Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
  • 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.

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    Mr. Kammer currently serves as Vice President responsible for strategic digital initiatives at Fifth Third Bank.� As part of the Digital Delivery team, he is responsible for managing the strategic direction, execution, and experience of Fifth Third’s mobile banking app, responsive online banking website, and online account application services.Prior to this, Mr. Kammer was Senior Product Development Manager for deposit and fee income services.� Since joining Fifth Third, he has served in multiple operations and sales leadership roles. Mr. Kammer is also an active member of the Consumer Bankers Association Digital Channels Committee.

    Anthony Hsieh is a lifelong entrepreneur and the chairman and CEO of loanDepot, America’s lender.He is a consumer lending expert and architect of modern lending who has successfully navigated multiple credit and economic cycles spanning 30 years.He is known as an industry visionary and innovator for creating companies with new distribution models and business integrity delivered through a blend of high-tech, high-touch operational excellence.Hsieh's first company, loansdirect.com, brought the world its first online mortgage company, offering instant rate locks, disclosures, and loan documents.�As the first online mortgage company, loansDirect.com served consumer’s mortgage needs nationwide from one location with an efficient model never seen before. The company remained one of the most profitable and successful mortgage lenders in the 1990s. It was acquired by E*TRADE Financial in 2001.In 2002, Hsieh founded HomeLoanCenter.com, the first online lender to offer a full spectrum of home loan products including first and second mortgages, equity�lines of credit in all 50 states, real time interest rate quotes, and�4000+�lending products tailored to meet individual borrower needs. In 2004, HomeLoanCenter.com merged with IAC/Interactive subsidiary LendingTree, and Hsieh continued to lead the business for three years.Hsieh launched loanDepot in 2010, using an innovative model engineered to offer mortgage and nonmortgage products that is changing the way consumers leverage credit. The company employs 5,200+ people and has funded more than $60 billion+ loans since inception.loanDepot was the first online nonbank consumer lender to offer personal, purchase, refinance and home equity loans to borrowers across the nation.�

    Allan I. Mendelowitz is President of the ACTUS Financial Research Foundation.Previously Dr. Mendelowitz was the Co-founder and Co-leader of the Committee to Establish the National Institute of Finance (CE-NIF) where he formulated and executed the legislative and communications strategies of the CE-NIF that led to the creation of the Office of Financial Research by the Dodd-Frank Act.� In prior assignments he served as the Chairman and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the regulator of the Federal Home Loan Bank System; Executive Director of the U.S. Congressional Trade Deficit Review Commission, a congressionally appointed, bi-partisan panel; Executive Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States where he was responsible for overseeing all Export-Import Bank programs and operations; Managing Director for International Trade, Finance and Economic Competitiveness at the U.S. GAO, during which time he directed a large number of studies of the nation's international trade and finance programs and policies, and testified before the Congress of the United States more than 140 times.� Dr. Mendelowitz spent 1980 as the senior economist and representative of the Comptroller General with the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Board negotiating the terms of that Federal loan guarantee.� Prior to joining the GAO he was an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution and on the faculty of the Department of Economics of Rutgers University where he taught courses in urban and regional economics and international trade and finance.� Articles by Dr. Mendelowitz have appeared in the Journal of Business, the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Financial Times, the American Banker, and other publications.� Dr. Mendelowitz received an A.B. degree from Columbia University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Northwestern University.�

    Adrian Slobin is Vice President and Business Lead for SapientNitro’s Midwest Region, accountable for its clients that area as well as for the Chicago and Minneapolis offices. He owns SapientNitro’s innovation offering globally, which includes an innovation lab, an investment arm, and formal relationships with university innovation centers. Broadly speaking, he is focused on the continued evolution of digital experiences across channels – including mature ones like mobile, as well as emerging ones like in-store digital, virtual and mixed reality, and wearable computing.Adrian has more than 15 years of digital marketing, innovation design and e-commerce experience working with Fortune 500 clients around the globe, including: Alcoa; Staples; GM; Comcast; General Mills; Wells Fargo: United Health Care, Medtronic, U.S. Bank, and Target. �He is particularly focused on the continued evolution of digital across mature and emerging channels - including .com and mobile, but also in-store and in-home.Prior to joining SapientNitro, Adrian was on the faculty at Northwestern University and conducted cognitive science research at the University of Pennsylvania.Adrian graduated from Swarthmore College with High Honors and has a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University.

    Richard joined Citi and the Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) global leadership team in May of 2012 as the Global Head, Commercial Lending Management (CLM), reporting to the CCB CEO.� He has strategic and direct responsibility for all lending functions dedicated to CCB, and has focused on significantly simplifying and enhancing the overall client experience by redesigning the overall End-to End lending process.� Since December 2014 global turn around times had fallen by 69%, productivity had increased by over 30% and had overseen the design and implementation of CitiRisk Commercial, a platform which enables the absolute digitization of all lending and credit activities.Richard also leads the Digital Transformation for CCB, with overall responsibility for business architecture, CRM, internal user experience and client experience.� Focusing on enhancing RM and Client experience, and digitizing CCB from the inside out CCB has achieved some early successes in moving to a digital operating model.Prior to joining Citi Richard established and led Standard Chartered’s Small to Medium Banking Centre of Excellence in North East Asia, where he was responsible for driving commercial objectives and end-to-end responsibility for the NEA SME business.� In addition, he was the global business lead for advanced credit risk modelling for micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses and the Standard Chartered representative and expert advisor and speaker to the IFC, UK Government and G20 Subcommittee on SME Finance.Preceding his return to Asia, Richard was the Regional General Manager for the SME Banking businesses at Standard Chartered covering Africa and the Middle East for six years, with ancillary responsibility for the consumer treasury business in the same geography.� He started his career with Standard Chartered in 1997 after initially working for a Canadian retail bank.�Richard has managed and led businesses, functions and large scale programmes across more than 40 countries, and has lived and operated from Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.Having met with customers, front line staff and regulators across Asia, Africa, North & South America and the Middle East, he has acquired a well-developed sense of the needs, wants and demands of SME and MM businesses and for the structural enablers at both a business and institutional level.A Canadian and British citizen, Richard holds an MSc in International Marketing from StrathclydeUniversity and is a Chartered Marketer and Full Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is a Full Member of the Chartered Management Institute.

    Aracely Paname�o works on financial services issues impacting the financial securityand�well-being of Latinos�and�other communities of color. Since 2004, Aracely has helped formulate policy recommendations, foster stakeholder coalitions,�and�educate decision makers. Her expertise in financial services is in mortgages, auto, payday lending,�and�student loans. Located in the DC office, Aracely also authors Enfoque, a quarterly Spanish-language newsletter focusing on issues impacting Latinos in financial markets. She serves as an advisor�and�is a member of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development's Experts of Color Network/Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative.Prior to joining CRL, Aracely worked with Latina women's health, migrant workers, education,�and�immigration issues.

    Pieter van den Berg is a New York-based partner in the Financial Institutions practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He leads the Corporate Banking segments for North America, and has led numerous assignments on the topics of growth strategy, coverage model, pricing & sales force effectiveness, and corporate development. He recently coauthored BCG’s article "Digital in Corporate Banking Reaches the Tipping Point". Pieter holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Law degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He joined BCG in 2001.

    Glenn Bolstad develops and executes Appway's expansion strategy throughout North America. With over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry, Bolstad has held various senior sales positions on Wall Street. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA in International Business.�

    Maureen Burns is a partner in Bain & Co.’s financial services practice.