Build Director role for Montgomery Waston Harza, and service as an Officer in the US Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps.In 2007, Aaron was recognized as one of Building Design + Construction Magazine’s “40 under 40”, selected in recognition of outstanding leadership in commercial construction.  Aaron holds a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo and is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer.

John McCray-Goldsmith is an investment banker at Barclays, where he leads the firm’s western region transportation infrastructure finance practice. A fifteen-year veteran of the municipal bond market, his work with California mass transit agencies includes financings for several of the entities that will be receiving the first injection of high speed rail connectivity funds which were approved by the California Transportation Commission in June, 2012. From 2006 to 2008, he served on the financial advisory team to the California High Speed Rail Authority. A frequent flier on the San Francisco to Los Angeles corridor, he looks forward to enjoying a one-seat high-speed train ride from the Transbay Terminal to Union Station in his lifetime.

Joe Yew recently joined FirstSouthwest in May 2012 as Senior Vice President, bringing with him more than 20 years of public finance experience in both the public and private sectors. Joe specializes in the areas of general government and utility financing. He also has local government consulting expertise in the areas of operating and capital budgeting; revenue forecasting and analysis; parking revenue controls; treasury management services; accounting; pension and OPEB; and other fiscal management services.Joe�s public sector background covers over 15 years of professional experience in California state and local government, having recently served as the Finance Director/City Treasurer of the City of Oakland, and as the Finance Director for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. He was also Assistant State Treasurer under the late former State Treasurer Matt Fong as Executive Director for the Debt Limit Allocation Committee, and served as an alternate board member for the Treasurer for CalPERS and CalSTRS.His private sector experience includes work at De La Rosa and Stone & Youngberg.Joe earned a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of California at Irvine and a MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rebecca J. Winthrop is a Shareholder in the Los Angeles Office, and is a member of the firm’s Public Finance and Bankruptcy & Restructuring Groups. Her practice focuses on representing financial institutions, special servicers and other creditors in commercial lending transactions, workouts and bankruptcies. She has handled disclosure and due diligence matters for public bond offerings for municipalities, has regularly represented indenture trustees on bondholder issues, loan workouts and bankruptcies involving high-yield securities, has hands-on experience representing municipalities in matters involving Chapter 9, and advises on Assembly Bill 506. Ms. Winthrop regularly speaks on bankruptcy-related topics involving municipal bond defaults, distressed real estate, loan restructuring and employment issues, including before the Commercial Finance Association, the Turnaround Managers Association and the Beverly Hills Bar Association.

Kevin Carney, Managing Director, is responsible for banking coverage of the US Port and Airport Sectors at Wells Fargo Securities.� Since 2011, he has served as the senior banker on WFS’ port and airport transactions totaling $15 billion. Over the course of his 28-year career, Mr. Carney has served as senior investment banker, financial advisor, lead analyst for the US port and airport sectors at Moody’s Investors Service, and a transportation consultant.� Mr. Carney started his career at the Massachusetts Port Authority and has a BS from Northeastern University.��

Richard Morales is the Debt Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, having joined them in 2011. The SFPUC is a water, sewer and power utility agency of the City and County of San Francisco. Its Water Enterprise provides drinking water from the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System to 2.5 million residents and businesses in San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Its Wastewater Enterprise provides sewer and stormwater collection services to residents and businesses in San Francisco. And its Power Enterprise provides clean, renewable hydroelectric power for the City’s municipal facilities and buildings, including San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco General Hospital and the MUNI transit system. Rich manages all debt issuance and debt administration activities for the agency’s three enterprises. In this regard, he oversees the issuance of Water Revenue Bonds and Commercial Paper to fund the Water Enterprise capital program, including the $4.6 billion Water System Improvement Program (WSIP); Wastewater Revenue Bonds and Commercial Paper to fund the Wastewater Enterprise capital program, including the upcoming multi-billion dollar Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP); and Power Revenue Bonds to fund the Power Enterprise capital program, including federally-subsidized CREBs and QECBs for clean, renewable energy projects of the Power Enterprise.Prior to joining the SFPUC, Rich worked in the Public Finance private sector as both a financial advisor and investment banker.

John Wiley is a senior vice president and portfolio manager of the Franklin California Tax-Free Income Fund, Franklin High-Yield Tax-FreeIncome Fund, Franklin California High Yield Municipal Bond Fund, Franklin California Intermediate-Term Tax-Free Income Fund andFranklin California Insured Tax-Free Income Fund.Mr. Wiley joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 1989. He earned his B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeleyand his master's in finance from St. Mary's College. Mr. Wiley is currently a member of the San Francisco Municipal Bond Club, CaliforniaSociety of Municipal Analysts and National Federation of Municipal Analysts.