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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    Raj Date is the Managing Partner of Fenway Summer LLC, a Washington, DC-based venture investment firm focused on financial services.Raj is the chairman of the investment committee for the firm's venture capital affiliate, Fenway Summer Ventures. Raj serves on the Boards of Directors for two Fenway Summer-sponsored startups: a mass-market credit card venture. FS Card, and a wholesale mortgage originator, Ethos Lending. He also serves as a Director for a number of other innovative, high-growth firms in consumer finance, including Prosper, the peer-to-peer lender; Circle, the digital currency firm; College Avenue, a startup private student lender; and Kensington Vanguard, a national title insurance agent.Through his role as a senior adviser to the Promontory Financial Group, Raj counsels a select group of banks, finance companies, and financial sponsors on strategic, financial, and regulatory issues.For Raj, Fenway Summer is the latest chapter in a long and varied career in and around U.S. financial institutions � as a senior policymaker, as a bank executive, and on Wall Street.Raj was the first-ever Deputy Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). As the Bureau�s second-ranking official, he helped steward the CFPB�s strategy, its operations, and its policy agenda. He also served on the senior staff committee of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, and as a statutory deputy to the FDIC Board.Before being appointed Deputy Director, Raj acted as the interim leader of the new agency, serving as the Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. He led the CFPB for most of the first six months after its launch.Before his time in public policy, Raj was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group at Deutsche Bank Securities, where he led the firm�s investment banking coverage for the largest U.S.-based banks and thrifts. His client work focused on calibrating credit deterioration, evaluating capital-raising alternatives, and generating liquidity. Before that, Raj was Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Development at Capital One Financial, where he led M&A development efforts across the U.S. banking and specialty finance markets. He began his business career in the financial institutions practice of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He has also served as an attorney in both private practice and government service.He is a graduate of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley (highest honors) and the Harvard Law School (magna cum laude).

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    David Owen is Bank of America's Online, Mobile, Fraud and Claims Executive. He manages operations for online and mobile platforms and online sales and service adoption. Owen leads design, development and delivery of the digital user experience and capabilities. Online Banking customers conduct more than one billion transactions per year through the website and Bank of America leads the industry in the Online and Mobile Banking Distribution. Owen also leads the Claims and Fraud Centers of Excellence responsible for managing overall claims and dispute processes, risk and compliance for credit cards, ATM/Debit, payments, ACH and check fraud. Owen manages and balances fraud prevention, detection & recovery control.Previously Owen served as the Payments and Products executive for Bank of America. He developed and managed products and solutions that provided customers with payment choices. This included checking, debit, prepaid, ACH, wires and eProduct solutions. Owen also managed the enterprise relationships with the card payment networks.Owen has also served as the Consumer and Small Business Checking and Debit executive where he was responsible for the bank's checking, debit and online products. Prior to running these businesses, Owen briefly served as the Mass Affluent Sales & Service executive. During this time Owen worked with the Global Wealth and Investment Management team on the segmentation and target state business model for Mass Affluent customers, the migration of elements of the Premier Banking & Investments business into the Consumer Bank and rationalized the Merrill Lynch and Bank of America phone-based planning capabilities.Previously, Owen served as the LaSalle Transition executive, responsible for the integration of LaSalle Bank into Bank of America. Prior to that, Owen served as the National Channel Integration executive responsible for the company's retail distribution channels (banking center and ATM), merchandising, and distribution/channel strategy. He also was the Deposits and Debit Strategy and Marketing executive, responsible for marketing, advertising and communications efforts across consumer deposits and debit. During that time, his team launched a number of new products, including SafeSend(r) and Keep the Change(r).Owen joined Bank of America in 2003 in Business Development, where he led a team responsible for driving key strategy and growth projects for the Consumer Bank.Before coming to Bank of America, Owen was a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton's Financial Services practice in New York. During his seven years at Booz Allen he worked on a range of strategy, marketing and cost re-engineering projects for major credit card companies, cash management businesses and global corporate and investment banks. He worked on a number of international assignments in London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.Owen received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a master's in business administration from George Mason University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Ordnance Officer's Basic Course and the U.S. Army Airborne School.

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    As Regional Marketing Manager at Morton's The Steakhouse, Jillian Beard executes company-wide marketing initiatives and business strategies from its corporate office to the 77 worldwide Morton's restaurants. She is also the dedicated marketing liaison for all locations designated within the "East Region" (approximately 40 restaurants), providing guidance with local restaurant marketing tactics, campaigns and current market challenges. Jillian is a leading member of Morton's Social Media Team, aligning and coordinating the company's marketing strategies, public relations campaigns and guest relations with its social media efforts. She oversees and manages Morton's national twitter handle while also coaching approximately 40 local Public Relations firms that tweet on behalf of Morton's local handles. She was the recipient of the Morton's "Employee of the Quarter" Award in 2010 and has also completed the first level of examination from the Guild of Sommeliers with hopes of becoming a Certified Sommelier in the future. She volunteers for CASA of Cook County (a non-profit organization that strives to protect abused and neglected children by providing them a voice in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive) as a marketing consultant.

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    Jodi Detjen has been a professor of management at Suffolk University since 1999. She co-authored a book in May, 2013 titled The Orange Line: How Women Can Integrate their Career, Life and Family. She conducts workshops, talks and consults on the principles from the book. Formerly, Jodi was a founding partner of a boutique consulting firm, the InTrinsic Group, guiding organizations to leverage their existing people and processes to maximize performance and long term impact. Jodi has been helping organizations develop their leaders for over 25 years. She teaches, consults and writes in areas of leadership development, systemic and organization change management, and how women can realize their power. Jodi teaches management at the MBA, Undergraduate and Corporate Education levels both online, in the classroom and internationally. Jodi teaches the way adults learn through interaction and application of the concepts. Prior to teaching and independent consulting, Jodi was an international management consultant based in London, England working with Global 1000 clients. Jodi focused on redesigning operations thereby realizing significant financial benefits. Her MA in International Development Policy is from Duke University and her B.Sc., from Virginia Tech in Management Science.