Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Mr. Hicks is a partner in the Public Finance Department of Ballard Spahr LLP and a member of the Higher Education and P3/Infrastructure Groups. He focuses his practice on tax-exempt finance, including general obligation, revenue and special assessment bonds, lease-purchase certificates of participation and nonprofit corporations.Mr. Hicks has been recognized in the 2003 through 2013 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, municipal law, and public finance law.He was named Best Lawyers' 2013 Phoenix Municipal Law "Lawyer of the Year."

Margaret Backstrom, is an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley’s San Francisco Public Finance office. Margie initially joined Morgan Stanley in 1994 and has over 14 years of municipal finance experience, structuring financings for a variety of west coast issuers. Her expertise includes water and sewer revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, lottery revenue bonds, lease-backed financings, sales tax revenue bonds, transportation revenue bonds, payroll tax revenue bonds, power revenue bonds as well as various other revenue bond financings. She serves as Morgan Stanley’s senior coverage officer for a variety of clients including water districts, counties, cities, state agencies and transportation districts. Her recent prominent financings include transactions for the City of San Diego Water System, San Diego County Water Authority, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento County, State of California, State of Oregon, Oregon Department of Transportation, and many others. Her experience has involved refunding transactions, new money financings, fixed and variable rate financings and transactions using innovative structures including SIFMA index bonds and put bonds. Margie received both an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA from Stanford University.

La-Verna Fountain currently serves as the Vice President for Construction Business Services and Communications at Columbia University in the City of New York. As Vice President, Ms. Fountain helps lead the University’s outreach and communications efforts regarding construction business opportunities and activities. She helps lead the Corporate Alliance Program/Columbia University joint Certificate Mentorship program for Minority, Women and Locally-owned construction-trades businesses.Ms. Fountain served as part of the University’s negotiation team on two of the University’s top construction initiatives - the planned Manhattanville campus and Bakerfield/Boathouse Marsh project at the Campbell Athletics Complex. Prior to assuming her role in Facilities, Ms. Fountain served as the Associate Vice President of Public Affairs where she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Columbia’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs and as the public affairs liaison on the University’s expansion project, working closely with media, government officials and community members.In addition to her work at the University, Ms. Fountain if President and founder of the Defiant Hope Consulting and Training Company. For the past 25 years, she has provided motivational speeches, training and facilitation on topics of conflict resolution, cultural diversity/human awareness, nonviolence as a way of life, working with teenagers, spirituality in the workplace, staff development and organizational development.

Rebekah Scheinfeld is the Chief Planning Officer and Senior Vice President at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Rebekah is responsible for the CTA’s strategic planning for major capital projects and new transit service, business development partnerships with the private sector, and the agency’s federal, state and local capital grants program. Before joining the CTA, Rebekah was an attorney at the law firm of Mayer Brown, where she focused on state and local government law, representing public and private sector clients in a variety of transactional, legislative and regulatory matters including zoning and land use changes, design and construction of major public projects, and public-private partnerships for infrastructure assets. Previously, Rebekah also worked for East Lake Management & Development Corp. as a Senior Development Manager of mixed-income housing and for the Commissioner of the New York City Parks Department as Director of Government Relations and Operations Coordinator for operations, planning and capital projects. Rebekah received her BA in Urban Studies from Brown University and both her JD and MBA from Northwestern University.

Mary Glancey has 18 years of securities industry experience including nearly 15 years in the Compliance Department at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. Ms. Glancey began her career at Janney as a branch examiner and became the manager of private client (formerly retail) compliance upon graduating from law school in 2003.In 2008 Ms. Glancey moved into the newly formed capital markets compliance department as the manager of fixed income compliance. In this role, Ms. Glancey is responsible for oversight of the taxable sales and trading, municipal sales, trading and underwriting and public finance departments.Ms. Glancey earned a BS from St. Joseph's University and JD from Widener University School of Law. Mary has the series 7, 63, 9/10, 14 and 53 licenses and is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.