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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.