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 NewsJeff Meyers is a Director in the Structured Lending and Investments group of Citi Community Capital, a department within Citi’s Municipal Securities Division responsible for the bank’s impact investing and community development lending activities.� Since joining Citi in 2010, Jeff has been involved in the origination, structuring, closing and portfolio management of various structured debt and equity investments, including those in the affordable housing, education, healthcare and alternative financial services sectors.� Prior to joining Citi, Jeff worked in the Investment Banking and Debt Capital Markets divisions of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he focused on debt and equity financings for clients in the real estate, gaming and lodging sectors.�Jeff graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in Economics and Mathematics and holds his Series 7 and 63 securities licenses from FINRA.
Jim Lundy is the founder and CEO of Aragon Research. Mr. Lundy also serves as Lead analyst for collaboration, mobile, social, content management, user interface and knowledge. Mr. Lundy has over 29 years of technology and management experience as a vendor, user and analyst. Mr. Lundy spent twelve years at Gartner and where he formed and led the Collaboration and Social Software Research Team and also served as lead analyst for Enterprise Content Management and Corporate Learning. Mr. Lundy has extensive experience in product strategy, development and go-to-market plans.
Muneeb Ali is a co-founder at Onename and a PhD candidate at Princeton. He focuses on distributed systems and Bitcoin, and using the blockchain for decentralized applications. Previously, Mr. Ali worked on wireless networks, data centers, and Internet of things.
With a career spanning thirty years in the banking industry, Greg Shewmaker has focused his career as a growth-oriented private banker.� He began at Bank of Lexington, which was acquired by Liberty National Bank & Trust Company of Louisville.� His responsibilities covered branch management, consumer lending, commercial lending and private banking. ��He moved to Vine Street Trust Company as senior vice president - private banking manager.� When Vine Street was acquired by BB&T, he moved to take over the Private Banking Group at Central Bank, Kentucky�s second largest community bank.�Greg has drawn upon his banking experience to play an integral role in the development of Private Banking at Central Bank in Lexington, Kentucky over the last ten years.� A graduate of the Kentucky School of Banking, the Graduate School of Banking, The Cannon Trust School and the College of Financial Planning, Greg has specialized in private equity management.�Under his guidance Private Banking has reached $190 million in deposits and $175 million in loans, and now features an active Financial Planning Service to supplement the traditional banking relationships he manages. His group consistently leads the bank in sales and referrals to Wealth Management, Investments and Insurance and sets the standard for effective sales management.
Beverly Regan is manager of market planning for Credit Risk Decisioning with more than 15 years working in financial services working with financial institutions to develop strategies, improve ROI, and implement credit solutions to improve and enhance business processes and risk management practices.�Beverly began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she gained expertise in consumer compliance and regulation by participating in and leading various functional area reviews from auto, credit card, and mortgage lending to demand deposit accounts.��� While working in sales and trading at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta, she consulted with financial institutions of all sizes on improving credit underwriting to enhance products and services offered to consumers with a particular emphasis of integrating credit scoring and internal customer knowledge into� lending decisions and developing funding strategies to support growth into new product areas.Beverly holds an undergraduate degree in criminal justice from Northeastern University in Boston and a MBA in finance from Georgia State University�s Robinson College of Business
Keith is the Analytics Leader for the Analytics Resource Center (ARC) at Westfield Group, a regional Property & Casualty insurance carrier in Westfield Center, Ohio. ARC�s primary goal is to drive the execution of business, agent and customer analytics across Westfield, while aligning its work with the organization�s strategy and goals. The group works with business leaders at all levels to increase understanding, adoption and use of analytics solutions to better inform decision making.Before joining Westfield, Keith�s background included eight years in corporate banking with Wachovia Corporation and five years as a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting, focusing on process and operational improvement. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University (Kellogg) and a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Keith holds an Associate in Commercial Underwriting (AU) and Associate in Claims (AIC) designations.Previously at Westfield, he completed a nearly six-year corporate job rotation program in Claims, Business Intelligence and Commercial Lines Middle Market, holding front-line and leadership positions over that span. Before starting the rotation program, he was Director of Planning & Analysis for Westfield�s Agency Automation Group. He joined Westfield�s Information Technology unit in 2002 and worked on several projects related to agency automation and business planning. Keith served as a Westfield representative on the IIABA�s Agents Council for Technology (ACT) and the ACORD User Group Information Exchange (AUGIE). He also completed Westfield�s Emerging Leaders Program.
