Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

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.

In 1999, John Horsley became Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), which advocates policies and provides technology leadership on behalf of States to improve the Nation’s transportation system. Previously, Horsley was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation where he served from 1993 to 1999 as the Department’s advocate for intermodal policies, quality of life initiatives and as liaison to State and Local Governments, US Congress, and transportation constituencies. A native of the Northwest, Horsley was elected to five terms as County Commissioner in Kitsap County, a community just west of Seattle. He is a graduate of Harvard, an Army veteran, a former Peace Corps volunteer and Congressional aide, and did graduate study at Georgetown. He is Past President of the National Association of Counties, and was founding Chairman of the Rebuild America Coalition.

Eric Kim is a director in Fitch Ratings higher education and non-profit institutions group. Eric joined Fitch in March 2007, and he works on credit analysis for new bond offerings, as well as surveillance of existing ratings in a variety of sectors including higher education & non-profits, tax-backed, water and sewer, healthcare, and public power. Eric was previously chief of staff for the first deputy commissioner at the New York City (NYC) Taxi and Limousine Commission for two and a half years. He also worked as a project manager at the Lower Manhattan Borough Commissioner’s Office in the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT). Eric began his career as a NYC Urban Fellow, providing research and analytical support in the commissioner’s office at the DOT. Eric earned a BA from Brown University and an MPA with a public finance specialization from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University.