Teams

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  Seán W. McCarthy

  Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer; Chair, Investment Committee and Member, Risk Committee

  Seán McCarthy co-founded Build America Mutual Assurance Company, the first mutual municipal bond insurer, in July 2012. Prior to that, he was President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO), following its acquisition of Financial Security Assurance (FSA) in July 2009. He was formerly President and COO of FSA. Mr. McCarthy joined FSA in 1988 as head of the Asia-Pacific business, opening that market for public finance. He subsequently headed all business groups prior to becoming COO and, in that position, was instrumental in developing the necessary resources for FSA to enter the municipal business in 1990. He also chaired the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers from 2006 to 2011. In earlier positions, Mr. McCarthy was a vice-president in the municipal group of PaineWebber and served at E. F. Hutton in the public finance group. He graduated from Georgetown University (BA,1982).
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  Clarence Anthony

  Chairman of the Board; Chair, Risk Committee; Member, Audit Committee and Human Resources Committee

  Clarence E. Anthony serves as CEO and Executive Director of the National League of Cities (NLC), the oldest and largest organization of municipal officials in the United States, representing more than 2000 cities and towns. Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of NLC, Mr. Anthony served as President of Anthony Government Solutions, a consulting firm to government and private sector organizations, and was previously Mayor of South Bay, Florida, for 24 years. Mr. Anthony has been on the forefront of politics in the United States and internationally for the past 20 years, and served as President of both the Florida League of Cities and the National League of Cities. He also served as First Vice President of International Union of Local Authorities and as Founding Treasurer of United Cites and Local Governments (UCLG), the international voice for local governments, and as the Interim Manager for UCLG. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with specialization in City Growth Management Policy from Florida Atlantic University.
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  Manning Rountree

  Director; Member, Human Resources Committee and Risk Committee

  Manning Rountree is the Chief Executive Officer of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (WTM), a publicly-traded, Bermuda-domiciled holding company for insurance and financial services interests around the world. He was formerly President of White Mountains Capital, where he oversaw transactions, mergers and acquisitions and new business development. From 2009 to 2014, he also served as President of White Mountains Advisors, the company’s in-house asset management operation.
  Prior to joining WTM in 2004, Manning was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, focused on the insurance, asset management and financial services sectors, and the Director of Corporate Development for Putnam Investments, a Boston-based asset management company.
  Manning has a BS in Mathematical Economics and a BA in English, Summa Cum Laude, from Wake Forest University. Manning has a JD, Magna Cum Laude, from the Northwestern School of Law, and an MM, With Distinction, from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Manning was a 1998 Henry Luce Scholar and spent that year helping the Development Bank of Singapore acquire and recapitalize banks in Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis.
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  Reid Campbell

  Director; Member, Audit Committee, Investment Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee

  Reid Campbell is a member of the Board of Directors of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (WTM), a publicly-traded, Bermuda-domiciled holding company for insurance and financial services interests around the world. Reid retired as President of WTM in 2024 after 30 years with the company.  Prior to his role as President, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of WTM, President of White Mountains Advisors, the company’s in-house asset management operation, and a Managing Director of White Mountains Capital, where he oversaw the company’s capital management and treasury functions. Prior to joining WTM in 1994, Reid spent three years with KPMG in its Stamford, Connecticut audit practice. He is a registered Certified Public Accountant in the state of Connecticut and a member of the Connecticut Society of CPAs and the AICPA. Reid has a BS in Business Administration and Accounting from Washington & Lee University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
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  Natalie Cohen

  Director; Chair, Audit Committee, and Member, Risk Committee

  Natalie Cohen is president and founder of National Municipal Research, Inc., a consulting and research company focused on U.S. state and local government finance. She recently served as Head of Municipal Research at Wells Fargo Securities, and previously worked at New York City OMB, a rating agency, the first monoline reinsurance company, and several primary bond insurers. She was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement” award by Smith’s Research and Gradings and named a “Trailblazing Woman in Public Finance” by The Bond Buyer. She has been a member of the Government Accounting Standards Advisory Council, a Board member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, a member of the Government Finance Officers Association standing budget committee and is on the National League of Cities Public Sector Retirement Advisory Committee. Ms. Cohen holds an MPA from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service and a BA from Hampshire College.
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  Suzanne Finnegan

  Director and Chief Credit Officer; Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee and Member, Risk Committee

