MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

Kevin Puvalowski, Deputy Special Inspector General

Kevin R. Puvalowski, SIGTARP's Deputy Special Inspector General, was a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for more than seven years. In that office, he served in several senior leadership roles, including Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, Chief of the International Narcotics Trafficking Unit, and Regional Coordinator of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. As a prosecutor, Mr. Puvalowski worked on some of the nation's most important money laundering investigations, for which he twice won the Attorney General's John Marshall Award. His first John Marshall Award was for leading the asset forfeiture aspects of the AremisSoft Inc. securities fraud case, which resulted in the repatriation to victims of $200 million. The second John Marshall Award was for leading the asset forfeiture aspects of Operation White Dollar, a narcotics money laundering case that resulted in the indictment and conviction of dozens of Colombian money launderers and a $20 million asset forfeiture recovery.

Mr. Puvalowski clerked for the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York, and is a cum laude graduate of the Fordham University School of Law, where he was an associate editor on the Fordham Law Review.

Cathy Alix, Deputy Chief of Staff

Cathy D. Alix is SIGTARP's Deputy Chief of Staff. Prior to assuming this position, she served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Management. Ms. Alix brings 30+ years of management experience to SIGTARP. Her public service experience has included both federal and state-level positions, including two years of service at the White House as the Special Assistant to the President for management and Administration. Her private sector experience has been concentrated in the communications arena including positions at Icon Solutions Inc., Fleishman-Hillard and Shandwick Public Affairs, as well as several broadcasting companies.

Ms. Alix attended Braxton Business College in Richmond, VA.

Kristine Belisle, Communications Director

Kristine R. Belisle is SIGTARP's Communications Director. She comes to SIGTARP from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) where she served for over three years, most recently as the Director of Public Affairs and prior to that as the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Public Affairs. In these capacities she acted as the official spokesperson and managed media relations and communications on behalf of the agency. Prior to joining SIGIR, Ms. Belisle was the Director of Marketing & Communications for LRG, a woman-owned public affairs firm based out of Alexandria, VA. Ms. Belisle brings over 14 years experience in communications to SIGTARP which also includes managing a national public affairs program on behalf of a fortune 500 company.

Ms. Belisle holds a M.A. in International Affairs from the American University in Washington, D.C., where she was an editor of the Graduate Review, and she holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of San Diego.

Dr. Eileen Ennis, Deputy SIG - Operations

Dr. Eileen Ennis is SIGTARP's Deputy SIG for Operations. She comes to SIGTARP with over 21 years of federal service, most recently with the US Department of Transportation where she was the Associate Administrator for Administration and Chief Information Officer at USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). Known for her skills as a change agent and transition stabilizer, Dr. Ennis was asked to serve temporarily as the acting Director of USDOT's Volpe National Transportation Research Center in Cambridge, MA. After her successful tour at Volpe, Dr. Ennis was invited to provide leadership in the USDOT's departmental Office of the Chief Information Officer and led two organizations which were undergoing leadership challenges and transition as acting Associate CIO for IT Enterprise Projects and acting Associate CIO for IT Policy Oversight. Earlier in her career, Dr. Ennis worked in the USDOT Inspector General's office as a Project Manager for information technology audits. Prior to joining RITA, Dr. Ennis was employed at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2000 to 2007. During her 21 year career, Dr. Ennis has also worked at USDA's National Finance Center, the Indian Health Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Census Bureau.

Dr. Ennis holds a Doctorate Degree in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, a Master's Degree in Information and Resources Management from Webster University, and undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice. Dr. Ennis is also a graduate of two Master's level programs at the National Defense University, the Federal CIO and eGovernment Leadership.

Lori Hayman, Director of Legislative Affairs

Lori J. Hayman is SIGTARP's Director of Legislative Affairs. She comes to SIGTARP from Capitol Hill where she worked for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia. Ms. Hayman has over five years of experience working on Capitol Hill. She has worked both in a member's office and with a committee. She has over ten years working with legislative entities at the local, state and federal levels.

Ms. Hayman holds a law degree from the Howard University School of Law, in Washington, D.C., where she did a semester abroad at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds an undergraduate degree from Salisbury University Communications Arts and Marketing.

