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Amie Riggle Berlin is Senior Trial Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she serves as the lead trial attorney in a broad range of securities enforcement actions.� Ms. Berlin led the S.E.C.'s first trial against a municipality, resulting in a verdict against the City of Miami and its budget director for securities fraud in connection with the City's bond offerings. She also successfully argued the first case concerning whether qualified immunity applies to shield government employees from liability in civil enforcement actions. Among other litigation highlights from Ms. Berlin's ten-year tenure with the S.E.C. are trial verdicts finding defendants liable for: a more than $200 million offering fraud in connection with the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme; a more than $300 million international offering fraud in connection with investments in Regions Bank trust accounts; insider trading in Blue Rhino Corp. stock; and insider trading in Neff Corp. stock. Ms. Berlin has also obtained favorable judgments in various emergency injunctive actions to halt ongoing offering frauds, and in the Administrative Proceeding against investment advisor firm ZPR Investment Management, Inc. and its principal, resulting in findings that false claims of compliance with Global Investment Performance Standards violate the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws.Prior to joining the S.E.C., Ms. Berlin worked as a litigator with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York and with Greenberg Traurig and Akerman Senterfitt in Miami. She served as a federal judicial law clerk to the Honorable Donald L. Graham and the Honorable Barry L. Garber in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.Ms. Berlin obtained her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and her bachelors degree from the University of Florida, where she was inducted into the University Hall of Fame.

Tom Meder, Director, joined TMC Bonds in October 2012 and runs the firm's nationwide new business efforts covering both the sell-side and buy-side. �He also directly manages the overall relationships with our consortium dealer owners. �Prior to TMC, Mr. Meder was an institutional fixed income trader at Tahoe Fixed Income covering both Municipal and Taxable markets (Rates, Credit, and MBS). �Previously, Tom had extensive institutional sales & trading roles at Stone & Youngberg (SVP & Partner), Seattle Northwest (VP-Trading),�Wells Fargo Institutional Brokerage (VP-Sales), and Bankers Trust (Principal-Institutional Sales). �He was also the Senior Portfolio Manager for Hewlett Packard's Treasury Department managing a $500 million fixed income portfolio in addition Hewlett Packard's money market balances. �Mr. Meder holds a BS degree in Finance from San Jose State University.

Jim Koetting is the author of "Public Fund Investing for Dummies" and the CEO of PFITR, a bond accounting and analytics tool.

Robert Campbell is the elected Auditor-Controller for Contra Costa County.�Mr. Campbell has worked for Contra Costa for 30 years.�He received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the California State University, Hayward.�Mr. Campbell was appointed by the State Treasurer to the Task Force on Bond Accountability and by the State Controller to the California Uniform Construction Cost Accounting Commission.�Mr. Campbell is the current Chair of the Legislative Committee for the State Association of County Auditors and is a member of the Association’s Accounting Standards and Procedures committee.��

Kyle Vinson is a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ San Francisco office. He joined the firm in 2009 after two years at a national public financial advisory firm. His responsibilities include covering clients throughout the Western U.S., with a focus on general government, surface transportation, and water issuers, as well as being a member of the firm’s National Airports and Ports coverage team.His experience includes transactions for the Port of Portland, Alaska Airports, San Francisco International Airport, Transbay JPA, Los Angeles Community College District, BAWSCA, and the LACMTA.Kyle earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Pomona College.

Jase Wilson is CEO of Neighborly, a San Francisco and New York based fintech startup modernizing access to public finance for issuers and investors

Leonard Jones is a Managing Director in Moody’s Public Finance Group responsible for credit ratings of Local Governments in the US. Prior to joining Moody’s, Lenny was a Partner at Rice Financial Products Company, where he managed Rice Financials investment banking business and specialized in public infrastructure finance.Lenny was previously a Senior Consultant at ABT Associates, Chief Consultant to the Zambia Privatisation Agency, Vice President at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., Vice President at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. and Assistant Treasurer in the International Department of Chase Manhattan Bank. Lenny has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and an AB in economics from Dartmouth College.

Mr. Schuettler is Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Municipal League where he is responsible for operations of all League programs and services, including Trust/Benefit Services, Municipal Programs, Finance/Administration, Governmental Affairs and Communications.� He currently serves as the 1st Vice Chair of the National League of Cities Mutual Insurance Company. Prior to his employment with the League, Mr. Schuettler served as the City of Pottsville’s Administrator and a member trustee of the League’s PennPRIME Municipal Insurance/Workers’ Compensation Trusts, as well as other League committees. �He holds a B.S. Degree in Business Administration from King’s College and has received numerous certificates in various local government and public administration courses from the Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs, National League of Cities, International City/County Management Association and the Association for Pennsylvania Municipal Management.�

Mr. Mark Salimena has been in the industry for more than 25 years and joined Optimal Capital Group in November 2009.� Mark has managed the successful structuring, pricing, and closing of more than $1 billion of notional amount associated to bond transactions and interest rate hedging products each year since 2003.� He has extensive municipal derivative pricing experience, including product specialization in forward delivery interest rate structures as well as various option agreements.� He is highly regarded in spreadsheet cash-flow/trade-valuation analysis and regularly speaks at industry conferences on Municipal Advisory topics including derivative products. As such, Mark has become familiar with many of the concerns and challenges facing governmental entities. He has considerable experience in implementing debt (including derivative) policies, evaluating and proposing specific structures, and assisting in the negotiation of documentation prior to the execution of any transaction. He has an extensive history and knowledge of underlying bond structures, bond and bond issuer language, and also serves to provide outstanding and consistent client communicationOver the years, Mr. Salimena has served in various roles in the industry including as a financial advisor and swap advisor.� This allows him the opportunity to fully understand the needs of his clients in terms of financial integration and overall risk management.� In addition to Mark’s business experience, he served as Budget Director for the Finance Department of Camden County, New Jersey.