  Suzanne Finnegan has responsibility for underwriting approval of all transactions for insurance. Prior to joining BAM, she was Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., where she was the Senior Credit Officer overseeing credit transactions in the Government Banking segment. From 1990 to 2004, she was the Chief Municipal Underwriting Officer at FSA, responsible for domestic municipal finance underwriting, and was Chair of the Municipal Underwriting Committee. Prior to joining FSA, she was Vice President and Manager of the General Surveillance Department at MBIA and earlier supervised MBIA’s Special Tax and Leasing Group. She previously worked in the Public Finance Division of Marine Midland Bank and in the Municipal Research Group at Oppenheimer & Co. Suzanne is a past Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance. She is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, the Southern Municipal Analysts Society, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Fordham University.
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  John White

  Director; Chair, Human Resources Committee; Member, Audit Committee, Investment Committee, and Nominating and Governance Committee

  John White serves as a Managing Director, Chairman, and a member of the Board of Directors for the PFM Group, which is a leading provider of independent financial advisory services and asset management to public sector and not-for-profit clients across the US. He previously served PFM as its Chief Executive Officer for more than 30 years, until the conclusion of 2011. Prior to joining PFM in 1980, Mr. White held policy-making positions in various aspects of local, state and federal governments, including serving as director of the transition staff when Congressman William Green was elected Mayor of Philadelphia, and later as a transition advisor to Edward G. Rendell when he was elected Mayor of Philadelphia in 1991 and Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002. Mr. White was educated at The William Penn Charter School, where he currently serves as Treasurer of the Board of Overseers. He is a graduate of Muhlenberg College. In the past he has been a member of the Boards of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts as well as Chair of the Philadelphia Zoning Board.

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  Martin Arrick

  Head of Health Care

  Mr. Arrick joined BAM as Head of Health Care in 2022, and leads the company’s initiatives to expand coverage and analytical capacity for insuring nonprofit hospital systems in the U.S., primarily to serve investors in the secondary market. Prior to joining BAM, he spent three decades as a credit analyst at S&P Global Ratings, leading the national nonprofit healthcare practice. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University and holds degrees from Columbia Business School and the Columbia University School of Public Health.
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  Grant Dewey

  Head of Municipal Capital Markets

  Grant Dewey is Head of Municipal Capital Markets, responsible for expanding utilization of BAM’s guaranty by institutional market participants, including major investors and underwriting and trading desks. He joined BAM in March 2018 after 33 years as a Managing Director in Citi’s Municipal Bond Division, serving a wide range of institutional investors including Bank Portfolios, Mutual Funds, Credit Hedge Funds, and Investment Advisors. Dewey began his career at Smith Barney as an Analyst in the Bank Advisory Group before moving to Institutional Sales, where he contributed to Citi’s top ranking in Municipal Markets every year since 2012. He holds a BA in economics from Middlebury College.

  212-235-2502 gdewey@buildamerica.com
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  Don Farrell

  Head of Investor Relations

  Don Farrell is  BAM’s Head of Investor Relations. He joined BAM in 2012 as Head of East Region Public Finance. Prior to joining BAM, he was Managing Director in Public Finance for Assured Guaranty, and before that worked at Ambac for 17 years, where he was involved in all aspects of municipal transaction underwriting, including pricing and client relationship management. He holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Pace University.

  212-235-2520 dfarrell@buildamerica.com
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  Suzanne Finnegan

  Director and Chief Credit Officer; Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee and Member, Risk Committee

  Suzanne Finnegan has responsibility for underwriting approval of all transactions for insurance. Prior to joining BAM, she was Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., where she was the Senior Credit Officer overseeing credit transactions in the Government Banking segment. From 1990 to 2004, she was the Chief Municipal Underwriting Officer at FSA, responsible for domestic municipal finance underwriting, and was Chair of the Municipal Underwriting Committee. Prior to joining FSA, she was Vice President and Manager of the General Surveillance Department at MBIA and earlier supervised MBIA’s Special Tax and Leasing Group. She previously worked in the Public Finance Division of Marine Midland Bank and in the Municipal Research Group at Oppenheimer & Co. Suzanne is a past Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Association for Governmental Leasing and Finance. She is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, the Southern Municipal Analysts Society, and the Municipal Analysts Group of New York. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Fordham University.
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  Jeffrey Fried

