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Fiona Ma serves as Chairwoman of the California State Board of Equalization. She is serving her first term as a member of SBOE, representing 23 counties and nine million Californians of the Second District. Ms. Ma was previously elected to represent the 12th Assembly District from December 2006 to November 2012 and served as the first Asian-American woman Assembly Speaker pro Tempore in California history.As Chair of the SBOE, Ms. Ma is working hard to promote a culture of fairness, efficiency and respect for California's taxpayers and businesses. She is aggressively combatting the underground economy which deprives California of approximately $8.5 billion in tax revenue. In her first year as a Board Member, Ms. Ma launched an outreach effort through her district offices that significantly decreased the number of cannabis dispensaries operating without proper permits or collecting taxes. She has participated in efforts to crack down illegal sales of cigarettes, and has been a leading advocate in ensuring that e-Cigarettes are taxed and regulated like traditional tobacco products.Throughout her service as an elected official, she has been an outspoken advocate for California's women. In her time in the Assembly and Board of Supervisors, she championed a number of proposals to crack down on human trafficking, reform unjust sentencing laws that kept domestic abuse survivors from presenting expert testimony in criminal trials, and to provide support and resources for victims of domestic violence.Ms. Ma has been committed to public service ever since she was a small business owner and was elected to serve as President of the Asian Businesses Association in San Francisco, where she quickly emerged as a leading voice for San Francisco's small business community. She was an elected delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business under President Bill Clinton, which produced a report to Congress on the 60 top policy recommendations to help small businesses grow and prosper in the 21st century. She was later appointed to the Assessment Appeals Board, and joined the staff of former Senator John Burton as a constituent advocate.Ms. Ma received her B.S. from the Rochester Institute of Technology (NY), her M.S. in Taxation from Golden Gate University (SF), and an MBA from Pepperdine University. She has been licensed in California as a Certified Public Accountant since 1992.She is a card carrying member of SAG-AFTRA, the labor union representing theater, television, radio and film actors, having appeared in a number of productions filmed in San Francisco, and she was appointed to serve on the California Film Commission in 2016. Additionally, Ms. Ma serves as Treasurer of California Women Lead, the only statewide, nonpartisan women's organization that is committed to providing women the training and support they need to be successful in the political arena.

Ms. Allen is the Legal Division Director for the Maryland State Treasurer's Office where she provides guidance with respect to the federal tax and securities laws applicable to the State's bonds. Ms. Allen was previously a partner at McKennon Shelton & Henn LLP in Baltimore, Maryland where she had a general public finance practice. Notable representations include serving as counsel to the Maryland Water Quality Financing Administration in the creation of its Bay Restoration Fund bond program and as counsel to the Maryland Transportation Authority on the first issuance of GARVEE bonds in the State of Maryland. Ms. Allen is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Maryland School of Law.

Michael K. Drulis is the Executive Director of the Government Finance Officers Association of New Jersey.� Since 1937, the GFOA of NJ has been a professional association of government finance officers working together to enhance and promote professional management of government for public benefit. �The GFOA of NJ’s membership includes those working in state, county, and municipal government, school districts, the public employee retirement systems, libraries, federal agencies, investment banks, and accounting, law, and consulting institutions.For over five years Michael and the GFOA of NJ staff have served their membership in providing full time management for the organization and maintaining a “good government” presence in the halls of the Trenton Statehouse.�Professionally, since 1999 Michael has served in and out of local government and has led organizations as their association executive and lobbyist.� He is a graduate of Rutgers College and is currently in the Master of Public Administration program at Rutgers, Newark.� He is a resident of Raritan Township, New Jersey with his wife Mitchelle and daughter Torri.

Robert Doty is president of AGFS, a municipal securities litigation consulting firm in Annapolis, Md.

Dan Schnur is the Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California. He is also the founder and Director of the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll series.�In 2010, Dan was appointed Chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC). During his tenure, he implemented groundbreaking campaign finance disclosure requirements for independent committees. Dan also was a founder and co-chairman of the Voices of Reform project, the bi-partisan statewide effort whose work laid the foundation for California’s landmark redistricting reform.In 2014, Dan ran for statewide office as a non-partisan candidate for California Secretary of State.Dan is an Adjunct Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and has taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University and George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.Dan has worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns as one of California’s leading political strategists. He served as the national Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and was the chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson.��Dan has been an advisor to the William & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Broad Education Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the James Irvine Foundation, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Stuart Foundation on a variety of K-12 education and college and workforce preparedness efforts.

Jeffrey Fried joined BAM from the Edwards Wildman Palmer Law Firm, where he was a Partner and the Senior Legal Risk Manager for the firm's Public Finance Practice. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Partner at Greenberg Traurig, where he helped to establish a national public infrastructure practice focused on municipal finance, public-private partnerships and regional public finance underwritings. Before that, he served as a Senior Managing Director and Group Head in Public Finance at FGIC and earlier was General Counsel, Public Finance and General Counsel, AFSLP at AMBAC. He has a B.S. from State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from the Fordham School of Law.

Shawn Maher is Managing Director and Head of U.S. Regulatory and Government Affairs for Royal Bank of Canada.� He reports to Francine Blackburn, RBC’s Chief Compliance Officer and Executive Vice President for Regulatory and Government Affairs.� He is responsible�for�advancing RBC's enterprise and business-specific strategic objectives within legislative and regulatory bodies in the�United States. Prior to joining RBC, Shawn�served in the White House as�the Deputy�Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and Senate Liaison.� He also worked as Majority Staff Director and General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.� In addition, he served as Legislative Director to Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), and as Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance. He also served as Law Clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Mary Johnson Lowe of the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law.� ��

An award-winning analyst, Peter brings over 20 years of experience in credit research and consulting to Piper Jaffray’s Strategic Analytics Group where he supports the firm’s sales and public finance efforts by focusing on general credit issues affecting the market.�� Prior to joining Piper Jaffray, Peter worked in the municipal research department of two investment banks, BMO Capital Markets GKST, Inc. and EVEREN Securities, Inc.; the tax-supported and transportation groups at Fitch Ratings, where he co-led the airports rating team and served on the criteria committee; and the finance practice of Ricondo & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of feasibility studies and other financial consulting to the nation’s airports.��