Leo V. Valdez
Leo Valdez is a Senior Vice President and the manager for the Phoenix office. He has over 20 years experience in municipal finance in Arizona and the southwest, including extensive experience in industrial development authority bonds, sales tax (excise tax) revenue bonds, infrastructure finance, school districts, multi-family housing, single-family housing, hospitals, and special needs revenue bonds. Leo also has experience with rating agency and insurance company presentations. Prior to working in the investment banking industry, Leo worked for the United States Department of Agriculture. He was a specialist loan officer under the Business & Industry Loan Note Guarantee Program in Washington D.C. and later became the Chief for the program in the State of Arizona. He still implements government programs to assist issuers and companies obtain financing in the form of government loan guarantees and grants. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture Business from New Mexico State University and a Master of Science degree in Finance from American University, Washington, D.C. He is a board member of the Arizona Lottery Commission and sits on several charitable board organizations.
Michael Vaughn Michael Vaughn joined HSE in 2006 after 15 years in the public sector. He currently assists school districts, fire districts, cities, towns and tribes with project financing to meet their capital improvement project needs. Michael works closely with school district clients and their political action committees (PAC's) in assisting with the passage of their bond elections. Prior to joining HSE, he primarily worked in the housing industry, focusing especially on environmental issues.
Michael has 10 years of tribal governmental experience. In 2003 Michael was appointed Arizona's first tribal representative for the Arizona Department of Housing (ADOH) in which he lead a state-wide initiative working to improve mortgages on tribal land, assisting with infrastructure financing and increasing tribal access to State funding for housing on tribal land. Arizona was the first state that implemented a tribal set a side of $2.5 million exclusively for tribal housing.
Mr. Vaughn holds Series 63 and Series 7 licenses.
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