Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Stephen Prosser is currently the Director of Business Development for My FA Network, Inc. d\/b\/a linkedFA, the leading social network for financial advisors and investors to communicate, connect, and share information. Currently, Mr. Prosser is focused on the development and growth of LinkedFA to provide a compliant social networking solution for the financial industry. With LFA, Mr. Prosser has developed the overall business plan, strategy, and financial forecasts, while fostering and developing business relationships for strategic alliances, Advisory Panel members, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising efforts.Having received a Bachelor’s degree in International Business and Strategy and a Master’s degree in Management and Entrepreneurship, he has since worked on developing the overall corporate strategy, structure, and direction of companies in industries such as social networking, finance, green technology, third-party logistics and education.

Katherine Fernandez Rundle was appointed State Attorney for Miami-Dade County in 1993. She has subsequently been re-elected five times to serve as State Attorney. She has a long history of involvement in her community and her state that dates back to her days at Miami Palmetto High School and her undergraduate career at the University of Miami. She went on to obtain her law degree from the prestigious Cambridge University in England. State Attorney Fernandez Rundle prides herself in being a career crime fighter. She has dedicated herself to every cause imaginable in her relentless commitment to keep our streets safe. She is recognized as a pioneer in the creation of numerous programs dealing with issues that affect our community daily such as teen truancy, domestic violence, child support, and victim’s rights. She also prides herself with her office attaining the highest percentage of convictions in cases involving public corruption in the State of Florida.As the legal arm of the 37 different police departments in our county, the office’s mission is to see that the guilty are convicted while the rights of the innocent are protected. The State Attorney’s Office prides itself in being the voice for every victim that is wronged by crime. The office is the fourth largest district attorney’s office in the nation with over 1,300 employees, 300 of them prosecutors also known as Assistant State Attorneys. In addition to seeing that justice is carried out, her office is the only prosecutor’s office in the state that protects the rights of children with the creation and enforcement of a strict child support program that annually processes over 90,000 cases. Other innovative programs to help prevent crime and provide rehabilitative opportunities such as Drug Court, the Juvenile Gun Offenders Program, and the Second Chance Sealing and Expungement programs have all been established under the direction of State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle.The State Attorney’s philosophical convictions include sharing her time, influence, and resources with her community that she is passionate about. She is a founding member and Vice-President of Women of Tomorrow, a mentoring program that looks to inspire and motivate young at-risk high school women. Ms. Fernandez Rundle is also very active in important organizations such as the Children’s Services Council, 5000 Role Models of Excellence, Amigos for Kids, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), Habitat for Humanity, and numerous others.

Vickie Edwards is a Genworth Financial Wealth Management Vice-\nPresident, Eastern Regional Director of Sales and Consulting. She\noversees fifteen Regional Consultants from Florida to Maine.Vickie has over two decades of experience in the financial services\nindustry, eighteen of those years spent on the advisory side of the\nbusiness. She spent nine years working with elite advisors in New\nEngland as an AssetMark\/GFWM Regional Consultant before being\npromoted to her current position in the wake of Genworth’s acquisition\nof AssetMark in 2006. In addition to Assetmark, Vickie’s previous\nemployers include Nuveen, InvestNet, and FundQuest. Vickie and her\nteam of consultants helped investment advisors raise $1.8 billion in new\nassets in 2009, and will help them raise $2.3 billion in 2010.Vickie’s passion lies in helping advisors create the practice of their\ndreams while maintaining the quality of life they desire.Vickie holds a BA from Ohio State University and FINRA Series 7, 63\nand 65 licenses. She will begin working toward her CFP designation in\n2010. She and her husband enjoy watching their three athletic children\nparticipate in various sports.

Elaine M. Leichter is Of Counsel in JMBM’s Taxation Trusts & Estates department. Advising, drafting and negotiating prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements grew from Elaine’s estate planning practice. Her personal agreements clients include business executives, family business owners (or heirs to a family business), entertainers, licensed professionals and high-net-worth families.

