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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    Dale Bonner is Chairman of Plenary Concessions, which holds Plenary Group’s project company portfolio in North America.From 2007 to 2011, he served as California's Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing. �As secretary, he oversaw the California Department of Transportation and represented the State in domestic and international affairs involving infrastructure, business regulation, trade and foreign investment. �He also chaired the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Public Infrastructure Advisory Commission, and served on numerous other infrastructure boards and commissions.He is credited with championing California’s design-build and public-private partnership programs - advancing the Presidio Parkway public-private partnership, the Gerald Desmond Bridge design-build replacement project, and the Colton Crossing rail-to-rail grade separation, among other major projects.He is a 1990 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a 1987 graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in political science.

    As Senior Advisor and Implementation Project Manager for the Build America Bureau, Jodie Misiak is coordinating the establishment of an innovative finance bureau within U.S. DOT, in accordance with the FAST Act transportation re-authorization legislation. Before the establishment of the Bureau, Ms. Misiak served as BATIC’s Director of Project Development, responsible for overseeing and coordinating the prioritization, tracking, and implementation of projects, from preliminary planning through financing. �Previously, as Director of Maryland DOT’s Office of Innovative Project Delivery, Ms. Misiak guided the Department’s P3 and other innovative finance initiatives, including all stages of project development, solicitation, and delivery. She served as MDOT’s point person for statewide efforts to strengthen and clarify P3 policies and processes, including the P3 Commission that was convened in 2011 and the P3 law that was enacted in 2013. Prior to joining MDOT, she held positions in Economics and Business Solutions at Halcrow and in the Municipal Securities at UBS, specializing in transportation finance. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and dual master’s degrees in City Planning and Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.�

    Stephanie Wagner is a partner in the Government & Infrastructure practice of the Chicago office. She practices in the areas of state and local government law, infrastructure development and public finance, representing public and private sector clients in a wide array of transactional, legislative and regulatory matters.Stephanie has extensive experience in complex government transactions, particularly in the infrastructure sector. Stephanie advises on path-breaking road, bridge, airport, parking, mass transit, convention center and social infrastructure concession and public-private partnership transactions, serving in different transactions as either government entity counsel, sponsor's counsel or lenders' counsel.Stephanie has broad experience in public finance transactions. She has represented clients in tax-exempt financings as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, issuer's counsel, conduit borrower's counsel and credit enhancer's counsel and has participated in short-term and long-term financings involving educational institutions, 501(c)(3) corporations, multi-family housing, healthcare providers, transportation and professional sports stadiums.Stephanie also represents clients in various state and local government matters, including in the areas of ethics, public utility tax issues and legislative drafting and statutory interpretation.�

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    Bryan Kendro formed Public Solutions and Strategies following more than a decade of public sector service at both the State and Federal level holding senior positions in government and advising policy makers on a variety issues.Most recently Bryan was the director of the Office of Policy & Public Private Partnerships at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.� Under his leadership, the Commonwealth reached financial close on the Rapid Bridge Replacement P3 Project, which will replace 558 bridges across the Commonwealth in the next 3 years.Before joining the Corbett Administration and PennDOT, Bryan was a long time aide to Congressman Jim Gerlach both in Washington D.C. and as his District Director in Pennsylvania.� While in Washington he served as a senior policy advisor and liaison to the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

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    Mr. Rountree became Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Airports Authority) in December 2010. The Airports Authority is responsible for the management and operation of Ronald Reagan National Airport, Dulles International Airport, the Dulles Toll Road, and construction of the Metrorail Silver Line extension. Mr. Rountree joined the Airports Authority’s Office of Finance in 2005 and has served as the Acting Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer and the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the Authority.Mr. Rountree oversees the Departments of Accounting and Financial Reporting, Budget (including airline rates and charges), Treasury and Investment Services, Procurement and Contracts, and Debt Management. Prior to joining the Airports Authority, Mr. Rountree was appointed Director of Finance for the City of Richmond, Virginia in 2000. While with the City of Richmond, he also served as Deputy Director of Finance and as the Chief of the License, Assessment, and Tax Audit.Mr. Rountree has held positions as Audit Director with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Auditor of Public Accounts, and with the Commonwealth’s former Department of Information Technology. Mr. Rountree graduated from of Virginia Commonwealth University with a B.S. Economics and concentration in Accounting. He is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Virginia.

