Rob Hillman is a Managing Director at Siebert Williams Shank and a member of its Quantitative Solutions Group in the Firm’s newly-opened Boston office. In this role he is responsible for managing both relationships with municipal issuers across sectors and regions as well as the firm’s municipal tender efforts. Prior to joining SWS, he led the Surface Transportation Finance Group at Morgan Stanley before helping to establish its Municipal Capital Markets team in 2023. Across his 25+ years in the municipal finance industry he has senior managed over $50 billion of issuance, including the creation of and inaugural financings for many marquee borrowing programs. Mr. Hillman holds an MS in Mathematics from New York University and a BA cum laude from Brandeis University. In addition to his work with municipal clients, he is a board member of a large non-profit focused on international development.

Ryan is a Vice President on the SMBC Infrastructure Finance team and focuses on the digital, transport and social infrastructure sectors. Ryan is tasked with originating, structuring, and syndicating infrastructure loans and debt products across a wide spectrum of projects including but not limited to data centers, toll roads, managed lanes, and passenger rail. In addition, Ryan has spearheaded bespoke structuring solutions within the microgrid, transportation, industrial and de-carbonization linked infrastructure spaces. Prior to SMBC Ryan earned a BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Finance from the University at Buffalo.

CBG Building Company is one of the nation’s largest residential building contractors. CBG builds over 5,000 housing units per year. With over 30 years of experience, CBG has constructed over 120,000 housing units, over 20,000 student housing beds (including the largest net zero student housing community in North America), and over 30 million SF of LEED projects. CBG’s footprint spans the United States with offices in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and California. CBG is one of the CRC family of companies which also includes a national real estate development firm (CRC Companies) and a national energy services company (CEG Solutions). Tad leads CBGs public-private partnership (P3) efforts including consortium formation, solicitation responses, and management of the CBG team. In addition, given Tad’s previous experience as real estate investment banker and real estate development executive, Tad leads equity & debt sourcing and transaction and financing structuring / negotiations. Tad works closely with CBG’s related companies, CRC Companies and CEG Solutions, to increase the value we provide to our public sector partners. Tad is also a frequent speaker at P3 and higher education conferences.

Michael became the Executive Director and Secretary of the Bond Bank in 2018. He is also the Executive Director of the Vermont Educational and Health Buildings Financing Agency. He is the Bond Bank’s representative to the State of Vermont’s Capital Debt Affordability Advisory Committee. Michael was previously a Director for the National Development Council (NDC)—a national community development finance nonprofit and PNC where he served as a public finance banker focused on governmental, housing, and community facilities transactions. Michael is on the Executive Committee of the City of Burlington’s Planning Commission, board member of the NESGFOA, and an advisor to the GFOA’s Committee on Economic Development and Capital Planning. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Kurt Forsgren is a managing director in S&P Global Ratings group based in Boston. Kurt has over 30 years of experience at S&P, working in U.S. Public Finance, the Project Finance team in Corporate Finance and serving as head of the Boston Office in a market development and investor outreach role. More recently, Kurt was part of S&P Global Rating’s Sustainable Finance team and currently is the Sector Lead for Transportation Infrastructure where he works as a primary analyst, chairs credit committees, generates industry research and serves as spokesperson on transportation, climate risks, and environmental, social, governance topics. Prior to joining S&P Global’s San Francisco office in 1992, Kurt was a transportation consultant at KPMG focusing on airports. Kurt is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and Boston Municipal Analyst Forum. Kurt earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Maine and a Master of Government Administration degree from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a husband and father of three adult boys just graduated or still in college.

William J. Fazioli was appointed as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank in August 2023. Bill has over 35 years of public administration experience in municipal finance, economic development, and infrastructure investment. Most recently, Bill was the Director of Planning & Economic Development for the City of East Providence where he oversaw the city’s largest ever residential, industrial and commercial developments which were shepherded through the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic. His background includes senior financial advisory roles with the nation’s largest public finance firms where he implemented successful municipal debt financings for notable regional clients including Boston, MA, Manchester, NH, New Haven, CT, Burlington, VT and Providence, RI. He previously also served as the Executive Director of the New England States Government Finance Officers Association for over 20 years. Bill continues to serve as Chair of the East Providence Waterfront District Redevelopment Commission that is charged with the revitalization of Brownfield properties into vibrant mixed use development projects. Bill earned an MPA degree in public finance from SUNY-Albany and a BA in public administration & sociology from Rhode Island College.

David Erdman, is a managing director of Baker Tilly Municipal Advisors, LLC, has over 30 years of public finance experience at a major state-level issuer and is an active advocate and leader for municipalities in the municipal bond market. David is a part of the national large issuer team supporting the Midwest.

Mr. Doe founded Municipal Market Analytics (MMA), an independent research firm based in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1995. MMA’s core business is to provide strategic analysis and commentary on historical and quantitative conditions of the US municipal market. MMA also provides its Portfolio Credit Benchmark (PCB), an enterprise risk solution, for bank portfolios and Separate Managed Accounts (SMA), to perform credit reviews of municipal holdings effectively and efficiently. The firm’s proprietary indexes and data sets have proven invaluable to its clients to improve profitability and performance. Throughout his career, Mr. Doe has addressed all the leading groups in the municipal industry. His insight, integrity, and historical context is sought to establish a clear perspective of current conditions impacting investors and issuers in the municipal cash and derivative markets. He has testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the future of municipal regulation and the state of the industry and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide insight into the market’s stability and liquidity. Mr. Doe had the honor of addressing the National Governors Association’s winter meeting regarding the state of public finance. Mr. Doe’s recent attention has been on innovative means to generate new revenue for states and cities addressing such topics as marijuana legalization, gaming, driverless cars, and drones. Currently, he has focused on the impact of climate risk on investor behavior and the ability of issuers to raise capital for essential infrastructure needs such as resilience and adaptation. Mr. Doe’s expertise regarding the intersection of climate and municipals was acknowledged by his appearances before the SEC municipal enforcement group in 2023 and as a panelist at the SEC’s annual compliance conference in 2023 regarding climate disclosure in municipal offering documents. Finally in January 2024, he provided testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on the topic of municipals and climate. Mr. Doe has served as a public member on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), the regulatory entity of the municipal securities industry. In addition, he has been on the advisory boards of: Public Wealth – Detter Co, Stockholm Sweden and, risQ, a climate risk analytics firm for the municipal bond market, Boston MA. He is on the advisory board of the Center for Municipal Finance at the Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago.

Mr. DeMichiel is a 40-year veteran of the municipal bond industry who joined BofA’s municipal finance group from Citigroup in March 2024. During the last 25 years of his tenure at Citigroup he focused on aviation infrastructure finance and headed the Airport Finance Group. Mr. DeMichiel has completed airport revenue bond financings for many airports across the United States including Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport, Salt Lake City International Airport, Hollywood Burbank Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Massachusetts Port Authority, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He has also acted as lead banker for special facility bond issues for United Parcel Service, Korean Airlines, Federal Express, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Lufthansa German Airlines, Air France KLM, American Airlines and United Airlines, Inc. and airport P3 transactions for LaGuardia Gateway Partners, JFK International Airport LLC and JFK New Terminal One. Mr. DeMichiel’s role in financing the redevelopment of New York City’s airports was recently recognized by Politics NY which named him one of its power players in aviation for 2023.