Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Ann Thompson is a Senior Analyst in the Office of Supervision Policy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Since joining the Bureau in October 2011, she has helped stand up the mortgage servicing supervision program. In this role, she aids the development of the supervision strategy for mortgage servicers. She also provides technical advice on operational and regulatory issues to teams examining mortgage servicers. Ann previously worked for the Department of Treasury on the Making Home Affordable program. Prior to joining the federal government, she worked in residential and commercial real estate consulting. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Ms. Gaskin is responsible for the strategic direction of FICO’s scoring products and business partnerships serving the needs of the mortgage industry. In her role, Ms Gaskin works closely with the Government Sponsored Enterprises, Federal Housing Finance Agency, HUD and Treasury on housing related initiatives. She leads the FICO Mortgage Recovery Initiative designed to provide a comprehensive solution to speed the process of loan remediation for homeowners, lenders and servicers. Ms Gaskin has more than 20 years experience in banking and financial services. Prior to joining FICO in 2007, Ms. Gaskin was responsible for product management and business development for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services in the US mortgage market. Ms Gaskin led product development efforts to address some of the most important topics impacting the mortgage market: regulatory compliance, credit risk management, data security and e-mortgages. She also served as President and CEO of Auto Club Trust FSB, and Executive Vice President with Michigan National Bank. Ms Gaskin is a graduate of the Mortgage School of Banking, earning the Accredited Mortgage Professional Designation.

Peter Berman is a certified instructor of National Association of Home Builders educational programs and the chief executive officer of The Ruby Group, a construction and consulting firm based in Goshen, N.Y. For more information about Berman please visit http://www.rubygrp.com/index.php

Joseph Tracy is an Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to the President. His primary research interests include unions and collective bargaining as well as housing and urban economics. Prior to joining the New York Fed, Mr. Tracy was an associate professor at Yale University and Columbia University. He holds a B.A. from University of Missouri and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Weil is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Houlihan Lokey. He splits his time between the Washington, D.C. and New York offices. Before joining Houlihan Lokey, he was a co-founder and CEO of Milestone Merchant Partners, LLC and its financial advisory division, Milestone Advisors, LLC. Milestone exclusively focused on financial services clients across the depository institution, specialty finance (including mortgage, commercial and consumer finance), distressed real estate, and financial technology sectors. Mr. Weil has represented a wide array of financial services entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, large banks, insurance companies and broker dealers, governmental entities and asset managers. On the principal front, Mr. Weil and his Milestone team created Sabal Financial Group, an industry-leading purchaser, asset manager and servicer of distressed ADC and CRE loans and MMP Financial Fund I, an investment fund focused on community and regional banks. Prior to starting Milestone, he was a managing director of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company, Inc. (FBR). At FBR, Mr. Weil had significant responsibility for the firm�s day-to-day financial services practice. In addition, he had primary responsibility for building and supervising the group�s M&A investment banking practice, completing approximately 50 transactions during his tenure with the firm. While at FBR, he led several financial institutions buyout deals under a streamlined transaction/financing structure that was pioneered by his team. He was previously senior vice president and general counsel of Hovde Financial, Inc., a bank and thrift M&A boutique and private hedge fund manager. Mr. Weil began his career as a corporate attorney at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his J.D. from The Washington University School of Law.

Shari Olefson�is a bar certified real estate attorney and a Supreme Court certified mediator. Since launching her legal career in 1989, Olefson, a member of the Florida, District of Columbia, and New York Bars, has focused on business and commercial real estate transactions, mediations, and workouts. In addition to her law practice, she has served as the CEO of a Fortune 300 joint venture in banking, real estate law, and title insurance.�She is the author of�Financial Fresh Start, and�Foreclosure Nation: Mortgaging the American Dream.She can be found on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/user/shariolefson?feature=mhee, Twitter at https://twitter.com/ShariOlefson, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shari-Olefson/305416306245627?fref=ts, and LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/shariolefson.

Patti Recser is senior account manager with Platinum Data Solutions, Aliso Viejo, Calif. The company�s telephone number is 877-711-1200 and its website is www.platdata.com.

Working out of MountainView�s New York office, Derek Katz is primarily responsible for sourcing residential whole loan portfolios and identifying trading opportunities for the MountainView Mortgage Opportunities Funds. Mr. Katz also works with clients on the valuation, sale and purchase of residential mortgage servicing rights portfolios. In this role, Derek acts as an intermediary between buyers and sellers and provides insight on the secondary residential mortgage market. Before joining MountainView in 2008, Derek was a director in the Asset Securitization and Finance Group at Natixis Capital Markets and was responsible for all aspects of whole loan and mortgage-backed finance, including the origination and placement of mortgage-backed securities, transaction management and contract finance, portfolio and servicing oversight, and due diligence management. Prior to joining Natixis, he was a vice president in the Mortgage Trading and Finance Group at Credit Suisse First Boston, working primarily on subprime and second-lien whole loan trades and securitizations. Before joining Credit Suisse, Derek was a vice president in the Asset-Backed Securitization and Finance Group at UBS/Paine Webber, where he concentrated on auto leases, credit card receivables, aircraft leases, franchise loans, and mortgages. He earned a bachelor�s degree from Princeton University and holds Series 7 and 63 securities licenses.

Danvers Residential Recovery Fund II is a private real estate investment fund which acquires re-performing and sub performing whole residential mortgage loans. Since 2008 Mr. Brandenburg has managed four closed-end funds specializing in the purchase and resolution of distressed residential real estate assets in the Western United States which have acquired and resolved $260m (unpaid balance) in residential loans. He oversees the valuation, acquisition, and resolution of all loans and REO held in the Fund. Mr. Brandenburg has worked as an executive in the mortgage banking industry for 26 years.