Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Brian Daily is senior vice president in the strategic alliance group for REO Allegiance, one of the leading national property preservation firms in the U.S.

Steven Meyer is the assistant vice president of high risk and hazard claims for Safeguard Properties. In this role, Steve is responsible for managing our clients' conveyance processes and developing our working relationships with cities and municipalities around the country. He also works directly with our clients in our many outreach efforts and he represents Safeguard at a number of industry conferences each year. Steve joined Safeguard in 1998 as manager over the hazard claims team. He was instrumental in the development and creation of policies, procedures and operating protocol. Under Steve's leadership, the department became one of the largest within Safeguard. In 2002, he assumed responsibility for the newly-formed high risk department, once again building its success. Steve was promoted to director over these two areas in 2007, and he was promoted to assistant vice president in 2012. Prior to joining Safeguard, Steve spent 10 years within the insurance industry, holding a number of positions including multi-line property adjuster, branch claims supervisor, and multi-line and subrogation/litigation supervisor. Steve is a graduate of Grove City College.

George Opelka is senior vice president of Palm Coast, Fla.-based ACI.

Tommy Duncan is the president of Quality Mortgage Services LLC, Brentwood, Tenn. The company provides third-party mortgage audit and compliance reviews.

Jason Marx is vice president and general manager of residential and indirect lending at Minneapolis-based Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.

Timothy R. Burniston joined Wolters Kluwer Financial Services as vice president and senior director of the company’s Risk & Compliance consulting practice in December 2011. He works directly with compliance and risk management executives to help them more effectively navigate an increasingly-complex regulatory environment under the Dodd-Frank Act. He does so drawing upon his experience leading compliance examination programs for more than 35 years at the Federal Reserve Board (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, Burniston was a senior associate director with the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs. While with the Fed, he was tapped by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to help develop the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s large depository institution examination program. Burniston’s main responsibilities at the Fed included monitoring and evaluating its consumer compliance examination and fair lending enforcement programs.Burniston began his regulatory career as an analyst and consumer compliance examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1977 and joined the Fed’s Division of Consumer and Community Affairs shortly thereafter. Burniston left the Fed in 1988 to establish the compliance examination program at the OTS. In 2000, he joined the FDIC to oversee a major redesign of that agency’s consumer compliance examination program. He returned to the Fed in 2005. In addition, Burniston earned an undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and an M.B.A from George Washington University. He is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), and served on the CRCM Advisory Board of the Institute of Certified Bankers.

Mr. Britti joined Ocwen as Executive Vice President in 2011. His responsibilities include Finance and Business Development. Mr. Britti has over 20 years of mortgage and financial services experience. Prior to joining Ocwen, Mr. Britti was Chief Operating Officer for mortgage insurer RMIC. Mr. Britti has also held two positions at Freddie Mac as a Vice President running Field Sales and Pricing & Structured Transactions. Mr. Britti has been a Vice President at Capital One running Thrift and Mortgage Operations. Mr. Britti also has investment experience raising a venture capital fund and working with buy-out firms. After business school, Mr. Britti worked at McKinsey & Company in their financial services industry group. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland and a Masters of Business Administration from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School.

R. Patterson (“Pat”) Jackson is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Sabal Financial Group (“Sabal Financial”), a diversified financial services management firm headquartered in Irvine, California. Sabal Financial specializes in the acquisition and valuation of portfolios of commercial real estate loans (“CRE”) and acquisition, development and construction (“ADC”) loans for commercial and investment banks. Mr. Jackson founded Sabal Financial (formerly known as Milestone Asset Resolution Company, or MARC) in 2009 to provide credit advisory services to banks and private investors with ADC and CRE loans, as well as to provide asset management and servicing for principal investors. He is responsible for the direction, management and business development activities of the company and oversees strategic business initiatives in support of the financial services practice. Under Mr. Jackson’s leadership, Sabal Financial has grown to more than $2.5 billion in assets under management in just two full years of operation. Sabal Financial is active in the acquisition and valuation of both distressed debt and performing loans. The company is a leading provider of financial guidance to investment and commercial banks, including capital assessments based on portfolio and ALLL analysis, and has performed more than 90 bank valuations over the past 24 months.Mr. Jackson is the former CEO and founder of IndyMac Commercial Lending Corporation, which he developed, launched and grew into a leading nationwide small balance commercial and multifamily lending platform with an annualized production of $1 billion. Previously he was CEO of IndyMac’s Specialty Products Group, including the Home Equity and Home Construction Lending divisions and Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, which he acquired from Lehman Brothers and for which he served as Chairman. Under his leadership, loan production of specialty products exceeded $9 billion annually.Mr. Jackson has also served as President and COO of Unitek Miyachi Corporation and held senior leadership positions with Signet Scientific Company and Intecolor Corporation. Pat Jackson obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and a Masters in Business Administration from Winthrop College Graduate School of South Carolina. Mr. Jackson is an accredited Mortgage Professional with the Mortgage Banking Association.

Mr. Sheets is a Senior Principal at Square Mile Capital Management, a $1.5 billion AUM real estate private equity fund, in its New York office. He identifies, structures, and negotiates non-traditional commercial real estate investment opportunities including distressed debt, discounted performing commercial mortgages, preferred equity, mezzanine financing, and real estate enterprise liquidations. During his tenure with Square Mile, Mr. Sheets has sourced, underwritten, and closed the acquisition of commercial mortgage claims across several bespoke transactions. Among other recent investments, Mr. Sheets sourced and led the execution of two separate complex transactions with the FDIC in each of 2010 and 2011 to acquire over 100 controlling interests in $1.3 billion in performing and non-performing commercial mortgage debt that was formerly held on the balance sheet of a single failed banking institution. Donald co-leads each of the two ventures and serves as the primary interface to the FDIC and over 120 community and regional participant banks.Mr. Sheets also recently led the acquisition and formation of a joint venture capitalized to acquire over $630 million in performing and non-performing commercial mortgage debt that was held on the balance sheet of a major money center bank. Donald co-leads the strategic direction, asset management, and financing of the venture. Mr. Sheets also is leading Square Mile’s efforts to pioneer an innovative securitized financing structure collateralized by portfolios of sub-performing commercial mortgage debt. Mr. Sheets has over a dozen years of property acquisition, turnaround, asset management, and restructuring experience across a variety of capital structures, asset types, and geographies.Prior to SMCM, Mr. Sheets initiated a special-situation commercial real estate investment platform at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a $14 billion AUM multi-strategy hedge fund, in its New York office. While at DKCM, Donald sourced, underwrote, and managed over $1.1 billion in risk-based capital exposure across 40+ transactions, a vast majority of which were unleveraged. Prior to DKCM, Mr. Sheets worked for The Carlyle Group, EastBanc, and Starwood Urban Investments.Mr. Sheets is appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at both Columbia University and New York University, where he developed and currently teaches the first graduate-level distressed real estate investing coursework within each university's curriculum.Donald received a BBA in Accounting and Real Estate Finance from The George Washington University magna cum laude and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Sheets serves as the Co-President of the Harvard Business School Real Estate Alumni Association and presently serves as an appointed Council Member of the Urban Land Institute Public-Private Partnership Council.