  General Counsel

  As General Counsel, Jeffrey Fried oversees legal and regulatory affairs and related corporate projects. He joined BAM from the Edwards Wildman Palmer Law Firm, where he was a Partner and the Senior Legal Risk Manager for the firm’s Public Finance Practice. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Partner at Greenberg Traurig, where he helped to establish a national public infrastructure practice focused on municipal finance, public-private partnerships and regional public finance underwritings. Before that, he served as a Senior Managing Director and Group Head in Public Finance at FGIC and earlier was General Counsel, Public Finance and General Counsel, AFSLP at AMBAC. He has a B.S. from State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from the Fordham School of Law.
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  Patrice James

  Head of Diversity and Inclusion; Head of Public Finance Operations

  Patrice James is BAM’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion, and Head of Public Finance Operations. She joined BAM in 2013 and was previously Vice President, Business Operations at Financial Guaranty Insurance Co., where she managed the public and structured finance operations team, and a senior analyst at Genworth Financial. She is a former member of the General Electric Co. Women’s Network, where she served as chair and co-chair of various philanthropic community initiatives for women, and a former member of Parents of Children of Color at the Dalton School in New York City.
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  Elizabeth (Beth) Keys

  Chief Financial Officer

  Beth Keys manages financial planning, reporting, accounting, and tax and treasury operations. Prior to joining BAM, she was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Guy Carpenter and, before that, Senior Vice President and CFO of Syncora Holdings Ltd. At Syncora, she also served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Syncora Guarantee from 2005 to 2006, where she led the Finance function and was responsible for internal and external financial reporting and leading the annual budget and business planning process. Her earlier work experience includes financial positions with General Motors, the last of which was Controller of GMAC Commercial Finance. She has a B.S. in accounting from Boston College’s Wallace E. Carroll School of Management and a M.B.A. from M.I.T.’s Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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  Laura Levenstein

  Chief Risk Officer

  As Head of Risk Management, Laura Levenstein has responsibility for BAM’s risk management strategy and its oversight, including acting as chair of the Enterprise Risk Committee. Laura also serves on the Management, Underwriting and Credit Policy and Surveillance Committees. Before joining BAM, she was Senior Managing Director for Global Public, Project and Infrastructure Finance, which includes US public finance, global sub-sovereign, sovereign, project and infrastructure finance, at Moody’s Investors Service. In that position, as part of the evaluation of the various rated entities, she was responsible for evaluating all types of risk in these sectors to the extent it could impact the entities’ credit profiles. Laura was also responsible for managing all aspects of the rating business relevant to those sectors including, rating assignment, rating methodologies, process operations, strategy, financial performance, rating quality and reputational risks. Prior positions in her over 20-year career at Moody’s included Senior Managing Director for Americas and Global Financial Institutions. Laura holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University.
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  Alex Makowski

  Senior Advisor

  Alex Makowski joined BAM in 2012 as its first General Counsel, and oversaw legal and regulatory affairs and related corporate projects. Prior to joining BAM, he was a Managing Director at Financial Security Assurance (FSA) and later worked for Assured Guaranty, which acquired FSA in July 2009. At FSA and Assured, he played a major role in the workout of troubled municipal, international and asset-backed credits. Prior to joining FSA in 1995, he spent five years at The First Boston Corporation, where he was a Director focusing on corporate real estate. He began his legal career as an Associate in Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s corporate law department. Alex has a B. Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Harvard University, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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  David W. McIntyre, Ph.D.

  Chief Technology Officer

  David McIntyre leads systems development and internet technology functions at BAM. Prior to joining the company, he served as Managing Director and Global Head of Development Standards and Control at BlackRock from 2007 through 2011 and, previously, from 1997 through 2003. Before returning to BlackRock, he served as Chief Technology Officer of Data Oxygen, a subsidiary of Orbis Financial. Prior to that, he was a Director at Credit Suisse and Iris Financial Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.A. in Computer Science/Physics from Drew University.
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  Michael J. Moriarty

  Head of Regulatory Oversight and Compliance

  Michael Moriarty is responsible for BAM’s regulatory oversight and compliance. Prior to joining BAM, he was a Managing Director at the Promontory Financial Group, where he assisted clients in insurance and reinsurance matters from both a regulatory and financial perspective. Before that he was the Deputy Superintendent of Property and Capital Markets for the New York State Insurance Department, which he served for more than 30 years in a number of senior positions. Additionally, he is certified as an Associate in Reinsurance and an Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance by the Insurance Institute of America and as an Insurance Examiner by the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society. He holds a B.S. degree from Queens College, CUNY, where he majored in Accounting.
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  Scott C. Richbourg

