Christopher Karwick is Chief Operating Officer at Silicon Valley Power, where he oversees the utility’s operations, infrastructure, and strategic initiatives supporting the City of Santa Clara’s electric system.

Chris joined Silicon Valley Power in 2017 and has held several leadership roles, including Division Manager of Generation and Assistant Director positions in both Utility Operations and Customer Development and Project Management. Throughout his tenure, he has managed a diverse portfolio of energy assets and led major infrastructure and customer-focused initiatives.

With over 25 years of experience in the energy industry, Chris has led critical utility functions including grid operations, power generation, substations, transmission and distribution, and engineering. Prior to joining SVP, he held leadership roles at Calpine Corporation, one of the nation’s largest power producers. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering from the California Maritime Academy.

In his current role, Chris focuses on maintaining reliable operations, advancing infrastructure to support evolving energy demands, and driving efficient, forward-looking utility performance.

Adam Christian is a Managing Director in Baker Tilly’s Municipal Advisory practice with 18 years of experience advising state and local governments on the funding, financing, procurement, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects. His experience spans public transportation, airports, ports, higher education, broadband, civic infrastructure, and transit-oriented development.

Adam advises clients throughout a project’s lifecycle, from initial business case development, financial feasibility analysis, and funding strategy to procurement, transaction structuring, and negotiations with private-sector partners. He has particular expertise in public-private partnerships (P3s), federal infrastructure funding programs, real estate value creation, and innovative financing strategies.

Over the course of his career, Adam has helped public agencies secure more than $2.5 billion in discretionary grant funding and has advised on some of the Western United States’ most significant transportation and public infrastructure initiatives. He focuses on helping agencies advance complex capital programs, leverage diverse funding sources, and deliver transformative projects that support long-term economic growth and community mobility.

Anzel Galvan supports the work that helps communities thrive: public infrastructure and affordable housing. We provide thoughtful, dependable bond counsel and disclosure counsel services, combining legal rigor with practical judgment and a collaborative, team-oriented approach. Our senior attorneys stay engaged throughout each transaction, identifying issues early and providing clear, practical guidance. Since our founding in 2024, we have served as bond counsel on $2.75 billion and disclosure counsel on $3.00 billion of municipal obligations.

If you are interested in attending or have any questions, please contact Taylar Hart at taylar.i.hart@jpmorgan.com.

Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc. (“Ramirez”) is a nationwide, full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm serving the needs of thousands of individual investors, business owners and top institutional investors, corporations and government agencies in the U.S. Since 1971, our mission has been to help clients succeed by executing with integrity, experience, teamwork and performance.

At Ramirez, we know that our clients’ success is essential to our own. We’re growing at a robust pace because we are a different kind of firm. We pride ourselves on working together to break new ground and do what is best for our clients. As a result, we stand apart from our peers and deliver exceptional performance in all of our core areas of business through various market conditions.

Nathaniel “Nat” Singer is a senior director with PFM Financial Advisors LLC and PFM Swap Advisors LLC, advising on both taxable and tax-exempt bond and derivative transactions. 


A former Chair of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board and member of SIFMA’s new product committee, Mr. Singer brings nearly four decades of experience to PFM. Throughout his career, Mr. Singer has been lead on some of the largest and most complex bond and swap transactions across a number of sectors and geographies.


Mr. Singer is one of the most respected voices in the municipal industry and is frequently sought out as an expert. After spending 21 years at Bear Stearns trading and underwriting municipal bonds as well as running their derivative department, he joined Swap Financial Group as a partner and Senior Managing Director in 2008. In these roles, he was responsible for the development of state-of-the-art financial products to help municipal issuers lower debt service costs and hedge interest rate risk.


Mr. Singer is a frequent speaker on topics relating to both the municipal cash market as well as the derivatives market and has authored numerous papers focusing on financing and trading opportunities in the municipal market. He received a B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Princeton University, an international business certificate from the University of Copenhagen and attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

David Leifer, Senior Managing Director of KNN Public Finance, has over 29 years of experience as a Financial Advisor and 5 years of experience as an attorney. Mr. Leifer has worked continuously at KNN since 2001 and has served in the role of Senior Managing Director since 2009. Mr. Leifer’s practice specialties include general government, health care, higher educations, pensions, transportation, and utilities. He serves as lead advisor to numerous counties, cities, special districts, and State agencies, primarily in California. He is the lead advisor to the California State Treasurer’s office for the issuance of Lease Revenue Bonds by the State of California Public Works Board and to the State’s Conduit Issuance Authorities, the California Health Facilities Finance Authority (CHFFA), and the California Educational Facilities Authority (CEFA). Mr. Leifer has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Nick Peters is Senior Director of Municipal Bonds at Intercontinental Exchange, where he leads product strategy for ICE’s municipal data and analytics franchise, including Continuous Evaluated Pricing (CEP), the ICE AAA Municipal Yield Curve, the broader municipal yield curve suite, Fair Value Information Service, Size-Adjusted Pricing, and Enhanced Transparency. He owns the muni product roadmap end-to-end — from quantitative modeling and technical design through commercial strategy — and manages a team of product managers building the next generation of evaluated pricing and market-transparency tools for the municipal market.
Most recently, Nick has been a driving force behind ICE’s rollout of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, one of the first production MCP integrations in institutional fixed income. The MCP server brings ICE’s evaluated pricing, benchmark curves, Enhanced Transparency, and Independent Price Verification narratives directly into leading AI assistants, letting portfolio managers, traders, and pricing teams query ICE content in natural language from inside their existing workflows. Nick has helped shape the muni content roadmap for the connector and the client engagement strategy for bringing it to market.

Nick brings more than 15 years of fixed income experience across evaluated pricing, trading analytics, and structured credit. Prior to leading the muni franchise, he was Director of Trading Analytics at ICE, where he built the firm’s BestEx and transaction cost analysis (TCA) platform spanning corporates, munis, sovereigns, and MBS — one of the first cross-asset TCA tools designed for ETF, algorithmic, and auto-execution desks. Earlier, as Manager of MBS Pricing, he helped launch the industry’s first continuous fixed income pool pricing model, covering more than one million securities.

Before joining ICE, Nick held various roles at UBS Investment Bank and Fannie Mae. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Drexel University and is a CFA charterholder.

Greg Dawley is a Managing Director in the Los Angeles office of RBC Capital Markets. 

Mr. Dawley has served over 33 years in the municipal finance and governmental industries.  He focuses on a wide range of issuers throughout the Western Region, including those in the general government, utilities, public power, transportation, higher education and K-14 sectors.  In addition, he works with a number of national public power issuers.

Before his career in public finance, Mr. Dawley served as Assistant Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. 

He is active in his community, having recently served on the Advisory Board for the California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program and the Advisory Board for the Taubman Center at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government.

Mr. Dawley graduated with an M.P.P. from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Rob Hillman is a Managing Director at Siebert Williams Shank and a member of its Quantitative Solutions Group in the Firm’s 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 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.