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    Matt Townsend is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Houston Airport System (HAS).� As CFO, Townsend works closely with the various HAS divisions to ensure the overall financial health of the Houston Airports.� He helps the leadership team establish budgetary priorities and maintain fiscal discipline.Townsend joined HAS after serving more than eight years as an Associate Director for LeighFisher, a global management consulting firm.� In that role, Townsend carried out financial, economic and operational analyses for a number of airport clients.� Townsend is a graduate of Texas Christian University and the University of Maryland.�

    Karen Hedlund works with federal, state and local transportation agencies as well as private companies to facilitate public-private financing and development of rail transportation infrastructure, including station development projects. She is currently providing federal financing advice to Amtrak on the $20 billion Gateway Project, including a new Hudson River rail tunnel, and expansion of Pennsylvania Station. She is currently advising the Texas Central high speed rail project that will connect Dallas and Houston, and the High Desert Corridor project that will provide a 60 mile connector between the Xpress West rail project from Las Vegas to the California high speed rail project at Palmdale..Prior to joining WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, Ms. Hedlund served as� Deputy Administrator and Chief Counsel of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), providing leadership for the administration’s $12 billion high-speed rail grant program, including a the $3 billion investment in the California High Speed Rail project.As Deputy Administrator she also oversaw the agency’s RRIF loan program, which was amended in the recently adopted FAST Act to permit financing of transportation oriented development projects.Prior to her appointment to USDOT, headed the East Coast infrastructure practice of the Nossaman law firm, advising state and local governments on alternative financing and procurement of transportation projects.Her law degree is from Georgetown University, and her bachelors was earned at Harvard.�

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    David Gloss joined BMO Capital Markets in 2011 and has ten years of infrastructure and public-private partnership advisory experience.� Since joining BMO, he has gained extensive infrastructure and project finance experience for buy-side and sell-side clients including his current role advising the Maryland Department of Transportation and Maryland Transit Administration on the delivery of the Purple Line Light Rail P3 Project.� Additional notable experience includes the Midtown Tunnel P3 Project, Seminole State College Altamonte Springs Campus P3 project, Maui Memorial Medical Center P3 project, Trinidad Rapid Rail Project, as well as supporting and executing lending and underwriting activities for infrastructure clients such as the City of Chicago and Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.

    Russell Goings �is a Senior Vice President� for HSE located in� Los Angeles . Mr. Goings has over 30� years of municipal financing experience� serving municipal bond issuers across the United States , including the States of California, Colorado and Ohio as well as� numerous cities, counties and political subdivisions. Prior to joining� HSE, Mr. Goings worked for Lazard Freres, First Albany Capital (now Jefferies) and First South West Securities amongst others.Mr. Goings has� served as� underwriter and or financial advisor for more than $50 billion of municipal securities for various issuers is a variety of sectors� including� general purpose, redevelopment, industrial development, education,� affordable housing , light rail, airports and seaports.Mr. Goings has extensive experience working with transportation issuers�� having served as lead financial advisor to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority , the� Port of Los Angeles� for 6 years and�� the� San Diego Unified Port District for 16 years� as well as the� Los Angeles Department of Airports and the San Diego International Airport . Additionally he has� severed� as� co senior manager for BART and for the� San Francisco Bay Area Transit Financing Authority.Mr. Goings attended the University of Las Vegas Nevada where he majored in hotel and restaurant� management� and has completed course work with the New York Institute of Finance� and the USC School of Public Administration.�� Subsequent to serving as Financial advisor to the Port of Los Angeles Mr. Goings was asked to� and did serve� on Mayor Rirdon’s World Port Los Angeles task force . He is also the former chairman of the Rebuild LA Public Finance sub-committee.� He presently serves on the Board of trustees for the Sothern California Institute of Architecture� He holds Series, 24, series 53, Series 7 and series 63 licenses.�

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    Rick Holzinger manages investor relations for BAM. Rick has been a participant in the fixed income markets for over 25 years. He joins from FTI Consulting Inc., where he established a Structured Finance advisory business, providing advice and services related to valuation, structuring and disposition of a wide variety of structured products. Before that, from 2004 to 2008, he was Managing Director of the Corporate Finance Group at FSA. He joined FSA in 1996 as Head of the Asia-Pacific business. Prior to joining FSA, Rick was a Managing Director, in the Securitization and Project Finance group at Bankers Trust Company in Hong Kong and New York. Earlier positions included developing project and lease financings at PaineWebber, Inc. and an Associate position at Dewey, Balantine, Bushby Palmer and Wood. He holds a B.A. in Government and Economics from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin.