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Rick Perry is a veteran of the United States Air Force, a former farmer, and the former governor of the 12th largest economy in the world. He has devoted his adult life to creating prosperity and opportunity for families. As the 47th and longest-serving governor of the Lone Star State, he championed conservative principles that helped Texas become America’s economic engine.Since 2000, Texas has created almost one-third of all new private sector jobs in the United States. Without the 1.5 million jobs Texas created since the end of 2007, the United States would be net negative more than 400,000 jobs.In addition to doing more than its part to boost our nation’s economy, Texas and Gov. Perry were front and center on an issue that concerns us all – border security. Gov. Perry acted decisively to protect the people of Texas and this country from an unprecedented surge in illegal crossings of our southern border by surging state law enforcement and deploying the Texas National Guard to the region.Perry grew up the son of tenant farmers in the tiny West Texas town of Paint Creek. The younger of Ray and Amelia Perry’s two children, he was active in scouting and earned distinction as an Eagle Scout. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, earning a degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M University, where he was also a member of the Corps of Cadets and a Yell Leader.Between 1972 and 1977, Perry served in the U.S. Air Force flying C-130 tactical airlift aircraft in Europe and the Middle East. He is a lifetime member of both the NRA and American Legion Post #75. Prior to being elected Lieutenant Governor in 1998, he served two terms as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture and three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.Perry married his childhood sweetheart, Anita, in 1982. They have two children and two beautiful granddaughters.

Jon Forbes was appointed to the role of Colorado Deputy Treasurer by Walker R. Stapleton, Treasurer of Colorado on January 12, 2015. Prior to joining the State, Jon spent the last 25 years in the public finance arena, holding executive positions at Prudential Securities, UBS, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in addition to starting his career as an analyst with Bear, Stearns. In addition to his time in investment banking, he also served for two years in the New Jersey Treasurer’s Office of Public Finance as a Project Manager coordinating many of the State’s financings as well as spending three years with Dubois Brown and Company (DBC) developing software for the municipal finance sector.Jon moved to Denver from New York City in the summer of 2005 and is a 5-year Denver Broncos season ticket holder (Go Broncos!). He currently resides in Conifer, Colorado, a small (population 20,000), mountain town 45 minutes outside of Denver.

Jeremy Newtson, Director, serves in Stifel’s Chicago Public Finance office and covers large general governmental issuers in the Northeast and Midwest. Mr. Newtson has led $7.3 billion of transactions across a variety of credits and transaction types for the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, among many others, including a transaction awarded Midwest Deal of the Year by The Bond Buyer and one awarded Deal of the Year by Smith’s Research. Mr. Newtson received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Chicago.�

Mr. Salino has nearly 35 years of securities industry experience, primarily tradingBank qualified securities. Mr. Salino joined RBC in 2003 as a Senior Institutional trader. Because of his daily involvement in the Bank Qualified market, Mr. Salino is a primary resource for determining current rate levels and market trends.Prior to joining RBC Mr. Salino served as Senior Municipal Trader ,Principal with First Institutional Securities for 22 years. Mr. Salino has traded Bank Qualified Municipals since their creation in 1986.Mr. Salino holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pace UniversityMr. Salino holds series 7, 53, 56 and 79 Securities Licenses.� ��

Bill Gartland CFA, joined Interactive Data in 2014 to lead the delivery of our Continuous Fixed Income Evaluated Prices product.� He is a Chartered Financial Analyst with over 25 years of experience, beginning his career as a fixed income research analyst with Drexel Burnham.� For the last 10 years, Bill has focused on fixed income electronic trading at Bloomberg, Tradeweb and Benchmark Solutions.� He holds a BA in Mathematics from Iona College and an MS in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology.

Joe Guarino is the Head of Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodity Electronic Trading Sales for the America's at Bloomberg, the world’s largest and most widely used fixed income and foreign exchange trading platform. Joe is the Sales Manager of Bloomberg's multi-asset class swap execution facility, Bloomberg SEF LLC. He is responsible for driving the electronic trading strategy across multiple asset classes, taking into account evolutionary changes in market structure due to regulation. Joe is graduate of Rider University, with a B.S. in Finance.

Mr. Melton is currently Executive Vice President-Legal and Compliance at Coastal Securities, Inc. in Houston. �He has served Coastal as Chief Compliance Officer since 2003, and has held his current title since 2006. He has spent his entire career in the securities industry at regional broker dealers focused on fixed income securities.� His professional experience includes the areas of institutional sales, public finance and operations as well as compliance.� Mr. Melton is past president of the Arkansas Corporate Counsel Association, a past chairman of the FINRA District 6 Committee and is a past� member and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Bond Dealers of America.� He is currently serving a three year term on the FINRA Small Firm Advisory Board (SFAB).� His education includes a BSBA in Finance from the University of Arkansas and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.�� He holds a license to practice law in the State of Arkansas and FINRA Series 7, 63, 24, 27, 53 and 79 securities licenses.��

Robert J. Stracks is Of Counsel in the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP, a Milwaukee-based national law firm of over 500 attorneys.� Prior to joining Quarles in September, 2015, Bob represented municipal securities dealers as both outside and in-house counsel over a 40 year period.� From 2005-2014, he was counsel to BMO Capital Markets GKST Inc., with complete responsibility for all regulatory matters regarding that firm's internal compliance matters as well as all of its public finance investment banking activities.� Bob received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and his LL.B from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the Harvard Law Review. �

John is the CEO of the North Park (Ill.) Public Water District and Immediate Past-President of the American Water Works Association.John has worked in the water industry for more than 35 years and actively involved with AWWA for almost 30 years. He has a degree in Environmental Engineering and is certified to operate both Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities at the highest level.During his career, John has been actively engaged in the legislative and regulatory process related to water issues both in the State of Illinois and Washington DC. He regularly lobbies elected officials for improvements in capital project financing which includes the State Revolving Loan Fund program. Most recently, John worked closely with AWWA to lobby the US Congress to approve a new capital finance mechanism called the Water Infrastructure Finance Innovation Authority (WIFIA). The program was approved by Congress and signed by the President in 2015.John has utilized both the conventional bond market and State of Illinois Revolving Loan Program to fund many capital projects throughout his career totaling more than $75 million.John and his wife Debbie reside in Roscoe, Illinois with their son Johnny. They have a married daughter Jill (Todd) Johnson and are the proud grandparents of 3 grandchildren. ���