Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsHunter Woolley is Vice President, Co-brand Business Development and has been in this position since August 2012. He is responsible for co-brand business development efforts in the US, focused primarily on new-to-MasterCard programs across the T&E and retail verticals. He held various business development positions at American Express over a seven-year period, leading American Express to its first small business only co-brand in the US. He also spent a number of years at Partner Advisors, a leading co-brand consultancy. Hunter holds a Bachelor�s Degree from Princeton University and a Master�s Degree in Business from Columbia Business School.��
Ed spearheads the Operations Consulting practice for the firm. This encompasses leading a wide variety of engagements including:� process reengineering, collection reviews, assessing and developing policies and procedures, organizational design and more. Ed previously managed many of ACG�s Industry Roundtables, exposing him to challenges and best practices across a range of functions, including how to balance compliance risk with business delivery. Ed�s experience working for direct lenders includes a wide range of strategic and leadership roles across an array of key players, including Citibank, Bank of America, and Compucredit. He earned a BS in Business Administration from the State University of New York and an MBA in Finance from Hofstra University.
Russell Taga is currently Chief Operating Officer at Coin, Inc. He started his career in the Security practice at Accenture and has gone on to build a wide range of systems and products at both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Coin,�Russ�was most recently Vice President of Engineering at Hotel Tonight.
Joe LaTorre is the Director of Innovation at Employment Technologies Corporation (ETC). He leads ETC�s research and product development group and is the company�s senior consultant. Joe has designed and directed the development of more than 100 custom simulations for employee hiring. His design team has earned an unprecedented five national �Top Product of the Year� awards for ETC�s highly accurate and engaging EASy Simulations�. Over the past 20 years, he and ETC have shaped the testing industry by creating and launching an entirely new category of tests: employment simulations.Joe holds an M.S. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Valdosta State University and has more than 20 years of global consulting experience. He is a contributing author of a book on the use of simulations in employment testing and has presented at national conferences related to advancing the science and accuracy of personnel selection.
Jeremy Gumbley is CTO at Creditcall.
Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay, where he drives the company's vision, strategy and growth. WePay�s payments API is built specifically for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. The platforms built on WePay empower millions of sole proprietors to start, fund and grow their businesses.
Sean Rodriguez is the senior vice president responsible for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's payments industry outreach efforts. Additionally, Rodriguez oversees the Federal Reserve System's Financial Services Industry Relations Program. He is responsible for coordinating engagement with payment industry stakeholders, ensuring key industry insights are fully vetted with Chicago District and Federal Reserve System financial services leadership, and marshaling resources to influence payments industry direction that is consistent with the Federal Reserve�s refreshed 2012�2016 strategic direction.Prior to this assignment, Rodriguez had responsibility for sales and marketing for the Federal Reserve System. In this role, he oversaw the System�s marketing and communications functions and the Federal Reserve�s regional and national account management programs, a function which he established for the System�s largest customers. He has worked in all of the Bank�s operating and support functions in the Denver and Los Angeles locations and has served on numerous Federal Reserve System and industry work groups throughout his thirty year career at the Bank. Rodriguez received a B.A. from the University of Colorado, a Graduate School of Banking Certificate from the University of Wisconsin and is a Certified Cash Manager.
Richard Vague is currently managing partner of Gabriel Investments and the chairman of The Governor�s Woods Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organization. He is also the author of The Next Economic Disaster, a book with a new approach for predicting and preventing financial crises. Previously, he was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, and also co-founder and CEO of two consumer banks, First USA and Juniper Financial.Vague currently serves on the Penn Medicine Board and the corporate board of Heartland Payment Systems along with various other corporate, civic and charitable organization boards. He is also editor of the blog and email newsletter service Delanceyplace.com and of the website Debt-economics.org.







