Kathleen Sharman is the Chief Financial Officer for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, operator of Orlando International Airport, the busiest airport in the state of Florida, and Orlando Executive Airport. Orlando International Airport served nearly 49 million passengers in fiscal year 2022, making it one of the busiest airports in the United States. As Chief Financial Officer, she is responsible for managing the over $680 million dollar annual operating budget and a $4.3 billion capital program. She has more than 30 years of accounting and finance experience across multiple transportation modes, as well as solid waste and real estate industries in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining the Aviation Authority, Ms. Sharman served as the CFO and Treasurer of the New Jersey Transit Corporation, one of the nation’s largest providers of bus, rail, and light rail transit with over 11,000 employees and an operating budget of over $2 billion. Her experience also includes CFO and Treasurer positions at Georgia’s State Road and Tollway Authority and the South Jersey Transportation Authority, operator of the Atlantic City Expressway and the Atlantic City International Airport. Ms. Sharman began her career at Arthur Andersen & Company, one of the country’s “Big 8” accounting firms at the time, and has held corporate Controller positions for several private sector companies in the solid waste and real estate industries. She holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from George Washington University and is a Certified Public Accountant. She was recognized by The Bond Buyer newspaper as one of the 2018 Trailblazing Women in Public Finance and in November 2021 she was named Airport Council International’s Finance Professional of the year (Large Airports) as well as one of Orlando Business Journal’s Women who mean business for 2022. Ms. Sharman also served as Chair of Airports Council International’s finance steering committee for 2022 and is serving on the AAAE Audit Committee and ACI Board Finance Committee of 2023.

Sharon Sepik is the Assistant Treasurer for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, where she oversees Treasury operations including Cash Operations, PCI Compliance, Merchant Services, Debt and Investment Management, and administration of the $4.4 billion Pension Plan and 457 Plan. With more than 20 years of experience in treasury and finance, Sharon manages a $2 billion investment portfolio and oversees $2 billion in debt-related funds, supporting major initiatives such as stadium construction. She plays a key role in bond issuance strategy, debt compliance, and investment reporting to Metro’s Investment Committee. She also leads the Government’s Fuel Hedge and Credit Card Programs and has implemented treasury management systems like Kyriba and Clearwater to drive efficiency and transparency. Before joining Metro in 2022, Sharon was Director of Treasury at the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, managing an $800 million portfolio and leading debt compliance and financial strategy. Her earlier roles include treasury leadership at Delek US Holdings, Castle Group, KHS America, and Tupperware Brands, where she gained deep expertise in FX management, intercompany lending, and global cash operations. Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Auburn University and a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Phoenix. She is a Certified Cash Manager (CCM/CTP) and a Certified Municipal Finance Officer (CMFO) in the State of Tennessee.

Chris Ransom has served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Alabama Port Authority since October 2023. A seasoned financial executive with over 25 years of experience in corporate finance in the healthcare, education, transportation, and energy sectors, Chris is focused on ensuring the organization’s fiscal health and driving financial strategies to support APA’s long-term growth objectives. Chris plays a pivotal role in overseeing all financial operations for the Authority, including accounting, financial planning & analysis, treasury management, procurement, and risk management. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Birmingham-Southern College. A native of Eufaula, AL, he and his wife Beth now reside in Mobile.

Daniel Prentice serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the Charleston County School District, which is the second-largest public school system in South Carolina with over 6,500 employees and an annual budget of approximately $1 Billion. Mr. Prentice manages several departments throughout the District including Budget, Accounting, Capital Projects Accounting, Business Intelligence, Contracts & Procurement, Internal Consulting, Federal Programs, and Payroll. Additionally, he serves as the liaison to the Audit & Finance Committee and is a member of the Superintendent’s Cabinet. Prior to joining the School District in March 2024, Mr. Prentice held the role of Deputy County Administrator and Chief Financial Officer with Dorchester County for nearly eight years where he managed numerous finance and operational departments for the twelfth-largest and fifth fastest growing county in South Carolina. He has over ten years of public administration and finance experience. Mr. Prentice received a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting with a Minor in Crime, Law, and Society from the College of Charleston and a Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University Shreveport. In September 2021, he was appointed by Governor Henry McMaster to serve as the liaison for South Carolina counties to the Tourism Expenditure Review Committee which oversees the annual expenditure of taxes from hotels received by cities and counties. Supplemental for The Bond Buyer Conference: In his capacities in Dorchester County and with the Charleston County School District, Mr. Prentice has overseen the issuance of a highly-diverse portfolio of public debt. This includes general obligation debt supported by both ad valorem and sales taxes, utility debt supported by ratepayers, limited obligation bonds in tax increment financing districts, and assessment revenue bonds in special assessment districts created by the unit of local governmen

