Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Since 1978, the founder of our company, Richard Baggott, has been active in the Broker Dealer community through municipal sales, training, management and executive recruiting."He knows public finance inside out,” said a recently satisfied Public Finance Manager.Richard became a search consultant in 1989 after 9 years as a retail municipal bond sales person, trainer, manager, and brokerage owner.� In an independent survey, Richard’s clients said there are three things they most appreciate about him:Richard has a thorough industry knowledgeHe never wastes their timeHe knows almost every manager and banker in the countryAlthough colleagues and competitors tell many stories about Richard and his award-winning accomplishments, he is a “legend” in the collective minds of one client company for his recruitment of an entire capital markets group without word getting out on the street or any negative raiding repercussions.� Ask him to fill in the details.A graduate of Arizona State University and a Vietnam veteran, Richard lives and works near the foothills of the breath-taking Rocky Mountains.� He enjoys biking, swimming, ballroom dancing, and computer programming. But his favorite activities include those shared with his wife, Mary, and their three children - Darrin, Todd and his youngest Erin Rose, who has joined him in the recruiting business seven years ago.�

At Franklin and Marshall College, Dr. Madonna is Director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs, Professor of Public Affairs, and Director of the Franklin and Marshall College Poll. He joined F&M in May, 2004.For more than 30 years, Madonna has taught and written about his two academic specialties:� the American presidency, and American political parties and political behavior.� As a pollster in recent years, he has written extensively about voters and voting behavior. He holds a Ph.D. in political history from the University of Delaware.Before joining the faculty at Franklin and Marshall, Dr. Madonna was Professor and Chair of the Government Department and headed the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Millersville University.Director and Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg-based evening division, Master of Governmental Administration Program, 1980-1986. Master's Degree granted originally by Wharton School and then the School of Public and Urban Policy: administered evening division graduate program of approximately 125 graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in government.Madonna founded the Keystone Poll in 1992, the oldest survey produced exclusively in Pennsylvania. In 2008, the Keystone Poll was renamed the Franklin and Marshall College Poll.� In this capacity, he is the pollster for the Philadelphia Daily News, Times-Shamrock Newspapers, WPVI-ABC6 (Philadelphia), WGAL-TV (Lancaster), Harrisburg Patriot News/Pennlive, LNP, The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, WTAE-TV (Pittsburgh), and The Reading Eagle - media partners for the poll. He has also polled for KYW-TV (Philadelphia), Fox, 29-TV (Philadelphia), CN8-The Comcast Network, WITF-TV (Harrisburg).In 2008, Franklin and Marshall College began a partnership with Hearst TV to conduct national polls. Hearst owns 26 television stations, manages two others, and owns two radio stations. Madonna directs the poll.He is also the host of Pennsylvania Newsmakers, a weekly statewide news and commentary program. He writes (with Michael Young) a bi-weekly political commentary column, “Politically Uncorrected,” originally for Capitolwire.com and later for Politicspa.com, the state’s leading political website. The column appears in many state and national newspapers and also appears frequently on two national websites: stateline.org and realclearpolitics.com.He is a regular analyst for WGAL-TV (Lancaster/Harrisburg). Madonna is a regular panelist on WPVI’s-TV (Philadelphia) commentary program, Inside Story. He is a frequent guest on many talk radio programs throughout the state and nation.� He has also provided election coverage for WHYY-TV, public television in Philadelphia, WPVI-TV (Philadelphia), and WITF-TV. Madonna was also a regular panelist on The Peoples’ Business, a weekly news and commentary show broadcast throughout Pennsylvania on public television during the 1990’s.A frequent political analyst and public affair's commentator, Madonna has also provided analysis to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, U.S.A.Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, CNN, ABC News and CBS News, to name a few.�� Madonna has appeared on CNN's Inside Politics, CBS News, ABC News, C-Span, Fox News, MSNBC and NBC News.� He has also contributed to political web sites for MSNBC, the Hill Newspaper, Real Clear Politics, Stateline, and Fox News.The author of numerous publications in the fields of American history, American government, and American politics, Madonna has written Revolutionary Lancaster: The Leadership (1976); Reapportionment: A Primer for Pennsylvanians (1993); Merit Selection of Appellate Judges: Why Its Time Has Come (1994); Pennsylvania Votes, 1994, (1995) (with Berwood Yost); and Pennsylvania Votes:� Presidential Primaries, 1972-1992: A Sourcebook (1996) (with Berwood Yost); Pivotal Pennsylvania: Presidential Politics from FDR to the Twenty-First Century (2008); Political Pennsylvania: The New Century (2014) with Michael Young) as well as chapters in books and articles in specialized publications. His writings have appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, The Polling Report, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Pennsylvania History, Intellect, Academe, The Journal of Practical Politics, and the Fox News and The Hill Newspaper, as well as in many other places.Madonna delivered the Jefferson Educational Society lecture in 2014. In 2012, Madonna delivered the annual Edmund Notebaert Lecture at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In 2010, he delivered one of the Jefferson Global Initiative lectures. In 2008, he delivered the annual Chautauqua Lecture at Gannon University, entitled “The Road to the White House.”� In 2007, he delivered two major lectures; the annual James Buchanan Foundation lecture, entitled “From Buchanan to Bush: Campaign Practices Then and Now,” and the annual Dwight D. Eisenhower Society Lecture, entitled, “The Political Skills and Leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower.” In 2006, he gave the Neaman Foundation lecture. In 1992 at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, he gave the lecture, “Thaddeus Stevens: How He Would Have Viewed Contemporary American Politics.”Madonna has served on numerous governmental boards and commissions: including former Governor Edward Rendell’s Higher Education Advisory Board, the Benjamin Franklin Partnership Board (appointed by former Governor Dick Thornburgh), and the Board of Embreeville State Hospital (appointed by former Governor Milton Shapp).� He served in the early 1970's as a Lancaster County Commissioner. He served on the Education Policy and Leadership Center board from 2002 to 2013.At the request of foreign embassies and the U.S. State Department, Madonna has appeared in seminars and discussions with diplomats and newspaper reporters from around the world.In addition, Madonna has moderated gubernatorial, congressional, state legislative and school board forums, and debates for various organizations.Dr. Madonna has received numerous awards and honors. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Professor award by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the President’s Medallion at Millersville University, and a special commendation for scholarship and leadership from the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education.Additionally, he has been named an “Outstanding Speaker of the Year” by the Speech Communication Society of Pennsylvania, has served as a Commonwealth Speaker by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and was given the Daniel Roselle Award by the Middle States Council for the Social Studies.