  Senior Advisor, Public Finance

  Scott Richbourg is Senior Advisor to BAM’s Public Finance Department, after serving as Head of Public Finance from BAM’s launch in 2012. Prior to joining BAM, he was Executive Director and Manager of the Southern Group for Public Finance at Morgan Stanley with responsibility for all municipal underwriting activity in the region. Before that, he was Managing Director of the U.S. Municipal Finance Department at FSA, which he joined in 2001. In the position, he was the head of strategic planning, business development and underwriting across all financial guaranty sectors of the municipal market, including both primary and secondary issues. Earlier, he was Vice President and Co-Head of the Infrastructure Group at Goldman Sachs and an investment banker at PaineWebber and Morgan Stanley. He holds a B.A. in Economics from James Madison University.
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  Michael Stanton

  Head of Strategy and Communications

  Mike Stanton is in charge of developing strategy and directing communications. He joined BAM from SourceMedia, where he was Senior Vice President for Capital Markets, managing a group of four major publications, including The Bond Buyer, the company’s flagship municipal finance daily newspaper and website. He joined The Bond Buyer as a reporter in 1995 and served in multiple positions with the newspaper and its parent, including Editor-in-Chief and Publisher. He is a graduate of Columbia University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

  212-235-2575 mstanton@buildamerica.com
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  Juliet Stiehl

  Head of Public Finance, East Region

  Juliet Stiehl manages the Eastern Region for BAM’s public finance group and is based in BAM’s New York City headquarters. Juliet joined BAM at its inception in 2012 and previously served roles as a senior underwriter on the East Region team as well as Head of Recruitment and BAM’s Rotating Analyst Program. Prior to BAM, Juliet worked at Assured Guaranty in the Public Finance Group and started her career in public finance in FSA’s Rotating Analyst Program. She serves on the board of Northeast Women in Public Finance and is a member of various industry organizations including, Women in Public Finance, Ladies First, MAGNY, and the NFMA. She was in the Bond Buyer’s inaugural class of Rising Stars and honored as a Trailblazing Women in Public Finance by the NEWPF and The Bond Buyer in 2019. She holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard University.

  212-235-2521 jstiehl@buildamerica.com
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  Todd E. Tomich

  Head of Public Finance, West Region

  Todd Tomich manages the 18-state Western Region for BAM’s public finance group and is based in the Santa Monica office. He joined BAM from Assured Guaranty, where he was a Vice President in the International Infrastructure and Public Finance Group, underwriting transactions that included P3s, utilities, airports and toll roads. Prior to that he held similar positions with FSA, which he joined in 2004 as an Associate. Before joining FSA, Todd served as an aide to US Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey and held credit analyst positions with The Alison Company in Newport Beach, California and Merrill Lynch’s private client group in New Haven, Connecticut. Todd graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics.

  213-291-8001 ttomich@buildamerica.com
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  Michael Weinstein

  Head of Surveillance

  Michael Weinstein manages municipal surveillance, including systems design and data acquisition to facilitate the credit and surveillance functions. He joined BAM at its inception in July 2012 as a Vice President in Municipal Surveillance. Before joining BAM, he was an equity analyst at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Previously to that, he was an Assistant Vice President at Financial Security Assurance (FSA) and later Assured Guaranty (which acquired FSA in July 2009). Michael holds an B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. with Distinction from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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  Raquel Wilson

  Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs

  Raquel Wilson supports BAM’s Legal team, with a particular focus on relationships with state-level regulators nationwide. She joined BAM in 2016 and was previously a Legal and Regulatory Affairs specialist at UMA Education. She holds a B.S. in Business Management and Finance from CUNY Brooklyn College.

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  Juliet Stiehl

  Head of Public Finance, East Region

  Juliet Stiehl manages the Eastern Region for BAM’s public finance group and is based in BAM’s New York City headquarters. Juliet joined BAM at its inception in 2012 and previously served roles as a senior underwriter on the East Region team as well as Head of Recruitment and BAM’s Rotating Analyst Program. Prior to BAM, Juliet worked at Assured Guaranty in the Public Finance Group and started her career in public finance in FSA’s Rotating Analyst Program. She serves on the board of Northeast Women in Public Finance and is a member of various industry organizations including, Women in Public Finance, Ladies First, MAGNY, and the NFMA. She was in the Bond Buyer’s inaugural class of Rising Stars and honored as a Trailblazing Women in Public Finance by the NEWPF and The Bond Buyer in 2019. She holds a B.A. in Government from Harvard University.

