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Bernard Bailey is a Managing Director, Public Finance at Assured Guaranty with a primary focus on maintaining and expanding Assured Guaranty�s institutional client base. During his career spanning more than 30 years including both the banking and sales sides, Mr. Bailey has held positions at major dealer firms including Lazard Freres and Bear Stearns covering major hedge fund and distressed debt platforms. �Prior to joining Assured Guaranty, he was most recently with First Southwest.Mr. Bailey is a member of The Bond Club of New York and The Municipal Bond Club of New York.

Christopher Baron joined The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. in January 2014 as a Managing Director in the Public Finance Group. He is responsible for managing state and local government clients and prospects, including the origination and structuring of lines of credit, direct loans and placements, standby bond purchase agreements, and letters of credit.Previously, Chris led a team of 15 bankers at U.S. Bank focused on serving large education and nonprofit sector clients on a national level and covered governmental issuers in the Western United States. Prior to that he was a managing director at The Bank of New York Mellon/BNY Capital Markets, Inc. where he was responsible for the public finance division�s municipal business in the western half of the country.�Based in Los Angeles, Chris has been involved in the credit enhancement and liquidity markets since the early 1990s. While working for multiple financial institutions, Chris has provided credit enhancement and/or liquidity support to hundreds of tax-exempt issuers throughout the nation.�Chris is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Adam Putnam was elected to serve as Florida�s Commissioner of Agriculture on November 2, 2010, and was sworn into office on January 4, 2011. In this capacity, he oversees the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and serves as a member of Florida�s Cabinet.Commissioner Putnam�s priorities include fostering the growth and diversification of Florida agriculture; expanding access to Florida�s abundance of fresh produce, seafood and other products; securing a stable, reliable and diverse supply of energy; protecting the quantity and quality of the state�s water supply; and safeguarding consumers from deceptive business practices.Commissioner Putnam is also focused on creating opportunities for our nation�s wounded veterans to hunt, fish and participate in other outdoor activities on Florida�s public lands. More than 300 veterans have enjoyed recreational opportunities on Florida State Forests through Operation Outdoor Freedom, a program of the Florida Forest Service he established in 2011.Previously, Commissioner Putnam served five terms as Congressman for Florida�s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was recognized as a leader on a variety of issues, including water, energy and government transparency and efficiency. Commissioner Putnam was acknowledged for his efforts to bring comprehensive restoration to the Everglades, reform food safety laws, modernize programs to ensure Florida agriculture remains a leader throughout the nation and increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables to counter childhood obesity.While in Congress, Commissioner Putnam was elected by his peers to serve as the Republican Policy Chairman during the 109th Congress and Chairman of the House Republican Conference for the 110th Congress, the highest elected leadership position any Floridian of either party has held in Washington. Commissioner Putnam also served as a member of the House Committees on Government Reform, Agriculture, Rules and Financial Services.Before he was elected to Congress, Commissioner Putnam served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1996 to 2000. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in Food Resource and Economics.Commissioner Putnam is a fifth generation Floridian who grew up in the citrus and cattle industry. He and his wife, Melissa, have four children.

Partner Randolph J. Mayer practices in the New York office. Mr. Mayer focuses his practice on public and municipal finance. Mr. Mayer has significant experience serving as bond counsel, underwriters' counsel and disclosure counsel to municipalities and public benefit corporations. He has represented municipal clients in securities law matters involving administrative agencies. He has also assisted in municipal development and redevelopment projects, including urban renewal projects, and has negotiated solid waste disposal service contracts and leases for municipalities. He has done work for authorities, agencies, cities, counties and towns throughout the State of New York. Mr. Mayer leads the firm's work as bond counsel for tax matters for The City of New York and the New York City Transitional Finance Authority. He has served as disclosure counsel to The City of New York and as underwriters' counsel in New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority transactions. His clients have included water and sewer authorities, housing authorities, urban renewal agencies, community development agencies and industrial development agencies. Mr. Mayer has spoken at conferences and seminars sponsored by various groups, including the National Association of Bond Lawyers, the New York State Association of Counties, the New York State Association of Towns, the New York State Government Finance Officers Association, and the Bond Buyer Conference on Municipal Finance. Mr. Mayer has also participated as a panelist at the Bond Attorneys' Workshop.

�Marc S. Gerken, P.E., has served as president and chief executive officer of American Municipal Power, Inc. (AMP) since February 2000.AMP is the wholesale power supplier and services provider for 129 members, including 128 municipal electric systems in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky and the Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation (DEMEC), a joint action agency headquartered in Smyrna, Delaware. AMP is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and its member municipal electric systems serve more than 627,000 customers.Gerken began his career as a civil engineer working extensively in the public sector on infrastructure projects, including transportation, water, wastewater and storm water improvements. He served as the city engineer in the public power community of Napoleon, Ohio, and in 1995, was named the community�s city manager. In that capacity, Gerken served on the AMP Board of Trustees for four years and chaired the AMP Board committee with oversight over the construction of the 42-MW Belleville Hydroelectric Plant. He joined AMP in 1998 as vice president of business and operations.Gerken is active in public power leadership and policy development positions on a national level:� Currently serves as President of the National Hydropower Association (NHA) Board of Directors.� Past chairman of the American Public Power Association (APPA) Board of Directors, having served as a member of the 10-member Board Executive Committee from 2004-2011, and as the chairman from June 2009-June 2010.� Previously chaired the Public Power, Inc. Board of Directors, which oversees an APPA utility services affiliate.� A frequent presenter at APPA meetings and a leader in public power Joint Action Agency working groups.� He has testified before congressional committees and FERC technical conferences on wholesale power market issues.� Active with the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS).��

