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.

David Moffett, Managing Director, joined Oppenheimer in 2024 to lead the Firm’s banking efforts in the Southeast. Mr. Moffett is a seasoned public finance, utility and project finance banker with over 20 years of experience in Public Finance banking and deep relationships throughout the Southeast Region and Public Utility sector. Mr. Moffett has expertise in traditional general municipal finance, public utility clients and project finance. Before joining Oppenheimer, Mr. Moffett was an Executive Director in the Southeast, Public Utility and Project Finance Practices at UBS. Recent key transactions include Clay County (FL), Seminole County (FL), Lee County (FL), City of Tamarac (FL), the Louisiana Superdome Renovation Financing, the Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County Financings, and the State of Louisiana Highway Financing. He previously held positions at Jefferies, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and A.G. Edwards. Mr. Moffett holds his MBA with an emphasis on Quantitative Business Solutions from Louisiana State University and a B.S. in Statistical Mathematics from Tulane University. Mr. Moffett is also a CFA charter holder, CFA Institute.

Kevin joined PFM in 2013 and is currently a director. At PFM, Kevin has assisted airport clients in developing funding plans for capital development programs and served as financial advisor on various airport financings. He served as financial advisor to airports in Asheville, North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Jacksonville, Florida; Kalispell, Montana; Manchester, New Hampshire; Knoxville, Tennessee; Nashville, Tennessee; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Salt Lake City, Utah, among others

Prior to joining PFM, Kevin worked for eight years at a national aviation consultancy firm as an airport financial and feasibility consultant. At his prior firm, he conducted financial feasibility analyses and participated in the development of reports for the airport consultant in support of more than $4 billion in airport revenue bond financings supported by general airport revenues, passenger facility charges, and rental car customer facility charges.

Asha Mathew is a Director at Assured Guaranty in the Public Finance Revenue Group, focusing on transportation and utility sectors and Texas special districts. Prior to joining Assured Guaranty in 2010, Asha began her career in the municipal bond insurance industry at Radian Asset Assurance where she was a lead analyst reviewing Texas special districts and utility credits. Asha is a graduate of the New York Institute of Technology. She is a member of various industry organizations including Women in Public Finance, Municipal Analysts Group of New York and the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

Ms. Martin, now retired, served as a Senior Strategy Consultant at Lincoln Financial Group, where she worked for over 14 years. She is an experienced professional in analytic business intelligence and marketing, with a background in developing information-based business intelligence solutions for leading global organizations, particularly in the financial services sector. Prior to her most recent role, Ms. Martin served as a senior managing director in the customer management and business intelligence practice at IBM, a senior director in customer management at Teradata, and a principal consultant in the customer management strategy practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, among other relevant prior experience. Ms. Martin earned a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University.

Melissa López Rogers focuses her practice in the area of public finance, with an emphasis on disclosure and municipal securities issues, economic development, and public-private partnerships. She has served 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, airports, higher education, community development districts, tax allocation districts, and water, sewer, and electric utilities. Prior to her practice as a lawyer, Melissa acquired 10 years of experience in public finance as a paralegal, administrative manager, and law clerk.