  212-235-2521 jstiehl@buildamerica.com
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  Greg Pacifico

  Head of Public Finance, Texas Region

  Greg Pacifico is a senior underwriter in BAM’s Eastern Regional Group and Head of Texas, based in Austin. He joined BAM in 2012 from Assured Guaranty, where he was an analyst in the Public Finance Group. He is a graduate of New York University with a B.A. in Economics.

  512-202-1417 gpacifico@buildamerica.com
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  Todd E. Tomich

  Head of Public Finance, West Region

  Todd Tomich manages the 18-state Western Region for BAM’s public finance group and is based in the Santa Monica office. He joined BAM from Assured Guaranty, where he was a Vice President in the International Infrastructure and Public Finance Group, underwriting transactions that included P3s, utilities, airports and toll roads. Prior to that he held similar positions with FSA, which he joined in 2004 as an Associate. Before joining FSA, Todd served as an aide to US Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey and held credit analyst positions with The Alison Company in Newport Beach, California and Merrill Lynch’s private client group in New Haven, Connecticut. Todd graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Economics.

  213-291-8001 ttomich@buildamerica.com
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  Bryan Baebler

  Managing Vice President, Head of Primary and Secondary Markets

  Bryan Baebler is responsible for BAM’s capital markets pricing desk and primary and secondary markets business. He joined BAM in April 2013 from Barclays, where he was a Vice President on the Municipal Primary Syndicate Desk for three years. Prior to that, he was a Short-Term Municipal Securities Trader at Barclays/Lehman Brothers and before that a Municipal Securities Trader in the Fixed Income Group at Vanguard Group. Bryan earned his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

  212-235-2563 bbaebler@buildamerica.com
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  Mark Capell

  Managing Vice President, Public Finance, West Region

  Mark Capell is a senior underwriter at BAM, covering the Western Region. Prior to joining BAM, he was a Director of Assured Guaranty, Western States, and, prior to that, he held a similar position at FSA. Earlier, he was a Director at Fitch Ratings from 1998 through 2004. He holds a B.A. from U.C. Davis and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

  415-858-1007 mcapell@buildamerica.com
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  Gia Calabrese

  Vice President, Public Finance

  Gia Calabrese is a Vice President in BAM’s Public Finance Group, covering not-for-profit health care credits nationwide. She joined BAM in 2015 and is based in San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.

  415-878-1548 gcalabrese@buildamerica.com
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  Morgan Fahy

  Vice President, Capital Markets

  Morgan Fahy is a member of BAM’s Capital Markets team and works with institutional investors and municipal bond traders to identify and execute insurance transactions, particularly in the secondary market. Ms. Fahy joined BAM from Citi, where she was Vice President in the Institutional Municipal Sales Group. She has previous experience in corporate investment-grade credit and began her career as a financial analyst at PepsiCo. She is a graduate of Fordham University with a degree in Finance

  212-235-2545 mfahy@buildamerica.com
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  Christopher Flosi

  Managing Vice President, Capital Markets

  Christopher Flosi is a member of BAM’s Capital Markets team and works with institutional investors, underwriters, and traders to identify and execute insured transactions in the primary and secondary markets. He joined BAM as a credit analyst in 2012 and previously worked at Bank of America Global Capital Management and State Street Global Advisors. He is a graduate of Iona University and earned an MBA from the Suffolk University – Sawyer School of Business

  212-235-2548 cflosi@buildamerica.com
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  Jill Greiss

  Senior Counsel

  Jill is a senior member of BAM’s legal team. She joined BAM from FGIC, where she was Director and Senior Counsel. Prior to joining FGIC in 2004, she served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at AMBAC and, prior to that was a Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she was a counsel to sponsors and advisors of unit investment trusts and mutual funds and a bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel in municipal transactions. Earlier she was an attorney at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and an Assistant Counsel at The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. She got her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.
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  Eashaa Parekh

  Associate Counsel

  Eashaa Parekh is a member of BAM’s Public Finance Legal team, reviewing and analyzing transactions both as part of the underwriting and closing process. Prior to BAM, she was an associate in the Capital Markets group at Cooley LLP and O’Melveny and Myers LLP. Eashaa earned a B.A. from Syracuse University and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.
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  Alexis Platis

  Managing Vice President, Public Finance, East Region

  Alexis Platis is a senior underwriter in BAM’s Eastern Regional Group. She joined BAM in 2012 from Assured Guaranty, where she was an assistant vice president in public finance, and began her career in the municipal bond insurance industry at CIFG. She is a graduate of Vassar College and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from New York University.