Dick Larkin is director of credit analysis at Stoever Glass & Co.

Alexander L.�Scarola focuses his practice on public finance, project finance, P3 transactions�and commercial lending. Alex has served as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, bank’s counsel, purchaser’s counsel, disclosure counsel, swap counsel and credit enhancer’s counsel in numerous tax-exempt and taxable financing transactions, including general obligation, public utilities, multifamily housing, 501(c)(3), higher education, stadium, industrial development and health care.

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez is proud to represent California's 46th Congressional District, which includes the cities of Anaheim, Santa Ana, Orange and Garden Grove in Orange County.Rep. Sanchez began her congressional career in January of 1997 and is currently serving her tenth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. She holds senior positions on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee. She is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and serves as the co-chair of the Immigration Task Force.As a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), Rep. Sanchez is a recognized leader on military and national security issues. She currently serves as the Ranking Member of the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee, where she works to prepare our Armed Forces for a new generation of security challenges. Rep. Sanchez is also a member of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, making sure our nation is appropriately prepared for any missile or nuclear attacks.As the founder and co-chair of the Women in the Military Caucus, Rep. Sanchez advocates for female service members to serve in combat roles and fights to stamp out sexual assault in the armed forces. She passed a long-shot bill that updated sexual assault provisions in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, as well as a bill to create a sexual assault database.Rep. Sanchez has also served on the House Homeland Security Committee (HSC) since its inception after the 9/11 attacks and is a senior member. She serves on the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, focused on keeping our land and sea borders safe and secure as well as the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies. On the HSC, Rep. Sanchez addresses issues ranging from immigration reform to human trafficking to oversight of surveillance programs.In addition to her committee work, Rep. Sanchez gives Orange County a strong voice in Congress. She stays connected by traveling back to California nearly every weekend, regularly visiting schools and businesses and meeting with residents. She is committed to facilitating job creation, reducing crime, supporting quality educational opportunities and increasing access to affordable health care for everyone.A product of public schools and Head Start, Sanchez is a graduate of Chapman University and American University's MBA program. Prior to serving in Congress, Sanchez worked in the financial markets, with firms including Booz Allen Hamilton and Fieldman Rolapp.

