Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

H. David Prior is a partner in the Public Finance Department and a member of the Health Care, Housing, Higher Education, and P3/Infrastructure Groups, and the Climate Change and Sustainability Initiative. Mr. Prior has litigation and corporate finance experience, but has concentrated in public finance since 1970 and has extensive experience as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel in virtually every kind of tax-exempt financing. He has devoted substantial time to developing Ballard Spahr's tax-exempt health care and housing practice and has represented a number of state agency and local issuers of hospital and housing bonds throughout the United States. Mr. Prior has had primary responsibility for the firm's engagements by several regional and national hospital systems, including the Lehigh Valley Health System and the Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, and the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor and CSJ Health System, in their nationwide financings. He has represented the Idaho, Utah, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Puerto Rico housing agencies as bond counsel and has served as underwriter's counsel for the financings of the Oregon, Idaho, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts housing agencies. Mr. Prior has extensive experience with the City of Philadelphia and its issuing agencies and has served as bond counsel to the City of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Water Department, and the Philadelphia International Airport. He also has served as special finance counsel to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.

Peter J. Kiernan, Esq. is Of Counsel to the national law firm of Schiff Hardin LLP, specializing in Public Law. Mr. Kiernan served as Counsel to the Governor of New York State from 2008 � 2010 when the State was gripped with an unprecedented revenue crisis. Since 2011 Mr. Kiernan has been Chair of the New York State Law Revision Commission. Previously, Mr. Kiernan was Counsel to the Deputy Mayor for Finance during New York City�s infamous Fiscal Crisis of the mid 1970�s.Mr. Kiernan is Counsel to the Task Force on the State Fiscal Crisis chaired by former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker and former Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch. He has co-authored several Task Force reports on the Public Pension Funding Crisis.

Robert S. Shapiro is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the North Shore – Long Island Jewish Health System. He has held this position since August 2000. Mr. Shapiro’s responsibilities include oversight of financial affairs and other corporate operations including treasury, budget, financial and strategic planning, capital planning and access, insurance, investment and cash management services. Mr. Shapiro also serves as the administrative contact for several committees of the Board of Trustees.Prior to holding his present position, Mr. Shapiro has held the positions of Vice President Financial Operations and Director of Finance/Assistant Administrator since joining North Shore Health System in 1984. Mr. Shapiro began his career as a Senior Accountant with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York from 1976 to 1978. In 1978, he was a supervisor with Touche Ross & Company, before being appointed Assistant Director of Finance in Maimonides Medical Center in 1981.Mr. Shapiro is an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York where he teaches a graduate level course in Health Systems Finance.Mr. Shapiro received his Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1975. Mr. Shapiro is a Certified Public Accountant and a Fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

Mr. Bloom began his career in the public sector working for the City of New York and the Port of Seattle, where he managed a number of Port and Airport transactions. Since his investment banking career began in 1994, Mr. Bloom has focused on the west region and the transportation and energy sectors. Mr. Bloom has led the firm’s Public Sector Port and Airport focus group since 2009 and has recently led financings for the Ports of Seattle and Portland, LAX, the Houston Airport System, the Port of Long Beach, and the Maryland Port Authority among others.

Dr. Ellis has twenty-two years experience in urban planning, government/public affairs, transportation analysis, strategic planning, demographic analysis, socioeconomic impact assessment, economic policy analysis, and management. He also has six years teaching experience in Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. His recent projects include: Developing a defensible "value of time" methodology for the Texas Department of Transportation to use in litigating cases seeking liquidated damages from contractors; "U.S. Hwy. 59 Corridor Traffic Analysis Zone Study," under contract to the Texas Engineering Extension Service and Parsons Brinkerhoff Engineers; "Refinancing Texas Transportation," under contract to the Texas Transportation Institute and the Texas Department of Transportation. He has Ph.D. in Urban And Regional Science, Texas A&M University; M.U.P. in Urban Planning, Texas A&M University; and B.S., Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University.

Matthew is a vice president in Assured Guaranty’s Healthcare and Higher Education underwriting group. He is responsible for analyzing healthcare, higher education, and other not-for-profit organizations. He joined Assured in 2008 and has worked on multitude of municipal sectors. Prior to working at Assured Guaranty he worked for the bond insurance firm XL Capital Assurance. Matthew has a B.A. in economics from Hobart College and a MBA from Fordham University. He is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

Ken is a consulting actuary with the New York office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 1996. Ken has more than 30 years of pension and employee benefit consulting experience and provides advice in the design and implementation of comprehensive pension and welfare plans to both domestic and international companies; not-for-profit organizations; governmental employers; and multiemployer, union pension funds. Services to his clients include defined benefit plan funding and expense valuations, retiree medical expense valuations, experience studies, modeling of projected plan liabilities and costs, assisting bargaining parties during collective bargaining negotiations, plan terminations and mergers. He is a member of Milliman's Multiemployer Plan Strategic Planning Group. Ken is an expert in the areas of accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits, early retirement windows, and ERISA compliance and has been a speaker at professional and industry meetings.