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 NewsDominic A. Liberatore is the Deputy General Counsel for De Lage Landen Financial Services, Inc., a global provider of leasing and business finance solutions, including vendor finance.Mr. Liberatore has been practicing law for 28 years focusing in the areas of leasing and asset based lending, and has served in a variety of senior in-house legal positions with DLL, IOS Capital, Inc. (the captive finance subsidiary of IKON Office Solutions, Inc.), Copelco Financial Services Group, Inc. and the FDIC. Prior to going in-house, Mr. Liberatore was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City and Wolf Block in Philadelphia. Mr. Liberatore is currently serving as the Immediate Past Chairman of the ELFA Legal Committee and is a frequent speaker at industry events.Mr. Liberatore holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. from the University of Buffalo.�
Barry Rosenstock is a client-facing technical minded Product Manager, able to speak the language of IT and bring it to clients, while translating and scoping client requests back to product requirements and follow through to product rollout. Certified Scrum Product Owner, comfortable with Scrum, Agile, and XP environments.Mr. Rosenstock has a background in computer science and marketing, with a touch of entrepreneurship.� He has over eight years of project management experience. Mr. Rosenstock specializes in Agile, Scrum SCPO, Product Owner, User Stories, Product Management, SDLC, Business Analysis, Change Management, User Acceptance Testing, Beta Testing, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Report Development, Product Development, Excel VBA, Tableau Software, CPG, RMS.
Mr. Diehl joined Capital Southwest in 2014 and leads the firm's investment activities. He brings almost 20 years of experience in sourcing, structuring, and managing investments in a variety of industries. Mr. Diehl came to Capital Southwest from American Capital, Ltd., which he joined in 2001 and was a Managing Director since 2007. He has closed investments in 15 platform companies and numerous add-on acquisitions, representing over $1.1 billion of invested capital. Mr. Diehl’s investments have been in a variety of industries including industrial manufacturing, healthcare, business services, and consumer finance. Mr. Diehl earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree, with majors in Environmental/Geotechnical Engineering and Economics, from Vanderbilt University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Scion is a graduate of University of Hawaii and Catholic University of America School of Law in Washington DC.He is well experienced in investment banking in Asia Pacific legion and has been instrumental for the set up and the operation of Westwood Capital (Asia) Limited. His primary mission has been to transplant cutting edge financial solutions and business models to the new market in the legion over the last 15 years.He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan and Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam and spearheading alternative financing initiative in the legion including obtaining several core business model patents and forming alliances with key institutional partners.
Ted Hatfield is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Solebury Capital and Solebury Communications, a leading full-service� firm specializing in IPOs.� Prior to forming Solebury, Mr. Hatfield spent twenty years at Credit Suisse including fifteen years in the Equity Capital Markets group and nearly ten years as Head of the Equity Syndicate Department.
Donald Saxinger has been a bank regulator for over 24 years.��He is currently the team leader for IT and operations risk in the FDIC's Division of Risk management.��His role is to identify threats and risk trends related to cyber, payments, and operations in the financial sector through coordination with sector partnerships, law enforcement, trade associations, foreign regulators, examination activities, and the IT security industry and convert those risks into supervisory activities.��He has held various roles at the FDIC including being the lead developer of the FDIC's IT examination standards and procedures, designer of the FDIC’s IT examiner education program, Chief of the IT Supervision Section, Chair of the FFIEC Handbook Working Group, Case Manager, and IT Examiner. �
Marshall Phelps is a director and member of the business services group at Lazard Middle Market.� He has more than 12 years of experience advising private equity funds and public and private corporations in all phases of evaluating, planning and executing various M&A and securities transactions.�Recent representative transactions include advising AGDATA, a portfolio company of SFW Capital Partners, on its sale to Vista Equity Partners; Architectural Testing, a portfolio company of Wafra Partners, on its sale to Intertek; TDF Group (The Driving Force), a portfolio group of TriWest Capital Partners, on its sale to Marubeni; Strategic Outsourcing, a portfolio company of Clarion Capital Partners, on its sale to TriNet Group; Andrews International, a portfolio company of Audax Group, on its sale to U.S. Security Associates, a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs PIA; Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions on the divestiture of its Marketing & Publishing Services Division to Springer Science + Business Media; Learfield Communications, relating to the investment by Shamrock Capital Advisors; and Crowe Paradis Services Corporation, a portfolio company of Clarion Capital Partners, on its sale to Verisk Analytics.�Mr. Phelps received a juris doctorate from Fordham University School of Law and a bachelor of arts degree from Colgate University.
Ms. Maria Vello, CISSP, is CEO and President of the NCFTA, a 501.c.3 non-profit which provides a neutral, collaborative venue where global partners from industry, law enforcement, government, and academia come together, leveraging cross-sector resources and threat intelligence to more effectively analyze, correlate, and associate critical real-time intelligence against emerging cyber threats.�Prior to being appointed as CEO and President, Maria served on the Board of Directors of the NCFTA from 2002 - 2012 and as the Board Secretary for four years.With more than 25 years of experience in the design, integration, and implementation of global corporate systems, security, and networks, Ms. Vello has been responsible for integrating security best practices and raising awareness levels at every level in every organization for which she has worked.�Maria received her B.A. from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and completed post-graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.� She has also attended numerous executive leadership and management trainings, including Carnegie Mellon-Software Engineering Institute’s certification program in the delivery, facilitation, consulting, and training of the Institute’s OCTAVE methodology.� In addition to being a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Maria is also certified in the RAM-W physical security certification for the water industry, which is one of our nation’s critical infrastructures.Maria’s achievements have been recognized by the AT&T Leaders Council, and she was also named to the top ten women in Cloud in 2014.
Tim Spence serves as chief strategy officer, responsible for all aspects of strategic planning, including mergers and acquisitions.� He assumed this position in September, 2015.He joined Fifth Third from Oliver Wyman, where he was a senior partner in the Retail and Business Banking practice, providing advice on strategy, innovation and performance improvement to executives at the world’s largest financial institutions. His background also includes consulting in the wholesale banking, wealth management and payments businesses. Spence served as the firm’s Midwest Market leader.Prior to joining Oliver Wyman in 2006, Spence held management positions in sales and marketing, corporate development and finance at two early-stage technology firms.Spence earned bachelor’s degrees from Colgate University in Economics and English Literature.Spence has been active in the industry, serving as chairman of the American Banker’s Marketing and Innovation Symposium. He has conducted research and written extensively on the evolving financial services landscape.