Tim Whiting is the Group Publisher for SourceMedia Inc.’s investment advisory publications; Financial Planning and On Wall Street. Prior to joining SourceMedia, he served as Corporate Relations Manager for the Financial Planning Association. Tim has over 20 years of publishing experience with consumer, association and business-to-business brands including; Journal of Financial Planning, The New Republic, Inc. Magazine, Scientific American, Good Housekeeping, and Pharmacy Times. Prior to entering the publishing field he served as a Senior Account Executive at Ketchum Advertising on leading national brands. He has diverse print, online and custom media experience from firms including; Medical Economics, Inc., Goldhirsh Group Inc, Scientific American, Inc., Hearst Corporation, and Hachette Filipacchi. Tim graduated from the University of Richmond in Virginia with a BA in Economics. He is an avid amateur musician and performs for local fund raisers and charities. Tim resides in Ridgewood, NJ with his wife and son.

Robert Powell is president and founder of Unison, LLC, a Swampscott, Mass.-based financial education, communications and consulting firm. He is the editor of Retirement Weekly, a Marketwatch-Dow Jones subscription publication and he writes two columns for MarketWatch.com, including On Retirement and Your Portfolio.Powell serves as the editor of the Retirement Management Journal and as an adjunct professor for the Boston University Center for Professional Education Online Retirement Management Analyst Program.He recently served as the Examination Workbook Editor for the Retirement Income Industry Association’s Retirement Management Analyst(sm) and as a lecturer at the Boston University-Financial Planning Association Lifecycle Investing for Financial Planners program. He also served as a content strategist to the Financial Planning Association, having played a key role in the development and launch of its Virtual Learning Center, Research Center and its public-facing website.Powell has also served as executive producer of "More Than Money," a personal finance television series in development from Connecticut Public Television & Radio and “The Truth About Retirement,” another television program in development from Connecticut Public Television and Radio. He was the co-author of “Decoding Wall Street,” an investment primer published by McGraw-Hill, and author "20 Tips for Retirement Investors,” published by MarketWatch.com.Powell formerly served as Managing Director at Acadient, where he was responsible for the Boston University Online Program for Financial Planners, a CFP® registered program, the Center for Fiduciary Studies' Accredited Investment Fiduciary™ Web-based Program, and the Lightbulb Press' 401(k) Basics Program. Previously, Robert served as director of marketing, training and education for FundQuest, an investment management firm, and president of FinStream.com, an online financial education company.From 1993 to 2000, he served as Managing Director and editor-in-chief of Boston-based DALBAR, Inc. where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm's multi-million dollar publishing company: Mutual Fund Market News, Variable Annuity Market News, The Journal of Mutual Fund Services, Registered Investment Advisor, Visionaries, and “Advice, Trust & Money.” Powell played a lead role in creating and developing CompuServe WOW!'s personal finance and business website, and TheRightAdviser, a joint venture between DALBAR and Microsoft Corp.'s MoneyCentral that enabled consumers to search for and select a financial advisor.Prior to joining DALBAR, Powell served for five years as personal finance and mutual funds columnist for The Boston Herald where he created "The Money Manager" column and co-wrote "On State Street." He has also served as a business reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and Boston Business Journal.Powell has extensive internet, broadcast, print and radio experience: His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Your Money. He has served as host or co-host of several television, radio and internet chat programs, including Consumer Portfolio on Boston Cablevision, Talk of New England on New England Cable News, The Money Manager on WMEX-AM Boston, and FundWire on AmericaOnline.Before becoming a financial journalist, Powell worked as a registered representative for DeanWitterReynolds. Powell was graduated with a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and a master's degree in journalism from Boston University College of Communication\/ School of Management.) Robert attended Boston University's Program for Financial Planners, a CFP® board-registered program.Powell serves or has served on the following boards: Jewish Journal Boston North; Swampscott Little League; the Nicholas Green Scholarship Fund, Inc.; Project SAVE Armenian Archives, Boston University Program for Financial Planners; Jewish Federation of the North Shore (Mass.) Interfaith Outreach Committee; NICSA Technology Committee, and Lynn Youth Hockey. He is a member of the Society of Business Editors and Writers. He lives in Swampscott, Mass. with his wife and four children, triplet sons and a daughter.

Jodi Perry is President of Raymond James Financial Services’ Independent Contractors Division. She began her career with Raymond James in 1994 and has had the opportunity to work with advisors in various capacities throughout her career of 20-plus years. She is a graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, holds Series 7, 24, 63 and 65 licenses, and is a Registered Corporate Coach with the World Association of Business Coaches.