Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Ben Juergens is an Executive Director in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley and provides legal coverage for the Firm’s Public Finance Department. He previously practiced municipal securities law at Chapman and Cutler LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, serving as bond counsel to a variety of municipal issuers and underwriter’s counsel to various financial institutions. He is a past Chair and Vice Chair of the SIFMA Municipal Legal Advisory Committee.� Mr. Juergens received his B.A. from St. Olaf College and his J.D. from Cornell Law School.

Gigi Harrington has been with the San Mateo County Transit District in San Carlos, California, since 2004 and since 2009 has been the Deputy CEP for Finance and Administration. She is responsible for Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Contracts and Procurement, and for Safety, Security and Risk Management for the three business units managed by the District, Samtrans (bus service in San Mateo County), Caltrain (Joint Powers Board providing train service from San Francisco, through San Mateo to Santa Clara County) and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (a funding agency with a half cent sales tax measure).Prior to working at the District, Gigi spent four years at Muni in San Francisco as the Deputy General Manager for Finance and Administration. Before going to Muni, Gigi spent almost ten years working for the City of Palo Alto in various positions in the Finance Department.

Kevin Quinn is a graduate of the University of Maryland Business School (MBA), the University of Maryland Law School (JD) and Loyola College (BA). He has 30 years of public, corporate and real estate finance experience. After serving as both an attorney (1979-1982) and investment banker (1982-1994), Mr. Quinn launched Wye River Group to focus on providing financial advisory services to non-profit organizations, governments and businesses. A significant portion of the firms practice is focused on the financial and investment needs of organizations in the educational and healthcare sectors. Over the course of his career, Mr. Quinn has served as financial advisor or lead banker on 400+ assignments including over 200 financings for independent schools, charter schools, colleges and universities, hospitals and other types of healthcare organizations. In addition to his activities at Wye River Group, Mr. Quinn serves on the boards of directors of CareFirst, Inc., CareFirst of Maryland, Inc., Securities Finance Trust Company and Theranostics Health.

Christopher M. Klein is the Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California. He earned JD and MBA degrees at the University of Chicago, where he was Executive Editor of Law Review, and BA and MA degrees at Brown. He is admitted to the bar in California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Massachusetts. After completing service in the U.S. Marine Corps as an artillery officer in Vietnam and judge advocate, he was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, in private practice with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, and Deputy General Counsel-Litigation of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. In 1988 he was appointed a United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of California. He was appointed to the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel in 1998 and served for ten years. From 2000-2007, Judge Klein was a member of Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States and the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence. His bankruptcy-related publications include: Principles of Preclusion and Estoppel in Bankruptcy Cases, 79 Am. Bankr. L.J. 839 (2005) (co-author); Bankruptcy Rules Made Easy(2001): A Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that Apply in Bankruptcy, 75 Am. Bankr. L.J. 35 (2001).

Shin Mitsugi, Vice President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, has over ten years of experience working with various tax incentives and credits resulting in the retention, recruitment, and creation of jobs and operations in New York City by commercial tenants and developers. Mr. Mitsugi has also worked extensively in various tax-exempt bond financing programs, including the 501(c)(3) bonds, the Liberty Bond program and the Recovery Zone Facility Bond Program. Mr. Mitsugi is a graduate of NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (M.P.A.) and NYU’s College of Arts and Science (B.A.).

Frederick P. Schaffer is General Counsel and Senior Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs of The City University of New York. In this position, he is responsible for providing legal counsel to the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor and the University on a wide range of issues and supervising a legal department of 18 lawyers. Mr. Schaffer also serves as General Counsel to the CUNY Construction Fund, a public authority that finances capital construction at the University. Previously, Mr. Schaffer was a litigation partner in the law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, where he specialized in commercial and securities litigation and employment law. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schaffer served as Counsel to Mayor Koch, Chief of Litigation in the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York and Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. He also was an Associate Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Mr. Schaffer recently served as Chairman of the Legal Aid Society and is currently a Trustee of the Practising Law Institute. He has previously served as Chairman of NYC Public/Private Initiatives, Inc. and a Director of the University Settlement Society. He is also active in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he has served as a member of a number of committees, including the Executive Committee, the Nominating Committee and as Chairman of the Committee on Education and the Law. Mr. Schaffer received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Harvard College and his J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Francis L. Van Dusen, Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Schaffer was a recipient of one of the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Public Service from the New York State Bar Association

Raymond DiPrinzio is a Senior Vice President and Team Leader of the Infrastructure Finance Team at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. (SMBC). Based in New York, He is responsible for originating and arranging debt financing for infrastructure projects in North America. His twenty-six years of experience include project lending, investment banking and financial advisory engagements for a wide range of public and private use facilities and has provided funding for transportation, social infrastructure, environmental, energy generation, and telecommunication facilities with a particular emphasis on public private partnerships and Federal privatization. Among other engagements, he served as financial advisor to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program Office where he provided advisory services on seven TIFIA financings and successfully closed financings for the Departments of Energy, Defense, NIH and the IRS. His most recent financings include a new complex for McGill University Hospital in Montreal and the New Oakville Hospital in Ontario where SMBC acted as Mandated Lead Arranger. Most recently Raymond was Head of Project Finance at CIFG and has held senior project financing roles at Ambac, Scully Capital and Credit Suisse. Raymond holds a BA in History, with Honors, from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Columbia Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Structured Finance and a Member of the Committee on Revenue and Finance of the Transportation Research Board, part of the National Academies.

Michael K. Forde is a partner at The Forde Law Offices LLP. He was previously a partner in the law firm of Mayer Brown LLP, and was a co-chair of that firm�s Commercial Litigation practice. He has been a member of the Illinois International Port District since November 2011, and was elected its Chairman in December 2011. He was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Mr. Forde holds a B.A. and J.D. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Mr. Forde resides in the City of Chicago.