Chris Mier is President of Rosebud Strategies LLC

Michael Liikala is CEO and Managing Partner of Solutions International, a firm focused on helping leading firms enter the U.S. and international markets in the infrastructure, renewable energy and technology sectors including high speed rail and various public private partnership (P3) projects. SI has gained a reputation as a highly competent and efficient advisor to select Fortune 1000 and newly emerging firms. SI works with clients to build a custom team of advisors as well as market experts for each tailored strategy. These experts are selected based on Mr. Liikala’s almost 30 years of international business experience working with private and public sector leaders and as a senior U.S. Diplomat. Their advisor relationships include leading U.S. legal, consulting and investment banking firms often working on an exclusive basis with SI.Before returning to the private sector, Mr. Liikala had a distinguished and highly recognized career spanning over 20 years of service in senior U.S Government positions. His last assignment was as the Director of International Strategic Alliances for the U.S. Commercial Service (CS) and leader of the CS California Trade Partnership initiative. In this role he advised and developed trade and investment strategies for the CS worldwide and for the State of California and its firms. He also advanced and helped organize Governor Schwarzenegger’s trips to Asia, which helped create new business opportunities for numerous firms in China, Japan and Hong Kong.From 2000-2004, Mr. Liikala served as Senior Commercial Officer, SCO, in the U.S Embassy in Spain and oversaw the commercial operations for the United States through offices in Madrid and Barcelona. He and his team assisted Boeing, G.E., General Dynamics and Cisco as well as over 200 small and medium sized firms enter or expand operations there in sectors as diverse as energy, technology and franchising. As head of the Commercial Service in Spain, he was tasked by the White House to put together Joint Ventures for the rebuilding of Iraq between US and Spanish firms. He helped coordinate CEO level meetings with US and Spanish firms which led to key infrastructure projects for example helping CH2MHilll to create a joint venture for water infrastructure in the Middle East. Prior to Madrid he served 4 years as SCO in Buenos Aires where Mr. Liikala had an extraordinary record of achievement in commercial diplomacy including opening the market for over 350 U.S firms, serving as acting Ambassador and helping a U.S. firm win the concession on the privatization of all 33 airports in Argentina, the largest such privatization in history.In the United States, Mr. Liikala served as Western Regional Director for the U.S. Department of Commerce, managing 33 offices in 13 states. In that role he developed and implemented, with Secretary Ron Brown, the California Initiative, creating a state-wide partnership to assist firms commercialize their technologies and expand their sales abroad. As part of this initiative, he led the development, funding and launching of TradePort, now one of the top 10 international trade websites. From 1988-1992 Mr. Liikala established and directed the first Western Regional operations for the Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) with responsibilities for regulating and advising companies on export regulations affecting over $90 billion dollars in exports annually.Previous to these field positions, Mr. Liikala worked in Washington, D.C. as Chief of Staff for the Under Secretary of Commerce (1984-88), where he helped manage a 700 person organization responsible for U.S. Trade Laws and the complex U.S. Export Control Regulations. He led the team of negotiators who successfully concluded multi-billion dollar voluntary restraint agreements with Japan and Taiwan and was the Commerce lead on negotiations with developing countries during the 1980’s debt crisis. In addition, from 1981-1984, he was the Senior Trade Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and was responsible for developing Commerce Department positions for Secretary Malcolm Baldridge and the Cabinet-level committee on U.S. International Economic Policy.Mr. Liikala has also worked in the U.S. Treasury Department on International Investment issues and on the United States Senate Banking Committee, where he was involved in the drafting and passage of the Export Administration Act, the Export Trading Company Act, and the Congressional review of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Prior to this, Mr. Liikala started and ran his own successful international trading firm and worked as a legislative analyst at the California State Legislature.Mr. Liikala has a Masters Degree from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in International Law/Economics and a Masters Degree in Finance and Public Administration from the University of Southern California. He received a BA in Law and Public Policy from the University of California. He has lectured and spoken to business groups worldwide, including Executive programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford School of Engineering, the University of California and leading think tanks and is often quoted in business media including the Wall Street Journal and foreign business press.

Mr. Gold has over 25 years of experience providing investment banking services to a variety of transportation and infrastructure clients in the public and private sector, having led over $20 billion of financing assignments. Mr. Gold's transportation clients have included the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, the North Texas Tollway Authority, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Riverside County Transportation Authority, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, the Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority, and the Mississippi Department of Transportation. His P3 financing experience includes, among others, the concessions for the Highway 407 Express Toll Route in Toronto, the Northwest Parkway in Colorado, the North Tarrant Express and LBJ IH-635 projects in Texas, and the I-285/SR 400 Project in Georgia.� Mr. Gold earned a BS from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

David Wylie is Director, Primary Investments for John Laing in New York.� He is responsible for originating, developing and structuring equity investments in major infrastructure projects in the United States and Canada.With over a decade of experience in PPP investments in the US, Canada, Singapore and UK, he has worked in the highways and bridges, transit, healthcare, education, street lighting, defense and water sectors.In 2013-14, he led John Laing’s successful bid and closing on the I-4 Ultimate Project, Florida – the largest availability-based P3 deal in the United States to date.� Other deal experience includes Ohio River Bridges, Indiana/Kentucky; Purple Line, Maryland; and the Automated People Mover project at Los Angeles International Airport, currently in procurement.David holds a B.A. History and Politics from the Queen’s University of Belfast and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business.