  212-235-2524 aplatis@buildamerica.com
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  Les Richmond

  Vice President and Actuary

  Les Richmond’s role in our credit underwriting group is to evaluate the pension plans and liabilities of the municipal entities BAM guarantees. Prior to joining BAM, he was with Hay Group, where he was a Senior Principal and recently the Project Leader of a four-year engagement to audit the five New York City Retirement Systems. He also conducted special pension studies for the New York City Office of the Comptroller. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President of Aon Consulting, which he joined in 1986, with responsibility for providing actuarial consulting on post-retirement health and life insurance benefits and pensions. He is an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, an Enrolled Actuary, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, and a member of the American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Rutgers College.
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  Kevin Roberts, CFA

  Vice President, Public Finance, East Region

  Kevin Roberts is a Vice President and senior underwriter in BAM’s Eastern Regional Group with a regional focus in the Northeast and Midwest as well as a sector focus on Airports. He joined BAM in 2017 from Wells Fargo Bank N.A., where he was a credit analyst in the Government Banking division. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and is a CFA^® charterholder.

  212.235.2573 kroberts@buildamerica.com
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  Andrea Rodriguez

  Associate Counsel

  Andrea Rodriguez is a member of BAM’s Public Finance Legal team, reviewing and analyzing transactions both as part of the underwriting and closing process. Prior to BAM, she was an associate in the Capital Markets group at White & Case LLP. Andrea has a B.S. from St. John’s University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
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  Jill Schmidt

  Vice President, Public Finance, East Region

  Jill Schmidt is a senior underwriter in BAM’s Eastern Regional Group. She joins BAM from Assured Guaranty, where she was a Vice President in Public Finance. Prior to joining Assured Guaranty in June of 2010, she was a Director in the Global Power Group at Fitch Ratings. Before that, she spent five years at FGIC, where she was a Vice President, Surveillance and prior to that, she was a research analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. She is a graduate of Clarkson University and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Baruch College. She is a member of the Municipal Analysts Group of New York, the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and Women in Public Finance.

  212-235-2525 jschmidt@buildamerica.com
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  Shelby San Vicente

  Vice President, Public Finance, West Region

  Shelby San Vicente is a senior underwriter at BAM, covering the Western region. Prior to joining BAM, Shelby was an Analyst in the U.S. Public Finance Group at Moody’s Investors Service. Prior to Moody’s, Shelby held several private wealth management positions at UBS and Fisher Investments. She has a B.S. in Business Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

  213-297-8002 ssanvicente@buildamerica.com
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  Brian Siper

  Deputy General Counsel

  Brian Siper joined BAM from Assured Guaranty, where he held a series of positions, including Counsel in the Public Finance area. Prior to that, Brian was Senior Counsel and Director of Public Finance and Project Finance North America at Financial Guaranty Insurance Company, and before that an Associate at King & Spalding LLP. He earned a B.A. from Binghamton University and a J.D. from the Albany Law School of Union University.
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  Scott Sollers

  Senior Advisor, Public Finance

  Scott Sollers is based in the San Francisco office. A veteran municipal bond investment banker, he was previously a managing director at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. He was Chairman of Stone & Youngberg, the largest California-based underwriter of municipal bonds, prior to that firm’s acquisition by Stifel in 2011. He is also a former Chairman of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board.

  415-858-1001 ssollers@buildamerica.com
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  Howard Spumberg

  Managing Vice President, Public Finance, East Region

  Howard Spumberg is a senior underwriter in BAM’s Eastern Regional Group. He comes to BAM from Assured Guaranty, where he was a Director in the Public Finance Group, and, prior to that, held the same position at FSA. Prior to joining FSA in 1998, he was Associate Director of Public Finance Ratings for S&P, where he recommended ratings for a wide variety of tax-backed and revenue supported debt obligations. Earlier, he was a Municipal Bond Evaluator and Research Analyst at J.J. Kenny Co., Inc. He has a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University and an MBA in Finance from Fordham University.

  212-235-2522 hspumberg@buildamerica.com
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  Alexander Vaisman

  Managing Vice President; Head of Higher Education

  Alexander Vaisman is a senior underwriter in the Public Finance Underwriting Group and covers the Western Region in addition to managing underwriting for public higher education credits nationwide.  Prior to joining BAM, he was an Associate Director in the U.S. Public Finance Group at Fitch Ratings. Alexander is a graduate of Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College and earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

  415-858-1004 avaisman@buildamerica.com