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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    Susan Ehrlich joined H&R Block in November 2011 as President of H&R Block Financial Services. In this new role, she leads the company's efforts to grow its H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard program and all other forms of financial services offered to its retail and digital tax clients. In addition, she has direct oversight of H&R Block Bank of which she is also a Board member. Ehrlich joined H&R Block after a 20 year career in key leadership roles developing and delivering payment and credit solutions for JP Morgan Chase, Sears Financial Services, WaMu Card Services (Providian Financial), and Citibank. Ehrlich has been recognized three times by American Banker magazine as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance. She serves on the board of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, the nation's leading authority on financial services for underbanked consumers, and served on the Federal Reserve's Consumer Advisory Council until June 2011.An avid golfer, traveler, and wine enthusiast, Susan enjoys spending time in the Bay Area's not home watching Top Chef!

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    Chris A. McWilton is president of U. S. Markets for MasterCard Worldwide. In this capacity, Mr. McWilton oversees all of the company's U. S. activities including sales, business development, business strategy, and relationship management for card issuers, merchants and merchant acquirers. Prior to being appointed president of U. S. Markets in 2009, he served as president of Global Accounts, where he managed relationships on a global basis for the company's largest customers. He is a member of the company's Executive Committee.Mr. McWilton joined MasterCard in 2003 as corporate controller and was appointed chief financial officer in October of the same year. As CFO, he was responsible for all financial functions, including financial reporting, investor relations, planning, treasury, tax, and new markets and investments. Mr. McWilton led the effort to make MasterCard SOX 404 compliant and helped complete the company’s successful initial public offering (IPO) in May 2006. MasterCard’s IPO was the largest domestic IPO of 2006 and the 12th largest domestic IPO in U.S. history at the time.Prior to joining MasterCard, Mr. McWilton had a 22-year career with KPMG, where he specialized in financial and SEC reporting and was an SEC Reviewing Partner.Mr. McWilton earned a bachelor's degree in business administration in accounting, summa cum laude, from St. Bonaventure University and is a certified public accountant.

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    Mr. Wesselink is the retired Chairman and CEO of Metris Companies, a consumer financialservices company that was acquired by HSBC in December, 2005. He joined Metris as chieffinancial officer in 1998, was promoted to vice chairman in 2000, and was appointed CEO in2002.Before coming to Metris, Wesselink was with Advanta Corp., which he joined in 1993 as seniorvice president and chief financial officer. Prior to Advanta, he spent 23 years at HouseholdInternational. He was named HFC’s chief financial officer in 1982 and a senior vice president in1986.Wesselink was a board member of the American Financial Services Association (AFSA),MasterCard International (U.S. Board), Saxon Capital, Inc., CFC International, Central Collegeand the National Institute of Consumer Credit at Marquette University. He currently serves as adirector of Flex Fund Financial Services, a privately held used car floorplaner and is Chairman ofthe Board of Central College, Pella, Iowa. He is the past chairman of the Northbrook (Illinois)Chapter of the American Cancer Society and holds memberships in the Economic Club ofChicago and the Financial Executives Institute. He is a past recipient of the AFSA DistinguishedService Award.Wesselink earned a bachelor’s degree from Central College and an M.B.A. from Michigan StateUniversity.

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    Angelo J. Valletta currently serves Sun National Bank as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Head of Bank Operations. He has leadership responsibility for the organization’s Technology, Bank Operations, and two revenue generating lines-of-business – ATM’s and Merchant Services. Additionally, Angelo is Chairman of the Bank’s Management Automation Committee, which consists of the most senior level leaders at the bank. Angelo has close to thirty years of progressively responsible managerial experience in diverse industries for companies ranging in size from small consulting firms to multi-national Fortune 100 companies. Valletta has a proven track record of developing and building effective internal/outsourced and distributed teams, and is a turn-around specialist in operations and customer service. Most recently, Angelo was named one of SmartCEO’s Top 10 Executive Leaders, was honored as one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, and was named CIO of the week by SearchCIO.com Angelo received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Temple University and his MBA from Philadelphia University and serves on the board of directors for Hopeworks in Camden, NJ, and several advisory boards, most notably Evanta, CIOFinanceSummit.com, Paetec, FirstData, and is Chairman of the FidelityIS-Bankway large company synergy group. Angelo also serves on various committees and mentors students at Columbia, Philadelphia, and Temple Universities. Angelo is a former elected official that represented his district to Gloucester County, NJ, and has served as Chairman for Sun’s United Way campaign