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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    Mr. Eaddy joined Estrada Hinojosa and opened the Firm’s New York City office in December 2010 in midtown Manhattan. He brings over 30 years of banking, rating agency, insurer, and legal municipal finance expertise, which includes a diversity of water and sewer, various transportation-related, housing, general obligation, school district, student loan, higher education, public/private partnership, taxable municipal, municipal lease and short-term note transaction experience.Mr. Eaddy began his career as an associate with Hawkins, Delafield & Wood in New York City. His career includes a combined nine years as a senior analyst at MBIA, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch Ratings. Mr. Eaddy headed the Public Finance department at LaSalle Financial Services in Chicago 2006 – 2007 and helped M.R. Beal & Company reopen its Chicago office in 2005. He has worked at Siebert Brandford Shank, Prudential-Bache Capital Funding, and Cabrera Capital Markets as well.A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law and The Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Eaddy maintains General Securities Representative, Municipal Securities Principal, and Uniform State Agent licenses and is slated to take the Series 50 exam in the ensuing months.

    Jorge Hernandez, serves as Aerostar’s Chief Financial Officer.� Prior to that Mr. Hernandez served as Chief Financial Officer for Onelink Communications. Previous work experience includes:Director-Finance for Telefonica Moviles, in Madrid, SpainDirector & Regional Controller for Bellsouth International, a subsidiary of BellSouth CorporationArthur Andersen LLP.�His international experience includes start-up, development and integration of various international ventures in Latin America.�Mr. Hernandez holds a BBA in Accounting Cum Laude from the University of Puerto Rico and is a Certified Public Accountant.� �He has served as a board member for the PR Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth-Parkville Schools and currently serves as a member of the board of the PR Down Syndrome Foundation and the PR State Society of CPA’s Innovation & Technology Committee.RECOGNITION-AWARDSSelected by CableFax Magazine (major US industry magazine) as the Independent Finance Executive of the Year 2011 (Top Ops Awards 2011)Recognized by the UPR Business School Alumni (AFAE) as Distinguished Alumni November 2010Named Distinguished Business Entrepreneur by the PR Chamber of Commerce PYMES committee in March 2009Selected by the Caribbean Business as one of the top 40 leading executives under 40 (in 2008)

    Bryan Kendro is Vice President for Project Development at Star America Infrastructure Partners, an independent US headquartered developer and manager of greenfield infrastructure assets in North America.� Star’s investors include US contractors, pension funds and insurance companies.Prior to joining Star Bryan formed Public Solutions and Strategies bringing more than a decade of public sector experience at both the State and Federal level to his clients.Most recently Bryan was the director of the Office of Policy & Public Private Partnerships at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.� Under his leadership, the Commonwealth reached financial close on the Rapid Bridge Replacement P3 Project, which will replace 558 bridges across the Commonwealth in 3 years.Before joining the Corbett Administration and PennDOT, Bryan was a long time aide to Congressman Jim Gerlach both in Washington D.C. and as his District Director in Pennsylvania.� While in Washington he served as a senior policy advisor and liaison to the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

    Neal Attermann is a Director and Co-Head of the Airport Finance Group and the Director of Citi’s Aviation PPP Practice. He has over 25 years of experience as senior managing underwriter on a variety of airport, airline and aviation project financings and has senior managed over $25 billion in financings. He has served as a lead banker to airport clients, such as Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Denver International Airport, Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, O’Hare International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Massachusetts Port Authority and Los Angeles International Airport. He has served as senior underwriter to a number of airlines for their tax-exempt special facility financings including American Airlines, British Airways, Delta Air Lines, FedEx, JetBlue Airways and United Airlines. Earlier this year he was lead banker for the transaction to finance the redevelopment of Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport by the private consortium, LaGuardia Gateway Partners in a public-private partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.� It was the largest AMT, airport and P3 transaction in municipal market history.� Neal has a JD from Tulane University and a BA from Vanderbilt University.

    Tim B. Keith serves as chief executive officer of Texas Central Partners (TCP), a private, Texas-based company that is developing a high-speed passenger railway that will connect Dallas and Houston.As a seasoned executive and investor with nearly 25 years of financial and operational experience in large real estate and infrastructure projects, Mr. Keith has developed key relationships and perspectives critical to TCP’s success.Mr. Keith previously co-founded and served as chief investment officer of HKS Capital Advisors, a boutique investment advisory firm founded in 2011. HKS Capital Advisors provides investment advisory services and fund management expertise to high net worth investors with a focus on private enterprise transactions.Prior to HKS Capital Advisors, Mr. Keith was formerly the Global Chief Executive Officer of RREEF/Deutsche Bank Infrastructure Investments, where he managed the worldwide operations of the firm’s infrastructure funds management businesses. He had a 10-year career with RREEF/Deutsche Bank, a New York-based global alternative asset management firm, where he held various senior executive positions and served on the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He was a partner of RREEF America LLC, prior to its acquisition by Deutsche Bank and served as chief executive officer of Cabot Industrial Trust after he led its privatization on behalf of RREEF clients.Previous to RREEF, Mr. Keith served as an executive at Hunt Realty Investments where he helped found, grow, and sell Meridian Industrial Trust.Mr. Keith currently serves as a member of the Westmont College board of trustees, and was formerly chairman of Maher Terminals, USA board of directors and a member of Maher Terminals’ Canada board of directors. He also served on the board of Spark Infrastructure in Australia.Mr. Keith graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and business administration from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He and his wife Susan reside in Dallas and have two children.

