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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    Laurence E. Bensignor is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Eagle Bancorp, Inc. and EagleBank, a $3.4 billion community bank headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with 18 branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Mr. Bensignor serves as the company�s chief legal officer and is also responsible for Eagle Insurance Services, EagleBank Investment Advisory Services and Eagle Commercial Ventures. Before joining Eagle in 2010, Mr. Bensignor was a principal of CastleGate Partners, LLC, a real estate investment firm, and formerly served for ten years as the fulltime Trustee of the Van Metre Family Trusts, the principal owner of a multifaceted real estate development, homebuilding and investment organization in Northern Virginia. From 1993-1998, Mr. Bensignor was a partner in Arter & Hadden, LLP, resident in its Washington, D.C. office, where he chaired the Real Estate Practice Group. Previously he was a partner (and formerly an associate) at Melrod, Redman & Gartlan, P.C., Washington, D.C., where he concentrated his practice in real estate and corporate transactions. Mr. Bensignor received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rhode Island magna cum laude and his Juris Doctor degree from The George Washington University National Law Center. He is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

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    Angela Cheek has extensive experience working with financial service providers on the implementation of compliance solutions. For almost 20 years, she has focused her career on operations, lending, real estate, and business law, working primarily with financial institutions, mortgage lenders, and technology companies.Ms. Cheek is currently the senior director, product compliance of Ellie Mae. She began her legal career specializing in compliance for financial service providers, serving as operations product counsel for CFI ProServices, Inc. (now Harland Financial Solutions Inc.) for six years. Ms. Cheek also maintained a financial services and business law practice for four years as an associate at the law firm of Farleigh, Wada & Witt PC, in Portland, Oregon, representing financial service companies, financial institutions and mortgage companies on regulatory, operational, compliance, privacy, and licensing issues.Ms. Cheek is a member of the state bar associations of California and Oregon, and a member of the American Bar Association, including the business law section, committee on consumer financial services. She also served as the chairperson of the National Home Equity Mortgage Association compliance and servicing subcommittee for two years.

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    Brian McGrath is head of strategic development for Tampa, Fla.-based ProVest LLC.

    David DiMartile specializes in industrial relations, organizational structure, human resource business strategy and human resource management. He is the president and managing director of DiMartile HR and has nearly four decades of business management experience.

    Phillip L. Swagel is Professor in International Economic Policy at the Maryland School of Public Policy.� He directs the Thomas Schelling Distinguished Visitor Series, which brings to the university eminent policy makers and leading academics who have made sustained contributions to public policy.Swagel comes to MSPP from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he served as a visiting professor teaching classes on the relationship between financial markets and the economy. Swagel was also the director of the McDonough School's Center for Financial Institutions, Policy, and Governance.� He is a non-resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.Swagel was Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department from December 2006 to January 2009.� In that position, he advised Secretary Paulson on all aspects of economic policy.� He served as a member of the TARP investment committee, and was responsible for analysis on issues including housing, financial markets, healthcare, pensions, and macroeconomic forecasts.Swagel was previously chief of staff and a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and was an economist at the IMF and the Federal Reserve Board.� He has taught courses on domestic and international economics at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.� He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University in 1987 and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1993.��

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    Bob Corker grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended public schools, played sports, and from an early age learned to love and value hard work. He took his first job at age 13 picking up trash and spent his teenage years bagging ice, working at the Western Auto and putting in long hours as a construction laborer. Bob graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1974 with a degree in Industrial Management, and after working four years as a construction superintendent, he started his own construction company with $8,000. The company grew as it quickly gained a reputation for meeting deadlines on time and under budget and eventually expanded to operations in 18 states. In 1999, Corker acquired two of the largest and oldest commercial real estate companies in Chattanooga.After traveling with his church on a mission trip to Haiti in his late twenties, Bob began to take a closer look at needs in his own community. He led the creation of Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a non-profit organization that today has helped over 10,000 families secure decent, fit and affordable housing through low-interest loans and personal training in home maintenance. In 1994, Bob was appointed Tennessee Commissioner of Finance and Administration, where he served for two years in the highest appointed office in state government. As commissioner, he tightened the state's budget and helped move almost 40,000 Tennesseans off welfare and into jobs. In 2001, Bob was elected mayor of Chattanooga. During his four-year tenure, he attracted $2.1 billion of new investment to Chattanooga, transformed the waterfront, implemented merit bonus pay for teachers which dramatically raised student achievement in some of the city�s most challenged schools, and worked with local law enforcement officials to cut violent crime in half. On November 7, 2006, Bob Corker was elected to serve the people of Tennessee in the United States Senate. He is ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee and an active member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

