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 NewsKarl Falk is CEO and co-founder of ShortSave, a borrower-facing, self-service default servicing system. He can be reached at kfalk@short-save.com.
Bob Ives is Fannie Mae�s Vice President and Head of Retained Portfolio Asset Management reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. Ives is responsible for the management of loans and securities in the Retained Portfolio and is a key member of the team that developed the Connecticut Avenue Securities series of risk-sharing transactions. Prior to his appointment to Head of Retained Portfolio Asset Management, Ives was responsible for the trading of all structured mortgage products, including oversight of agency Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits, Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), and municipal assets.Before joining Fannie Mae in August 2004, Ives was a Senior Vice President, Asian Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) Research at Lehman Bros. Japan where he worked with clients in Asia to build and analyze U.S. securitized product portfolios including agency MBS and CMOs, auto, credit card and Home Equity Loans, ABS, and CMBS. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Fidelity Investments. Before attending business school, he was on the technical staff at Mitre Corp. and at AT&T Bell Labs.Ives has a master of business administration in finance from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, a master of science in electrical engineering with focus on stochastic processes from Stanford University, and a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Paulina Gonzalez-Brito is executive director of the California Reinvestment Coalition.
Tobi Carter is a Checkpoint Editor/Author with the Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting Business. In this position, she serves as in-house SEC expert. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Ms. Carter was an associate in the Corporate and Securities Law Practice Group at Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP for nearly five years. Before practicing at Certilman Balin, Ms. Carter was an attorney for two years in the Securities Litigation Group at Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P. Prior to that, she was Associate Counsel for two years at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Ms. Carter earned her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2001, where she served as Senior Staff Editor of the Environmental Law Journal. In 1998, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A., cum laude, in Legal Studies. Admitted to practice in the State of New York, Ms. Carter is a member of the American Bar Association, as well as its Business Law Section.
Kevin Petrie is a senior director at Attunity and author of Streaming Change Data Capture: A Foundation for Modern Data Analytics.
Darwin Pangilinan is an assurance and advisor services partner at OUM & Co. LLP, a CPA firm with offices in San Francisco and San Diego County. Reach him at dpangilinan@oumcpa.com.
Dirk Schmidt-Gallas, Ph.D., is a senior partner with Simon-Kucher & Partners and global head of the strategy and marketing consultancy’s insurance practice.
Mark Webster (pictured) and Anthony Siu are managing directors of BDA Partners in the Shanghai office, where he is a co-head.
Ryan Owings is senior director of clinical strategic business units for Cerner.
Ravie Lakshmanan is a reporter for Financial Planning, On Wall Street and Bank Investment Consultant.