John joined the MDC in April 2007 following twenty years of diverse financial management experience.� Building upon a �Big Eight� audit background, John has held accounting and finance executive management positions in the pharmaceutical, medical/surgical distribution and security industries in both the for profit public and private sectors.� During his prior tenure, John has led several organizations through business transformations and change management plans following mergers and acquisitions and strategic plan adoption.� ���John is a certified public accountant and earned a Master in Business Administration from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.�

Douglas Goe, a partner in the Portland office, is the vice chair for the firm�s Public Finance Department in the Pacific Northwest.� He also is the partner-in-charge of Orrick�s Portland office.� Doug focuses on public finance and municipal bond law, including federal, state and tribal tax and securities law issues.Doug serves as bond counsel for the Oregon University System and Oregon Health and Science University.� Doug also serves as the primary lead bond counsel for the Oregon Facilities Authority on higher education, hospital and other conduit 501(c)(3) revenue bond issues.He also has served as bond counsel or underwriters counsel to conduit revenue bond issuers in the States of Washington, Oregon, California, Texas, Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi, Alaska, and Wisconsin.� Doug has served as bond counsel or underwriters counsel on nonprofit CCRC financings in California, Florida, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.� In December 2012, Doug helped design and served as underwriters� counsel on three series of revenue bonds which helped restructure more than $100 million of nonprofit debt for a CCRC located in Seattle, Washington.Doug is bond counsel to many Oregon and Washington state departments, commissions and boards, and numerous Oregon cities and counties.� Doug works on large transportation financings for highways, bridges, transit, airport and marine facilities and serves as bond counsel to The Port of Portland and the Oregon Department of Transportation.� He has served as a member of the Oregon Department of Transportation�s Innovative Finance Advisory Committee and has drafted legislation for a variety of transportation projects.Doug is actively engaged in Oregon public and civic affairs.� Since 2008, Doug has chaired the Oregon Short Term Fund Board.� He also has served on the boards of the Portland State University Foundation, Classroom Law Project, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Museum at Warm Springs, Arlington Club, Arlington Club Heritage Foundation, Waverley Historic Foundation and Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.� For 20 years, Doug served as pro bono corporate counsel to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.For more than 30 years, Doug has worked on large and small industrial, economic development, and solid waste disposal projects for manufacturing, paper and newsprint, and waste disposal companies.Doug serves as bond counsel to a number of school districts on general obligation, full faith and credit and pension bond financings.� He was responsible for helping draft the initial legislation that authorizes school districts and local governments to finance their unfunded actuarial pension liabilities.For more than 25 years, Doug also has served as bond, underwriter�s counsel and bank counsel on a broad range of tribal financings for tribal schools, utilities, justice centers, healthcare, hydroelectric dam facilities, manufacturing and economic development projects.� He also has worked on a variety of financings for tribal gaming facilities, resorts and convention facilities.� Doug also advises tribal clients on direct investment projects and other investment related matters.Among other tribal clients, Doug serves as bond counsel to The Navajo Nation and The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.

Mr. Lawrence (Chip) Pierce joined Western Financial Group, LLC at its inception.� Some of his current municipal clients include: Alaska Municipal Bond Bank; New Mexico Finance Authority; Greater Arizona Development Authority; Oregon Bond Bank; and the Idaho Bond Bank.Mr. Pierce has been a financial advisor since 1986.� He serves as advisor to five western state bond banks.� Pooled loan programs such as bond banks are able to provide loans for infrastructure projects to municipalities at rates that many of those communities would not be able to achieve on their own.As advisor to the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank since 1998, Mr. Pierce has assisted several communities in financing infrastructure improvements ranging from school facility enhance-ments to hospitals to local economic initiatives.� To date, he has advised AMBBA on more than $1.4 billion in bond sales.As advisor to the NMFA since its creation in 1992, Mr. Pierce has overseen the issuance of nearly $2.1 billion of NMFA debt.� He was instrumental in the development of the NMFA�s flagship Public Project Revolving fund program in 1994-95 and has advised the Authority in its relationship with the rating agencies.� The PPRF program is currently rated AAA by Standard & Poor�s and Aa1 by Moody�s.The Oregon Bond Bank's first bond issue occurred in February 1991.� The Bond Bank has issued approximately $382 million in 30 separate series of bonds in its twenty-three years of operation, providing financing to more than 100 Oregon municipalities.Hired in 1998, Mr. Pierce assisted the Greater Arizona Development Authority to establish a program structure for that state�s pooled infrastructure loan program.� To date, he has advised GADA in the issuance of approximately $575 million of bonds, the proceeds of which have been loaned to more than fifty Arizona communities.Mr. Pierce was hired in 2002 to assist the creation and implementation of the newly-created Idaho Bond Bank.� That program has a pledge of the state�s sales tax, and consequently maintains a Aa1 rating from Moody�s.� To date, the Idaho Bond Bank has issued over $450 million.Prior to joining Western Financial Group, Mr. Pierce worked at Public Financial Management, a national financial advisory firm.� Mr. Pierce also worked for two years at the Government Finance Officers Association's (GFOA) GovernmentFinanceResearchCenter in Washington, D.C., where he was a project manager.� He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in American Political History from the ColoradoCollege.� Mr. Pierce holds a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.