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    Keith Luedeman�s business experience began with IBM. He spent the first 7 years after college working for the industry leader in a variety of Technical and Sales positions, gaining the experience of starting the IBM Consulting Services Groups in NC and SC. He attended the IBM President�s Class and CEO Business Strategies, taught by Harvard Business School and The Business of Banking class taught by Kellogg & Wharton Business School professors, as well as the Dale Carnegie Human Relations and Public Speaking Course. Duplicating the growth he had witnessed at IBM within a small company, Keith became instrumental in the growth of a Retail Services Technical Consulting Group from 20 to 100 and the launch of a new product. This growing company was acquired, and his e-commerce consulting division was then acquired by another company. Rounding out his channels experience, Keith then became Director of Software Marketing for JBA as they were being acquired by Avnet, a Fortune 100 $7B Hardware, Software & Services firm. Throughout this process he gained an accidental expertise in M&A Activity. In 1998, studies showed that the Internet mortgage market would grow from 1% of all mortgages in 1999 to up to 51% by 2005. Even if those numbers were off by half (which they were), there was still an incredible market opportunity. Keith acted on this opportunity in Internet lending, founding goodmortgage.com in 1999. Starting with a small investment, goodmortgage.com paced its growth. Keith treated the company as a small business that had to succeed for the long-term instead of gambling on venture capital and a quick exit strategy. By focusing on growing wisely, spending wisely and hiring wisely, Keith has built a thriving lending leader whose presence is felt throughout the loan industry. Even when the industry was in decline, goodmortgage.com sustained growth and continues to grow with strategies and opportunity tied to quantifying growth instead of attaining growth. Recently the company was named the Online Lender of the Year Industry Award at the Mortgage Bankers Association National meeting. Luedeman has a BS from Clemson University with a combined major of Mathematical Science and Computer Science. He graduated in 1987 as member of Calhoun Honors College and was President of the Pi Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society.

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    Roberto is a Principal with PwC’s Consumer Finance practice and is responsible for leading the practice’s digital lending efforts. He has extensive experience in advising banking and lending clients on customer experience, strategy, operations and risk management.Roberto has over 15 years experience in the financial services industry in both a consulting capacity and also working for two of the top 10 global financial institutions. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and the author of several news articles as well as whitepapers on the topics of digital lending, customer experience, operational strategy, and target operating model design.Roberto is an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico.

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    Amy S. Mushahwar is an experienced data privacy, security, and management attorney with more than 15 years' experience in the technology industry in both legal and engineering capacities. She defends companies in privacy-related matters, including privacy litigation, breach of security litigation, and advises on regulatory issues involving e-commerce, including social networking sites, the use of mobile platforms in banking transactions, and PCI compliance for payment cards. Amy also assists clients in the development of integrated digital platforms, particularly those using the Internet, cloud computing, emerging payments, database APIs, and mobile technology. Amy is an editor of the American Bar Association's Data Security Handbook, and authored numerous publications that have appeared in titles like Corporate Counsel and Information Security Magazine, among other publications.Amy is a magna cum laude graduate of the Catholic University, Columbus School of Law. In her spare time, Amy is on the White Hat Gala Committee to benefit Children's National Medical Center.

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    Pete Radike is director of product management, lending solutions at Fiserv.