Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Jessica Akey is the Deputy Director of Capital Markets for the State of Illinois.� She manages over $35 billion of outstanding State of Illinois bonds and new debt issuances. She has participated in over $10 billion of bond sales, in a variety of Illinois credits including: general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, and unemployment insurance bonds.� Ms. Akey serves as Secretary of the Railsplitter Tobacco Settlement Authority board, where she manages $1.3 billion of outstanding tobacco bonds.� She holds a B.A. in International Economics and Spanish from the University of Kentucky and a M.A. in Economics from Roosevelt University, Chicago. �

Kurt Summers is a son of Chicago and a pragmatic problem solver who is passionate about serving the people of the city.As Chicago�s newest City Treasurer, Summers is the steward of the city�s $7 billion dollar investment portfolio and is responsible for maintaining records and accounts of the city�s finances while ensuring transparency and accountability for all transactions. Treasurer Summers also serves as an advocate to empower young people, workers and small business owners, as well as programs that promote economic growth and financial education. The Treasurer sits on five local pension boards with nearly $25 billion under management.Since taking the oath of office on Dec. 1, 2014, Treasurer Summers has hit the ground running.The Treasurer�s first act in office was the proposal of an ambitious and audacious 90-day-plan called �Invest in Our Chicago.� The plan was intended to act as a roadmap, focused on leveraging Chicago�s economic power to increase investment in its residents, workers, businesses and neighborhoods.Summers began his career at McKinsey & Company, a preeminent global strategy-consulting firm. Most recently, Summers served as a Senior Vice President at Grosvenor Capital Management and a member of the Office of the Chairman. In that role, Summers was a leader of the Emerging and Diverse Manager business, which invested over $2 billion with minority- and women-owned firms.With nearly 15 years of experience in the financial services community, a background rooted in service to others has guided Treasurer Summers throughout his professional career.Prior to his time at Grosvenor, Summers was called to serve as Chief of Staff to the Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and as the appointed Trustee for the $9 billion Cook County Pension Fund. In that capacity, Summers led county-wide reforms to provide performance management in every department.In his role as Chief of Staff for President Preckwinkle, Summers also steered the closure of a $487 million budget deficit while keeping the administration�s promise to rollback the county sales tax, saving taxpayers more than $400 million a year. Additionally, Summers aided in reforming the county�s procurement rules and helped pave the way for a more sustainable health and hospital system.In 2008, Summers answered the call to serve as Chief of Staff for Chicago 2016, the city�s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The historic plan called for development in struggling neighborhoods and sealed Kurt�s passion to help Chicago showcase all it has to offer.Treasurer Kurt Summers is a lifelong Chicago resident and a graduate of Whitney Young High School. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Management Distinction High Honors in Finance and International Business, with a minor in East Asian Studies, from Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Andrew Nakahata is managing director and head of National’s Western Region. Mr. Nakahata is based in San Francisco and responsible for National’s public finance marketing and new business generation efforts in the western half of the United States.Prior to joining National, Mr. Nakahata was with Citigroup Global Markets Inc., where he was a Director in the firm’s Public Finance Department and co-head of its Higher Education group.Before joining Citigroup Global Markets, Mr. Nakahata was an Executive Director in J.P. Morgan’s tax-exempt capital markets group where he advised higher education, not-for-profit and state and local government issuers. Prior to that, Mr. Nakahata was a Vice President in the Public Sector and Infrastructure Banking Group of Goldman, Sachs and Co. where he worked with state and local government, public utility, not-for profit healthcare, higher education, and corporate clients to develop and implement financial strategies for the structuring and sale of general fund, tax, and revenue secured obligations as well as associated derivative transactions.Mr. Nakahata is a member of the Board of Directors of the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project, the Asian Americans in Public Finance industry group, the Marin Country Day School and Kokoro Assisted Living. He holds a master's degree in public and private management (MPPM) from the Yale School of Management and a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University.�

Marc Hughes is a managing director in the Public Finance group at Mesirow Financial. He focuses on municipalities through California and has extensive experience with municipal utility, lease-backed and land secured debt. Marc has over 25 years of experience in municipal finance, including feasibility consulting, municipal financial management and investment banking. Marc has held senior investment banking positions at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, Jeffries & Co., RBC, Prudential Securities and Siebert Brandford Shank & Co. Marc earned a BA from California State University and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He holds FINRA Series 7, 52, 53 and 63 licenses.

Daniel Marsh’s work in the field of economic and community development has spanned 30 years in the public, private and non-profit sectors and includes all aspects of business finance and real estate development. �At the National Development Council (NDC), which he joined in 1986, Marsh has served as a Regional Director and Senior Manager prior to assuming his current responsibilities directing NDC’s Policy and Advocacy work in Washington, D.C. �Mr. Marsh also serves as President of the NDC Housing and Economic Development Corporation, NDC’s development and financing arm, and is credited with creating its nationally recognized P3 program using tax-exempt financing for social and traditional infrastructure development.� ��Mr. Marsh hold a BA in History and Urban Studies from Hartwick College.

As Assured’s Deputy Chief� Surveillance Officer, Public Finance� Frank is actively involved in public finance credit monitoring and workouts.� Frank took a lead role for Assured Guaranty on the Jefferson County, Alabama and City of Detroit restructurings and is currently actively engaged in developments in Puerto Rico and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Frank previously served as Co-chief Municpal Credit Officer for Assured Guaranty and Managing Director and Chief Municipal Underwriting Officer for Financial Security Assurance (FSA).Frank joined FSA in 1997 from AIG Financial Products Corp., where he was a Vice President and Counsel in the Municipal Group. Prior to joining AIG-FP, Frank practiced law in the Public Finance department of Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon. He holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from St. John’s� University School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the St. John’s Law Review.