Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Bob is the Vice President of Airport Affairs for Southwest Airlines in Dallas, Texas, and is responsible for acquiring and developing all of Southwests� facilities nationwide. Additionally, he is responsible for representing Southwest to all airport operators and City Governments, and works with them to develop Capital and operating budgets and development programs. Bob has been with Southwest since 1977, and has held positions in the Operating and Finance Departments prior to filling the Properties and Facilities and Airport Affairs role. Bob has been responsible for the acquisition, design, and construction of more than 85% of all facilities occupied by Southwest, including all airport space, reservations centers, maintenance hangars, data centers, training centers, headquarters and other facilities. He has also been involved in most of the major airport developement projects occuring in the United States since 1984. He serves on the Oversight Committee for the Airport Cooperative Research Program (the ACRP) at the request of the Secretary of Transportation. The ACRP conducts and publishes research related to various Airport Issues, and Bob is the first Airline representative to sit on the Oversite Committee. Bob holds degrees in Finance from Texas Tech University, and a Masters of Theological Studies from Ave Maria University.

Hector Negroni is the Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of Fundamental Credit Opportunities (FCO). He has been a pioneer in the municipal market for over 25 years, leading innovation in proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions. Prior to forming FCO, Hector was the head of municipal trading at Goldman Sachs, overseeing all capital commitments, including flow trading, proprietary trading, money markets, lending and structured products. Before joining Goldman, he worked at Soci�t� G�n�rale, Lazard Fr�res and Citigroup in different proprietary and structuring roles. Hector earned a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

After 34 years of public service, including 24 years as an elected official, Governor Rendell continues to pursue many of the same issues he was passionate about while serving.� His commitment to making America a cleaner, more efficient place and to fostering investment in our nation�s crumbling infrastructure is as strong as it has ever been.� Rendell has become a champion for progress in the area of alternative energy, and now serves as a consultant or board member for several green and alternative energy firms, including Own Energy, Element Partners and VNG.co. He has also remained heavily involved in the campaign for government efficiency and strategic cost cutting through his work with entities such as Government Sourcing Solutions and Public Financial Management. Perhaps no other issue has been and continues to be as important to Governor Rendell as America�s dire need to rebuild and reinvest in its infrastructure.� As Governor, Rendell worked with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to create an organization called �Building America�s Future.�� The organization focuses on the need for a more significant investment in American infrastructure projects to ensure that America maintains its place as a global economic power.� Governor Rendell currently serves as Co-Chair of the organization and travels throughout the country speaking about this issue.������ ����Governor Rendell also recently penned his first book, A Nation of Wusses: How America�s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great.� In A Nation of Wusses, Rendellchronicles his storied political career with his trademark candor while making a strong statement about the state of American leadership.� Rendell served two terms as Governor of Pennsylvania (2003-2011) and oversaw a budget of $28.3 billion as the chief executive of the nation�s 6th-most-populous state.�� As Governor, Rendell was committed to making government more responsible and responsive to the public�s needs, and he successfully cut wasteful spending and improved efficiency leading to savings of over $1 billion.� His legislative agenda focused on commonsense political reform and putting progress ahead of partisanship.� Through his unprecedented strategic investments, he energized Pennsylvania�s economy, revitalized communities, improved education, protected the environment, expanded access to health care to all children, and made affordable prescription drugs available to older Pennsylvanians. During his two terms as Mayor of Philadelphia (1992-2000), Rendell eliminated a crippling deficit, balanced the City�s budget, and generated five consecutive budget surpluses. Philadelphia�s renaissance, which The New York Times called �the most stunning turnaround in recent urban history,� is largely attributed to his determination, inspiration, and energy. Before serving as Mayor, Rendell was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 through 1985. Rendell also served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 Presidential election.� He currently sits on several boards, is a Brookings Fellow and teaches government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania.� An Army veteran, he holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova Law School.

Eric I. Bustillo currently serves as the Regional Director of the Miami Regional Office (�MIRO�) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (�SEC�). As Regional Director, he is responsible for leading the functions of the MIRO, including the supervision of the office�s Enforcement and Examination programs, which jurisdiction covers the States of Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The MIRO employs numerous professionals, including attorneys, accountants, and examiners, as well as support personnel who are assigned to these programs. Between March 1995 and February 2010, Mr. Bustillo was employed by the United States Attorney�s Office for the Southern District of Florida (�USAO-SDFL�) as an Assistant United States Attorney (�AUSA�) where for the last five years of his tenure with the office he served as Chief of the USAO-SDFL�s Economic & Environmental Crimes Section, in charge of supervising a group of AUSAs and other professionals. Mr. Bustillo supervised and prosecuted criminal matters involving, among other things, securities/corporate fraud, health care fraud, environmental crimes, commodities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, and/or money laundering violations. Between February 1990 and March 1995, Mr. Bustillo was employed by the SEC�s Miami Office where he last served as Chief of one of the office�s Enforcement Branches, in charge of supervising a group of enforcement attorneys and an accountant. He supervised and prosecuted complex matters involving, among other things, financial fraud, insider trading, stock manipulation, fraudulent sale of unregistered securities, broker-dealer/investment adviser fraudulent practices, and corporate accounting controls violations. Prior to joining the SEC, Mr. Bustillo worked, briefly, at a private law firm doing commercial litigation and some corporate/real estate transactional work. Mr. Bustillo currently serves as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Litigation Skills Program at the University of Miami School of Law where he teaches Trial Advocacy Skills. He also is a frequent speaker at white collar crime seminars around the country.

John is Director of Business Development and Marketing for TMC Bonds, which he joined at its inception in July of 2000. His duties include relationship management with buy side accounts, exploring and implementing new business initiatives, working with senior technology staff on product development, and managing the firm’s sales and marketing Prior to joining TMC, he spent over 20 years in various capacities in the municipal bond market.� From 1979 to 1993, he worked at Bankers Trust Co. (later BT Securities) in multiple capacities, including institutional sales, competitive underwriting, secondary trading, as manager of the short-term desk, and finally as manager of the trading desk.In 1993, he joined Merrill Lynch as manager of the Tax-Exempt Money Markets department, where he was responsible for marketing all variable rate product (including derivatives) and for risk management in the front end of the market.� In 1999, he joined the Public Finance Department, where he managed the origination function for all municipal short-term products. John graduated from Princeton University with an AB in History and earned his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Bernard Bailey is a Managing Director, Public Finance at Assured Guaranty with a primary focus on maintaining and expanding Assured Guaranty�s institutional client base. During his career spanning more than 30 years including both the banking and sales sides, Mr. Bailey has held positions at major dealer firms including Lazard Freres and Bear Stearns covering major hedge fund and distressed debt platforms. �Prior to joining Assured Guaranty, he was most recently with First Southwest.Mr. Bailey is a member of The Bond Club of New York and The Municipal Bond Club of New York.

Christopher Baron joined The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. in January 2014 as a Managing Director in the Public Finance Group. He is responsible for managing state and local government clients and prospects, including the origination and structuring of lines of credit, direct loans and placements, standby bond purchase agreements, and letters of credit.Previously, Chris led a team of 15 bankers at U.S. Bank focused on serving large education and nonprofit sector clients on a national level and covered governmental issuers in the Western United States. Prior to that he was a managing director at The Bank of New York Mellon/BNY Capital Markets, Inc. where he was responsible for the public finance division�s municipal business in the western half of the country.�Based in Los Angeles, Chris has been involved in the credit enhancement and liquidity markets since the early 1990s. While working for multiple financial institutions, Chris has provided credit enhancement and/or liquidity support to hundreds of tax-exempt issuers throughout the nation.�Chris is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.