Leslie M. Norwood is Managing Director and Associate General Counsel of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). She has served SIFMA and its predecessor organizations since 2004. Ms. Norwood is responsible for the legal, regulatory and market practice initiatives of the Association relating to all municipal securities products. Prior to joining SIFMA, Ms. Norwood was an Associate in the Corporate and Securities department at Greenberg Traurig. She also spent 6 years as an Associate in the Public Finance department of Sidley Austin LLP (formerly known as Brown & Wood LLP) where she represented bond issuers, borrowers and underwriters in fixed and variable rate transactions; general obligation, subject to appropriation and revenue bond (public power, education, health care and cultural institutions) transactions; and transactions with credit enhancement. Ms. Norwood received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the New York, New Jersey and California Bars.

Kenneth M. Neighbors focuses his practice primarily in the area of public finance, providing legal advice in support of public-private partnerships, governmental financing and economic development initiatives ranging from transportation and integrated transit projects, tax allocation (TIF) district formation and financing, and other tax-exempt bond financings. In this connection, Ken serves as the co-leader of the firm’s P3, TIF & Infrastructure practice group. Ken has significant experience with mixed-use, commercial, retail and multi-family real estate financings, including with transit-oriented developments. Ken’s work also focuses on the implementation of federal, state and city supported economic development programs and initiatives, including community land trusts and other affordable housing programmatic development. Ken also provides business and legal advice in connection with the acquisition, sale and management of real estate holdings, and provides general representation in connection with corporate matters and corporate and venture capital financing transactions. Prior to his practice as a lawyer, Ken served as a merchant and investment banker, and as a senior officer of an investment firm focusing on private investments in companies ranging from Fortune 100 concerns to multi-unit quick service restaurant groups.

John Murphy is a Director and the Head of PFM’s Investor Relations Advisory Services. He is responsible for the development and implementation of investor relations strategies for PFM’s financial advisory clients. He joined PFM in November 2019 and is also a member of PFM’s Public Power, Distressed Credit, High Yield TIF and Utility Securitization teams. John works in PFM’s Boston office. Prior to joining PFM, John spent the majority of his career as a senior research analyst at Fidelity Investments. John covered several municipal sectors, including electric utilities, water/sewer utilities, environmental services, and gas prepays. He also led Fidelity’s Municipal Distressed Credit Team that engaged in numerous workout situations, most notably, the City of Detroit and PREPA. Prior to his time as a research analyst, John traded municipal, corporate, and Canadian securities at Fidelity and JP Morgan. John is actively involved in the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and is a past president of the Boston Municipal Analysts Forum.

Ms. Mohanty has 30 years in the tax-exempt finance business as both a banker and derivatives marketer. She currently advises on interest rate and commodity derivatives and capital markets products for corporate and municipal and not-for-profit issuers. She has advised on approximately $50 billion of derivatives and structured bond transactions including deal contingent hedges and natural gas prepay transactions. Prior to founding MG in 2008, Ms. Mohanty was a Managing Director and the Head of Derivatives Marketing and Structured Products at UBS. In this role, she managed a group of 20 professionals responsible for issuer and investor derivatives marketing, quantitative bond analysis and lending. Ms. Mohanty oversaw the allocation of a multi-billion dollar lending book, the first at UBS, to provide letters of credit and liquidity facilities to tax-exempt clients. Prior to UBS, Ms. Mohanty was a Managing Director and Head of Issuer Derivatives Marketing at Morgan Stanley where she structured, marketed and executed a variety of derivative transactions including interest rate swaps, swaptions, knockout swaps and inflation-linked structures for major clients. Ms. Mohanty began her career as a housing banker at CS First Boston, and then was an infrastructure and transportation banker in municipal finance at J.P. Morgan. In 1999, Ms. Mohanty joined JPMorgan’s Risk Management Marketing Group where she focused on developing and providing structuring ideas for tax-exempt clients, and marketing interest rate derivatives. Ms. Mohanty has a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago, and holds her Series 50 and Series 54 Certification. She is a former board member of the MSRB, the Eastside Settlement House, and Women in Public Finance and currently serves on the Industry Diversity Advisory Committee of FINRA.