Social Solutions Specialist with over fourteen years of experience creating and implementing solutions including IT software and services with deep knowledge in social media analytics and proficiencies in business intelligence, security, compliance and enterprise application solutions.
Don Davis is a Principal and Portfolio Manager of Prime Meridian Capital Management, an investment management firm specializing in online P2P/marketplace lending strategies. As a seasoned industry veteran and skilled portfolio manager, Mr. Davis applies his knowledge, conservative management principles, and hands on expertise to the day-to-day management of� Prime Meridian Income Fund, a P2P consumer lending fund with one of the longest established track records in the burgeoning P2P lending space; and the Prime Meridian Small Business Lending Fund, which specializes in P2P lending for high quality collateralized small business loans backed by creditworthy personal guarantees.� Mr. Davis is also a principal of Novus Investments, LLC (“Novus”), a boutique alternative investment management firm, and was previously the #1 ranked futures trader in the US for risk adjusted return over both a 5 and a 7 year period. Mr. Davis is also a recognized speaker in the marketplace lending institutional investing space recently featured at: Bloomberg, LendIt, American Bankers Association, Forbes, IMN, Emerging Manager Forum, AltInvest, LendAcademy, the P2P Lending Investing Summit; and John Lothian News. Mr. Davis resides in the San Francisco Bay area and is actively involved in local charities with a special interest in assisting disadvantaged children, the disabled, and veterans.
Steve Allocca is Vice President and General Manager of Credit globally for PayPal. At PayPal, he manages a multi-billion credit business in the U.S., leads the effort to expand PayPal Credit globally, and presides over PayPal's entry into business lending. Steve also founded and previously served as President and CEO of Loan Science, LLC, a $330 million Austin-based company that is one of the leading providers of loan portfolio analytics and management for banks, insurers, education companies and investment firms. Today, Steve also serves as Chairman of Loan Science, LLC.Steve's career spans more than two decades in the financial services industry. The first three years of his career were spent at First Chicago Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) where, among other things, he designed and instituted a new cash flow and valuation model that was subsequently used to invest and hedge a $1 billion fund. He then spent 11 years at Wells Fargo, where he ran Customer Acquisition Marketing and attained the role of SVP, Personal Credit, responsible for an $8 billion division that included all of Wells Fargo's unsecured personal lending and transportation lending. He then served as President and COO of Education Finance Partners, the nation�s fourth largest originator of private student loans, before founding Loan Science.Steve has a BA in Economics from Washington & Lee University, where he graduated cum laude and was an Academic All Conference lacrosse player, and he has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg school at Northwestern University. Steve lives in the Lakeway, TX, near Austin, with his wife of 10 years, 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter.
Matt Bierman is Senior Vice President and National Small Business Banking Manager for Bank of the West.� In 2010, he was given the opportunity to build a business banking acquisition team from the ground up.� His current business unit footprint extends throughout the West in 19 states and includes over 150 people.� He specializes in retail and small & medium enterprise business banking, with emphasis on strategic, tactical and performance planning.� He brings experience of sales management, business development strategy, and customer retention to 13 expert managers within their respective regions for Bank of the West.Before building his team at Bank of the West, Matt Bierman worked as Regional Manager of Business Banking serving Colorado, Utah and Missouri at US Bank.� Prior to US Bank, he also spent 7 years with Commercial Federal Bank in Omaha, NE.Matt is a proud University of Nebraska Alumni and holds a bachelors� degree in Commercial Banking, Business Finance and a minor in Real Estate.� Matt lives in Castle Rock, CO, where you�ll find him building custom motorcycles, hiking the Colorado landscape and spending time with friends and family every chance he can get.