    Mr. Effron has over 14 years of investment banking experience focused on transportation clients, project financings and P3 transactions. Since joining the firm’s Public Sector & Infrastructure Group in 2005, he has helped support and lead a variety strategic advisory and financing projects. Relevant experience includes serving as sole underwriter on Lehigh County Authority’s acquisition financing of the City of Allentown Water & Sewer Concession; sole underwriter on Capital Beltway Funding Corporation of Virginia Concession financing (VDOT’s I-495 HOT Lane P3); underwriter on TxDOT’s Grand Parkway Transportation Corporation (SH-99), State Highway and Mobility Fund credits; Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, the Turnpike Authority of Kentucky; Kentucky Asset / Liability Commission (GARVEE); MassDOT; State of Wisconsin’s Transportation Revenue and Petroleum Inspection Fee credits, State of Ohio GARVEEs and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. To date, Mr. Effron has worked on over $15 billion of senior managed financings for transportation clients.Mr. Effron graduated from James Madison University with a BS in Integrated Science and Technology.

    James Kuhr is a Research Associate with the Network Modeling Center at The University of Texas Center for Transportation Research (UT-CTR). Mr. Kuhr believes that transportation must become smarter, and he has tailored his research at CTR to focus on short- and long-range mobility planning for connected and autonomous vehicles.�His current projects include examining the impending implementation of autonomous vehicles and connected infrastructure for the North Central Texas Council of Governments, organizing and analyzing transportation-related data as contemplated in the CTR Data Rodeo Project, and working on the Texas Department of Transportation-sponsored advanced vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology prototypes. Mr. Kuhr draws on deep experience in public/private partnership financing and contracting and alternative delivery (design-build) construction methods from time working in business development for two of the world’s largest construction/concession companies.� In 2007, Mr. Kuhr�received a�B.S. in civil engineering (with a focus on transportation) from Texas A & M University. He received a J.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010

    Tony joined Cintra in 2013, and is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships to further Cintra's P3 business development activities with public sector stakeholders and potential equity partners in North America. Prior to Cintra, Tony worked as a P3 bid director for Bilfinger Project Investments and previously worked at Tutor Perini Corporation and Lend Lease Americas. Tony has worked on numerous public private partnerships including, Iqaluit Airport (Canada), Ohio River Bridges/East End Crossing, Army Hawaii Military Housing and Privatization of Army Lodging.Tony holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and International Business from New York University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting with honors from the University of Massachusetts.

    Vince is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory practice.� He has over 20 years of international experience in the financing, development and procurement of infrastructure projects. This work has included submission of development proposals, feasibility and Value for Money analysis, assessment and assignment of project risks, negotiating and closing commercial and financial transactions, development of procurement documents and evaluation of proposals. Prior to joining KPMG, Vince worked for an international construction firm where he led the development of private transportation projects. He also worked as a bridge engineer on publicly and privately financed transit and viaduct projects in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and Thailand.

    Mr. Burns joined DART in 2015 with 15 years of wide-ranging experience in public finance. Previously, he was a senior vice president with Siebert Brandford Shank, working as a municipal bond investment banker. Before that, he served as an executive vice president at Estrada Hinojosa, working as bond financial advisor and investment banker for several major Texas bond issuers.From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Burns served as executive director of the Texas Public Finance Authority (TPFA), leading the issuance of over $2 billion in bonds to finance capital needs and other programs for 23 state agencies. As director of TPFA, he was also responsible for managing bond proceeds, making debt service payments, and monitoring compliance for over $4 billion in state debt.Prior to his service with the State of Texas, Mr. Burns worked for over eight years as a vice president/senior analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. As a public finance bond analyst, he led the issuance of credit ratings for several of the nation’s largest bond issuers, including Houston, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, etc.Mr. Burns is a sixth generation Texas native, with a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas’ LBJ School. In addition to his public finance work, Mr. Burns also served as an advisor to the Austin City Council and as a policy analyst for the Texas Senate.