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.
Latest NewsWill Hill, MBA, is the owner of Will Hill Consults LLC. Prior to launching his consulting business, he was senior product marketing manager at Thomson Reuters.
Joshua Ronen is a professor of accounting at New York University Stern School of Business and co-editor of the "Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting." Professor Ronen teaches courses in managerial accounting, financial accounting, advanced topics in financial accounting, and financial statements analysis. Ronen has been with NYU Stern for nearly 45 years. His primary research areas include capital markets, disclosure, earning management, economic impact of accounting rules and regulations, financial reporting, legal liability of firms, transfer pricing, agency theory, corporate governance, and fair valuation. Ronen has written numerous books including "Accounting and Financial Globalization," "Off-Balance Sheet Activities," "Entrepreneurship," "Smoothing Income Numbers: Objectives, Means and Implications," and "Earnings Management." He has been published in many academic journals including and publications including The New York Times, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Abacus, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, and Journal of Financial Markets. In addition to his work at NYU Stern, Ronen has lectured at University of Canterbury, Tel-Aviv University, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, National University of Mexico, University of Toronto, University of Chicago, Hebrew University, and London School of Economics among many others. He has also been a consultant for numerous organizations, including especially law firms as expert witness in the area of securities litigation. His suggestions for reform in the accounting profession have received critical acclaim by legislators and in the media. Ronen received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Accounting at Hebrew University in Israel, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University. Professor Ronen is also a licensed CPA in Israel.
Gregory A. Bocchino, partner – tax at KPMG LLP, is the national leader of KPMG's Accounting Methods and Credits practice and has more than 20 years of federal income tax accounting methods and credits experience.
Chaitanya Ejner, senior associate – tax, KPMG LLP, has considerable experience in the R&D credit space across industries such as financial services and IT engineering working directly with client engineers to qualify and support R&D credit claims. He also works closely with a team of engineers and business experts in developing and automating credit claims processes.
Tom is a Principal in the Health practice and leads the voluntary benefits team at Buck, an integrated HR, pensions, and employee benefits consulting firm. For more than 20 years he has helped some of the country's largest and most respected employers design voluntary benefit programs that deliver on business objectives and drive greater employee engagement.
Gadi Shamia is the CEO and co-founder of Replicant, a leader in Contact Center Automation. Replicant helps companies automate their most common customer service calls while empowering agents to focus on more complex and nuanced customer challenges with natural sounding conversations. Prior to Replicant, Gadi helped to take Talkdesk from a seed-stage company to a Unicorn startup as its COO, and played a key role in architecting and executing its 20X growth in people and revenue. Gadi also held board roles at EchoSign (acquired by Adobe), Intacct (acquired by Sage), Algolia, and Talkdesk.
Avery Joshua is a senior manager in consulting solutions at PwC US. She joined the firm in 2010, working with clients on regulatory and compliance issues. In 2020, she joined the CEO Action for Racial Equity Fellowship, where she focused on helping advance transparency and accountability in policing through public policy. She is currently helping clients achieve their business goals by leveraging cloud and digital technologies.
Corey Tucker is the Director of Innovation and Senior Product Manager at commute management platform RideAmigos.
As the General Manager of Dayforce Wallet & Consumer Services at Ceridian, Seth Ross brings nearly 20 years' of experience to oversee the development, launch, and implementation of Dayforce Wallet, Ceridian's market-leading pay solution that enables employees to access their earned wages at any time.
Prior to joining Ceridian, Ross led Green Dot Corporation's Banking-as-a-Service business, where he helped build new, embedded financial services businesses with partners like Apple, Uber, Intuit, Stash and others. Before that, he led the global airline partnerships strategy for American Express and helped launch Amex Advance, a division focused on data commercialization.
Ross holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Ivey Business School at Western University in London, Ontario, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Zain Hasan is co-founder and CEO of RTA Venture Partners.









