Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
  • 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.

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    Mr. Weil is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Houlihan Lokey. He splits his time between the Washington, D.C. and New York offices. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, he was a co-founder and CEO of Milestone Merchant Partners, LLC and its financial advisory division, Milestone Advisors, LLC. Milestone exclusively focused on financial services clients across the depository institution, specialty finance (including mortgage, commercial and consumer finance), distressed real estate, and financial technology sectors. Mr. Weil has represented a wide array of financial services entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, large banks, insurance companies and broker dealers, governmental entities and asset managers. On the principal front, Mr. Weil and his Milestone team created Sabal Financial Group, an industry-leading purchaser, asset manager and servicer of distressed ADC and CRE loans and MMP Financial Fund I, an investment fund focused on community and regional banks. Prior to starting Milestone, he was a managing director of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company, Inc. (FBR). At FBR, Mr. Weil had significant responsibility for the firm�s day-to-day financial services practice. In addition, he had primary responsibility for building and supervising the group�s M&A investment banking practice, completing approximately 50 transactions during his tenure with the firm. While at FBR, he led several financial institutions buyout deals under a streamlined transaction/financing structure that was pioneered by his team. He was previously senior vice president and general counsel of Hovde Financial, Inc., a bank and thrift M&A boutique and private hedge fund manager. Mr. Weil began his career as a corporate attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from The Washington University School of Law.

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    Shari Olefson�is a bar certified real estate attorney and a Supreme Court certified mediator. Since launching her legal career in 1989, Olefson, a member of the Florida, District of Columbia, and New York Bars, has focused on business and commercial real estate transactions, mediations, and workouts. In addition to her law practice, she has served as the CEO of a Fortune 300 joint venture in banking, real estate law, and title insurance.�She is the author of�Financial Fresh Start, and�Foreclosure Nation: Mortgaging the American Dream.She can be found on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/user/shariolefson?feature=mhee, Twitter at https://twitter.com/ShariOlefson, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shari-Olefson/305416306245627?fref=ts, and LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/shariolefson.

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    Patti Recser is senior account manager with Platinum Data Solutions, Aliso Viejo, Calif. The company�s telephone number is 877-711-1200 and its website is www.platdata.com.

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    Working out of MountainView�s New York office, Derek Katz is primarily responsible for sourcing residential whole loan portfolios and identifying trading opportunities for the MountainView Mortgage Opportunities Funds. Mr. Katz also works with clients on the valuation, sale and purchase of residential mortgage servicing rights portfolios. In this role, Derek acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers and provides insight on the secondary residential mortgage market. Before joining MountainView in 2008, Derek was a director in the Asset Securitization and Finance Group at Natixis Capital Markets and was responsible for all aspects of whole loan and mortgage-backed finance, including the origination and placement of mortgage-backed securities, transaction management and contract finance, portfolio and servicing oversight, and due diligence management. Prior to joining Natixis, he was a vice president in the Mortgage Trading and Finance Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, working primarily on subprime and second-lien whole loan trades and securitizations. Before joining Credit Suisse, Derek was a vice president in the Asset-Backed Securitization and Finance Group at UBS/Paine Webber, where he concentrated on auto leases, credit card receivables, aircraft leases, franchise loans, and mortgages. He earned a bachelor�s degree from Princeton University and holds Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.

    Danvers Residential Recovery Fund II is a private real estate investment fund which acquires re-performing and sub performing whole residential mortgage loans. Since 2008 Mr. Brandenburg has managed four closed-end funds specializing in the purchase and resolution of distressed residential real estate assets in the Western United States which have acquired and resolved $260m (unpaid balance) in residential loans. He oversees the valuation, acquisition, and resolution of all loans and REO held in the Fund. Mr. Brandenburg has worked as an executive in the mortgage banking industry for 26 years.

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    Lisa Weaver, CMB, is the Senior Vice President of ISGN, a leading provider of technology solutions for the mortgage industry.Weaver has more than 25 years of mortgage industry experience and is the executive responsible for the Professional Services practice, Technology Innovation and Industry Relations.� Ms. Weaver is the architect of the patent-pending CFPB Risk Check™, which won the 2014� Progress in Lending Innovation award and Mock Audit™, winner of the Mortgage Technology 2013 Release of the Year. Previously, she held executive and management roles at Freddie Mac, OneWest Bank, and General Electric .� Weaver is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) with a rich understanding spanning the entire mortgage ecosystem with GE Six Sigma and Lean Sigma BlackBelt from Villanova University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Friends University, Kansas.

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    Mr. Furlong joined MIAC in April 2010 and is the Director of its Due Diligence Group.� He has over 24 years of experience within the banking industry. During his time at MIAC, Mr. Furlong managed over 100 due diligence projects in 33 states which performed loan underwriting and review processes which supplied analytical information for the FDIC in order to structure loss share agreements.Additionally, Mr. Furlong has lead the development of MIAC�s VeriFiTM system which is a comprehensive due diligence suite for the banking and lending industries. VeriFi� customizes the loan file review process to the user�s exact specifications and processes a variety of verifications, compliance testing, and underwriting reviews which will assist in quantifying the risks associated with loan files.Mr. Furlong has completed portfolio valuations on a variety of commercial, auto loan, credit card, student loan, and reverse mortgage whole loan and securitization valuations.Prior to joining MIAC, Mr. Furlong was a Chief Operating Officer of Jacobs Capital Partners, where he oversaw a multi-divisional and multi-state commercial lending and development firm.� During his tenure at Jacobs Capital Partners, he managed a large commercial loan portfolio consisting of large multi-family, commercial income, and acquisition and development properties.Prior to joining Jacobs Capital Partners, Joe was Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of Gulfcoast Mortgage Solutions, where he oversaw the organization�s loan production, underwriting, and overall portfolio management.Mr. Furlong also was the President and Chief Lending Officer of First Florida Financial Ltd, Incorporated where he developed and successfully managed a consumer and residential lending firm.� Under his guidance, First Florida Financial Ltd, Inc. was rated the third fastest growing companies on the west coast of Florida.

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    Kathalin Carvalho is the vice president of compliance for Tampa, Fla.-based ProVest, a nationwide legal services firm specializing in managing the delivery of legal documents and related foreclosure services. Carvalho ensures that ProVest employees and agents adopt appropriate standards, practices and internal controls. Carvalho is a board certified criminal defense investigator and serves as co-chair of the ACAMS Central Florida Chapter. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

    Carl Turro is vice president of ProVest.

    Mike Waltz is a Senior Vice President in the Special Loan Group at Associated Bank, a Wisconsin-based bank with $22B in assets and branches across Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. Mike manages a team of workout officers across the bank�s footprint and also has responsibilities over the commercial REO portfolio and the charge-off recovery and SBA workout teams. Mike started his banking career in 2001 with Fifth Third Bank in Grand Rapids, MI. He started as a workout officer and moved into a team lead position in the Special Assets Group. During his six years at Fifth Third Mike also managed the commercial loan sale process for the bank and successfully closed over 30 sales of distressed commercial loan portfolios. Mike joined Associated Bank in 2008 as a team lead in the Special Loan Group. Over the past five years his responsibilities have grown to include the commercial note sale process.