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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    She is the author of seven books, including her newest, Not Your Parents’ Money Book: Making, Saving, and Spending Your Own Money, and recent release, Money 911: Your Most Pressing Money Questions Answered, Your Money Emergencies Solved, a New York Times best seller. She is also the author of The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times and best sellers Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (New York Times and Business Week best seller) and Make Money, Not Excuses (Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller).In 2010, Jean was honored with the Books for a Better Life award for her book The Difference, and in 2009, the Consumer Federation of America awarded Jean the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award for her nearly two decades of pioneering personal finance education. She has also received the Clarion Award from Women in Communications, a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television, Inc., and was named one of the best magazine columnists in the country by the Chicago Tribune.Jean lives with her family in Westchester, NY.

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    Inderjeet Singh is VP and General Manager at TIBCO Software Inc, where he has overall responsibility for the Emerging Technologies business unit. Prior to TIBCO, he was Director, Product Management at Velosel, a Master Data Management startup, acquired by TIBCO in 2005. Mr. Singh held senior technical leadership positions at Syncsort Inc. early in his career. He holds a MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business, an MS, Computer Science from Marist College and BS from National Defense Academy, India.

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    Neil J. Morse is a principal of MORSE COMMUNICATIONS in Newtown, Conn., an editorial and marketing communications firm primarily serving the U.S. mortgage industry. The firm provides clients with experienced counsel and unparalleled contacts, along with services that include: feature and news release writing, panel placements at major industry conferences, and media Interview and monitoring activities. Mr. Morse began work in the mortgage industry 13 years ago, as an Executive Editor – later establishing his marketing communications firm in 2000. He has maintained an editorial presence as an independent industry writer, contributing regularly to Mortgage Banking Magazine, Inman News and MortgageDaily.com. A frequent conference participant, who attends some two dozen events each year, Mr. Morse holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Master’s Degree in Communications from Fairfield (Conn.) University, where he is an adjunct faculty member teaching classes in communications.

    Randall Clark, Project Director for Information Assurance Professionals (IAP), is a seasoned technology project manager with in-depth experience in full System Development Lifecycle of IT solutions for highly visible, complex, mission critical projects and senior manager of asset management/loan servicing operations. His track record encompasses successful execution of projects for commercial and government sector clients. He is recognized for his ability to creatively lead and motivate teams to achieve results exceeding expectations, while establishing excellent client relations. He has led numerous large complex contracts and served as the central point of contract administration and execution. Prior to joining IAP, Mr. Clark was the project manager for numerous project developments at Booz Allen Hamilton, including the Large Business and International Expansion Technology Strategy for the IRS. He also directed the Business Performance Measures System development for the IRS. Over his 30 year career Mr. Clark also served as the Vice President of Operations for ACS Government Solutions. Currently he is the Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert for the implementation of a Performance Evaluation Model and Quality Assurance system for HUD’s REO Disposition Program. In this position he is responsible for the implementation of an evaluation and risk assessment model designed to measure, track, monitor and report on the performance of Field Service Management and Asset Management vendors. The program and risk assessment model is designed to implement an efficient, transparent, cost effective and productive structure with strong data analytics, performance metrics and risk management oversight for one of the nation’s largest REO management programs.

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    Gregory Hebner is the President of NuView Financial Services, a leader in outsourced loss mitigation services for the residential mortgage industry and serves as the COO of NuView’s parent company, Sorrento Capital, a private asset management firm focused on consumer related-financial services in the homeownership category. Mr. Hebner is also the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Community Rebuild Partners, a distressed real estate investment firm.Mr. Hebner is a recognized expert in the loss mitigation and distressed residential asset fields and has been an author and presenter on a wide range of topical issues facing the residential mortgage industry. Most recently, Mr. Hebner has been an outspoken advocate for increasing the opportunities for prospective homebuyers to acquire distressed properties.Mr. Hebner holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from the University of Illinois.

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    Kim Ellison is the Senior Industry Relations Manager in Fannie Mae’s Mortgage Fraud program. Kim’s role is to coordinate Fannie Mae’s anti-fraud efforts with Fannie Mae’s partners, including the lending community, industry groups and law enforcement. Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Kim was a credit risk and claims division senior executive for a mortgage fraud insurance company where she had oversight over claims investigations, insurance claims processing and risk based operational assessments of lenders with an emphasis on fraud prevention measures. Kim has extensive fraud management and QC experience in her 25 year mortgage career, having served as a Fraud Investigations Division Director at GMAC-RFC, a QC Sr. Manager at Norwest Bank (Wells Fargo), and a QC specialist at a small mortgage lending company. Her experience also includes roles in fraud training, servicing operations, underwriting and internal audit. Kim has been an active participant with the MBA’s Quality Assurance and Leadership committees as well as numerous conference planning committees for the MBA. Kim has been a frequent speaker and trainer at MBA, NHEMA, School of Mortgage Banking and other industry events related to mortgage fraud and quality control. Kim co-created the Fraudopoly and Fraudster’s Feud games played at MBA functions. Kim holds a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Minnesota.

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    As Executive Vice President of Servicing at Nationstar Mortgage, Robert is responsible for all aspects of the company's primary and special servicing business. Prior to joining Nationstar in February 2008, he was with GMAC Residential Funding Corporation for nine years in a variety of roles, including Managing Director of its Homecomings servicing and Master Servicing operations and as CEO of its United Kingdom Mortgage Lending Business. After graduating from the University of North Texas, and spending five years with Ernst & Young, Robert spent the first 9 years of his mortgage career with Capstead Mortgage Corporation in servicing and portfolio management roles.

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    Kathy Patrick is a partner at Gibbs & Bruns LLP, a premier litigation boutique based in Houston.  Kathy focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities law, creditor recovery litigation and institutional investor litigation.  Kathy’s representative clients include: Huntsman Corporation, PIMCO, Trust Company of the West, Invesco, Western Asset Management, Ambac Assurance, the former outside directors of Enron Corporation and the State of Arizona. Kathy currently serves as lead counsel to over a dozen large institutions that collectively hold over 25% of the Voting Rights in 225 securitization pools that issued over $175 billion of Countrywide-issued mortgage-backed securities.  Kathy was engaged to enforce her clients’ rights, through the governing agreements, to compel the repurchase of ineligible mortgages that do not conform to the representations and warranties concerning the collateral for the RMBS.Kathy’s national recognition includes being named to Legal Media’s World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers list; Chambers USA’s Nationwide Securities Litigation Leading Lawyers list; Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Bet-the-Company Litigation, Securities Law and Commercial Litigation; and Benchmark Litigation in the areas of Complex Commercial, Securities and Legal Malpractice.  In 2008, Kathy was named to Texas Lawyer’s Extraordinary Women in Texas Law, the inaugural issue.