Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Aaron Weitzman currently covers a myriad of municipal topics on the sell side for The Bond Buyer. He is primarily responsible for covering the sell-side of the muni market, and often contributes to the daily coverage of the primary and secondary markets. Aaron also focuses in on bond insurance and underwriting businesses. Previously, he wrote for the fantasy sports website Rotoballer and covered the flooring industry for Hearst Business Media. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English writing from the University of Pittsburgh.

Steven C. McCraw became the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety in August 2009 and also serves as the Governor�s Homeland Security Advisor. McCraw began his law enforcement career with DPS in 1977 as a Trooper in the Texas Highway Patrol and a DPS Narcotics Agent. In 1983, he became an FBI Special Agent and served in Dallas, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Tucson, San Antonio and Washington, DC. His assignments included Supervisory Special Agent, Organized Crime Unit Chief, Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Inspector-In-Charge of the South East Bomb Task Force, Special Agent in Charge, Director of the Foreign Terrorism Tracking Task Force and Assistant Director of the Office of Intelligence and Inspections. In 2004, McCraw retired from the FBI to become the Texas Homeland Security Director in the Office of the Governor where he served for five years. A native of El Paso, McCraw has Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees from West Texas State University.

Elected in November 2014, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar serves as Texas’ treasurer, check writer, tax collector, procurement officer and revenue estimator.Hegar is a sixth-generation Texan, who grew up farming land that has been in his family since the mid-1800s.Before becoming Comptroller, Hegar served in the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate, and also served as chair of the Sunset Advisory Commission, which works to eliminate inefficiency in government agencies.Hegar attended Texas A&M as an undergraduate, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts. He then attended St. Mary’s University, earning a Master of Arts and his law degree. At the University of Arkansas, he earned a Master of Laws degree.Glenn and his wife Dara have three young children — Julia, Jonah and Claire.

Horatio Porter joined NTTA as chief financial officer in May 2013. With oversight of a $800M annual operating budget and a $9.6B debt profile, he leads the finance, procurement and cash and debt management departments. During his brief tenure, NTTA has received recognition for fiscal transparency, produced clean financial audits, refinanced over $2 billion in debt, earned rating upgrades and recently won the Southwest Region Deal of the Year award from The Bond Buyer. Prior to NTTA, Porter served as the CFO for the city of Fort Worth. As a CPA, Porter also held various roles in the private sector.

Euriah Bennett is a Vice President of Municipal Finance for Fidelity Capital Markets, the institutional trading arm of Fidelity Investments providing trading, products and services to a wide array of clients and Fidelity businesses. Fidelity Investments is a diversified financial services firm that makes financial expertise broadly accessible to people investing their life savings, businesses managing their employee benefits and advisors investing their clients’ money. Since 1946, Fidelity has been helping people live the lives they want through its customer-centered approach, innovative technology and investment solutions.Every year the Municipal Finance Group is involved with hundreds of separate tax-exempt bonds and note transactions totaling billions of dollars. The Group seeks to provide market access to our investors and deliver market demand to municipal issuers.Mr. Bennett joined Fidelity in 2014 to expand the Group’s coverage of municipal issuers in Texas. Additionally, he provides guidance on initiatives in Capital Markets to expand investor opportunities in primary market municipal bond offerings.Mr. Bennett has over 20 years of public finance experience, having served public entities across the country as both an investment banker and commercial banker. He has senior and co-managed, privately placed, or executed derivative based transactions in virtually every sector of the public finance market including general infrastructure, healthcare, housing, transportation and higher education.Mr. Bennett has an A.B. in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA with a concentration in finance from Columbia Business School. He currently holds his 7 and 63 licenses�

Luke advocates for the Texas energy sector as part of the Texas Joint Association Education Initiative.Luke regularly travels across Texas & Washington, DC to advocate & educate elected officials and community leaders about the Texas Oil & Gas industry. Luke spent over 12 years on the political campaign circuit He is a native of Klein, TX and has a B.A. from the University of Texas.

Dan White is a Senior Economist at Moody�s Analytics, responsible for coordinating government consulting and regional economic research with an emphasis on fiscal policy. He regularly presents to clients and conferences, and has been featured in a number of print, radio, and televised media outlets, ranging from the Wall Street Journal to National Public Radio. He also has the pleasure of working closely with a number of governments in a consulting role. Before joining Moody�s Analytics, Dan worked as a financial economist for the New Mexico State Legislative Finance Committee in Santa Fe, where he forecast revenues and analyzed a wide range of policy issues concentrated around economic development, public investment, and debt management. Dan holds an MA in economics as well as undergraduate degrees in finance and international business from New Mexico State University.

J. Hutchison (Hutch) Bryan, Jr., CFA is Director of Fixed Income at South Texas Money Management. He is responsible for fixed income portfolio management of client portfolios, with an emphasis on tax exempt and taxable municipal bonds.Mr. Bryan started at South Texas Money Management in August 2009. Prior to that, he spent eight years at AIG Investments in New York. He was a Vice President and Municipal Bond Portfolio Manager in the Municipal Bond Group, which had over $50 billion in municipal securities under its management. He was also the lead portfolio manager of the SunAmerica Tax Exempt Insured Fund and the SunAmerica Municipal Money Market Fund. Mr. Bryan came to AIG as the result of the AIG's acquisition of American General, where he was a director and municipal bond portfolio manager responsible for over $800 million in municipal securities. Before American General, he spent nine years as Vice President at Chase Bank of Texas, including six years as a municipal credit analyst, trader and portfolio manager.Mr. Bryan earned a BBA and a BA in Ibero-American Studies from Southern Methodist University and a MBA from Texas A&M University. He is a CFA charterholder, and is a member of the CFA Institute, the Municipal Buyers Conference, and the CFA Society of San Antonio. Mr. Bryan also serves on the board of the Alamo Heights Little League.

Blair Anderson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Finance and Budget at the U.S. Department of Transportation serving as principal deputy to the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Anderson assists in the development and execution of DOT�s budget of more than $70 billion and is a key liaison for the Department to Congressional Committees of jurisdiction, the Congressional Budget Office, and outside stakeholders.� In addition he plays a key role in the execution and oversight of the Department�s $10 billion loan portfolio.� In this role Mr. Anderson manages the Secretary�s credit oversight team and the operations of the Credit Council, along with ensuring a consistent departmental credit policy across the modal innovative finance programs.� He is also a member of the Department�s senior management team advising the Secretary of Transportation on budget, policy, and management issues.Prior to joining the Department in April 2013, Mr. Anderson spent eight years as an advisor for Congressman John W. Olver, most recently staffing the Congressman in his position as Chairman then Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development. Notable achievements during this time included providing $10.5 billion for the High Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail grant program and the creation of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program. Mr. Anderson also served as Congressman Olver�s Legislative Director from 2007-2009.Mr. Anderson has a Bachelor�s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.