Bo Daniels is Managing Director and Head of Public Finance. He is based in Atlanta and has been the senior banker on over $45 billion of financings during his career and worked on numerous higher education, general obligation, sales tax, transportation, water and sewer, single/multi-family housing, and financial products transactions, as well as complex asset-backed and structured financings. He has extensive experience with sophisticated and complex financial products, hedges and variable rate products. Prior to joining Loop Capital Markets and establishing its Atlanta office, Bo was responsible for running the Atlanta public finance office for PNC, Morgan Stanley’s Atlanta office, and Goldman Sachs’s Chicago office, having begun his career with Goldman Sachs in New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Arunee Monica Cutno joined PNC Capital Markets as a Director in July 2022. She has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, finance, and consulting in the United States and Thailand. Monica is based in Raleigh, NC and primarily focuses on tax-exempt bond financing for charter school facilities. Prior to PNC, Monica worked with the Truist Securities charter school group for 3 years. Before joining Truist, Monica was the co-founder and board chair of Envision Science Academy, a K-8 charter school that has been recognized as a NC Model STEM School of Distinction, STEM School of the Year, and U.S. News Best Elementary School and Best Middle School. In 2016, she led the School’s $11.7 million bond transaction to fund the construction of Envision Science Academy’s 62,500 square-foot facility in Wake Forest, NC. Monica’s commitment to education is reflected in her community involvement, where she currently serves as vice chair of the NC Association for Public Charter Schools and chair emeritus of Envision Science Academy. She is also founding board member of the NC Chapter of Women in Public Finance. Originally from Thailand, she has a multi-national background and is fluent in Thai. Monica holds dual bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from North Carolina State University and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She also holds the SIE, Series 52, 53, and 63 securities licenses.

Damian Brooke joined the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority in March 2011 where he currently oversees the Finance, Procurement, Capital Planning and Information Technology functions for Tampa International Airport as well as the Aviation Authority’s three General Aviation airports. He has more than 35 years of aviation industry experience having worked across a wide spectrum of commercial areas for both domestic and international air carriers and multiple U.S. airports. He has also provided both airline and airport consulting services to many industry clients. In his current role, he is responsible for managing a $470 million revenue and $205 million expense budget, as well as the Authority’s annual capital program which is generally between $100 million and $200 million a year. Damian and his team are also responsible for funding the Authority’s upcoming $6 billion capital program and managing the Authority’s investment portfolio which currently totals just under $1 billion dollars. Prior to coming to Tampa, he served as Assistant Vice President, Market Planning and Analysis for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where he and his team supported the airport’s efforts to attract new air service and provided extensive forecasting, commercial analysis, and budgeting direction throughout the organization. Damian worked for American Airlines for more than 10 years, with experience in network planning, revenue management, international alliances, and regulatory affairs. He spent several years overseas working for Qatar Airways, managing the airline’s network planning, revenue management, pricing, alliance and fleet planning functions. He also worked for eight years at the consulting firm Sabre Airline Solutions, building the company’s International Airport and Government practice from its start and managing more than 100 international clients. Additionally, Damian was part of Sabre’s airline turnaround team, helping restructure air carriers in Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Damian grew up in Manchester, England and holds a bachelor’s degree from Central Connecticut State University. He and his wife, Teri, have three children.

Eddy Bouza is the Program Management Director for the Resilient Florida program. Eddy is an active member of the Florida Floodplain Management Association. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University in Biological Science and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration from FSU. He is certified in floodplain management and supervisory management. Eddy enjoys playing all kinds of games with his wife Emily, and kids – Penny and Tripp; they all love hiking nature trails with their black lab, Timber.

David Bodek is a Managing Director and Sector Leader of S&P Global Ratings’ Public Power and Electric Cooperative practice. David speaks frequently at industry conferences, discusses credit opinions with utilities, their financial intermediaries, and investors, actively monitors the credit ratings of a portfolio of high-profile public power and electric cooperative utilities, provides analytical guidance to colleagues, chairs rating committees, and develops rating methodologies. David also gained extensive experience at S&P Global Ratings performing credit analyses for investor-owned utilities, their unregulated affiliates, and energy sector project-financings. David holds a B.A., cum laude, in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Juris Doctor degree from the Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. Before joining S&P, David practiced law with an emphasis on commercial litigations and utilities’ regulatory proceedings. He holds a license to practice law in state and federal courts in New York.

Peter Bluestone is the associate director of domestic programs at the Public Finance Research Cluster in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. His research includes urban economics, static and dynamic economic impact modeling, and state and local fiscal policy. His work includes modeling state and local impacts of policy changes and economic development using various economic models including IMPLAN and Regional Economics Models Incorporated (REMI). Bluestone has served on the technical advisory committee for the Atlanta Regional Commission. He received his doctorate in economics from Georgia State University.

Ashton M. Bligh focuses her practice in the area of public finance, with a particular emphasis on taxable and tax-exempt financings including serving as disclosure counsel, bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, trustee’s counsel, purchasers’ counsel, lender’s counsel and borrower’s counsel in connection with publicly and privately offered financings in a wide array of sectors, including general government, higher education, community development districts, and tax allocation districts. Prior to her practice at GT, Ashton gained public finance experience assisting: public school systems, cities, counties and water and sewer systems in Georgia; higher education systems throughout the US; and health care systems and affordable housing developments in completing projects related to new construction, equipment acquisition and refinancing.