Kurt Hyde, Deputy SIG - Audit

Kurt W. Hyde is SIGTARP’s Deputy SIG for Audit. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Hyde began his government career as an Audit Manager for the U.S. General Accounting Office, and later was detailed to the United States House of Representatives Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, where he investigated property and casualty insurance company failures. Later he was Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the Resolution Trust Corporation. From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Hyde worked in the private sector, first as Lead Partner in the Government Services Channel and Customer Solutions for Andersen LLP, and then as a Partner in Worldwide Government Services for Customer Relationship Management Solutions at Unisys Corporation. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Hyde was the Assistant Inspector General for Surface and Maritime Programs for the U.S. Department of Transportation, which was responsible for auditing $50 billion in transportation program spending. In 2007 to 2009, Mr. Hyde was an independent consultant to a Gates Foundation funded not-for-profit, assisting this group in its efforts to elevate education levels urban areas with predominantly minority and low income students.

Mr. Hyde holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech.

Timothy Lee, Senior Policy Advisor

Timothy Lee, SIGTARP’s Senior Policy Advisor, has extensive experience as a capital markets executive. As an investment officer at Allied Capital Corporation (now Ares Capital), he executed thirteen new issue securitizations totaling $5 billion, and oversaw a portfolio of complex structured credit obligations exceeding $400 million. Additionally, he served as the firm's expert advisor on matters related to securitization and derivatives. His experience also includes investment banking roles at Smith Barney (now Citigroup), Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.

Before his finance career he served as an officer in the US Navy. His education includes a BSE in mechanical engineering and an MBA with concentrations in finance and operations management, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

Christy Romero, Chief of Staff

Christy L. Romero, SIGTARP’s Chief of Staff, is a seasoned litigator who comes to SIGTARP from the Securities and Exchange Commission. There, Ms. Romero served as counsel to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and former Chairman Christopher Cox during some of the most challenging market conditions in the agency’s history. Ms. Romero assisted in the development and execution of the SEC’s programs across the entire agency to promote investor protection, healthy markets, and capital formation. She also served as liaison to Commissioners and senior agency staff on rulemaking, policy, operations, and enforcement matters, with particular emphasis on the most complex enforcement cases, including financial fraud, subprime mortgage-backed securities, and auction rate securities. She also served on the SEC’s Subprime Task Force. Ms. Romero joined the SEC staff in 2003 as an attorney in the Division of Enforcement, where she investigated financial fraud, insider trading, abusive short selling by hedge funds, market manipulation, options backdating, and violations of foreign bribery laws. Prior to joining the SEC, Ms. Romero was a counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld in the Financial Restructuring Practice Group.

Ms. Romero clerked for the Honorable Robert C. Jones, United States District Judge, District of Nevada, and is a cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University Law School.

Bryan Saddler, Chief Counsel

Bryan P. Saddler is SIGTARP's Chief Counsel. Prior to joining SIGTARP he served for nearly a decade as the Counsel to the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Prior to serving as Counsel he was Deputy Counsel and staff attorney for the Office of Inspector General of HUD, and also served as both an enforcement attorney and a program attorney for HUD. At HUD, Mr. Saddler led several of the largest mortgage fraud investigations and prosecutions in HUD's history. Mr. Saddler had a leading role in initiating an investigation and then negotiating a settlement valued at approximately $44 million with a HUD-insured lender that had submitted in excess of 28,000 inaccurate underwriter's certifications to HUD. Earlier in his career, he successfully resolved HUD's largest ever administrative sanctions case against a multifamily mortgage lender, which had obtained mortgage insurance for three ineligible hotels. In that case, Mr. Saddler's actions saved the government in excess of $11 million. In 2007 he received a Meritorious Executive rank award under 5 U.S.C. § 4507, in connection with his leadership of legal operations for the Office of Inspector General of HUD.

Mr. Saddler holds a J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore, and a B.A. from Washington College in Chestertown, MD.

Christopher Sharpley, Deputy SIG - Investigations

Christopher R. Sharpley is SIGTARP's Deputy SIG for Investigations. He comes to SIGTARP with over 26 years experience as a Federal Special Agent, most recently serving as the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations and Inspections at the U.S. Department of Energy, from 2003 to 2009. Mr. Sharpley retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves in October 2002. Prior to retirement, he held a trusted key position as Director of Security Operations (Reserve Component), Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisitions), providing security program and counterintelligence operational oversight to classified Air Force Special Access Programs. As an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force, he advanced to the position of commander over an AFOSI field investigative unit. His experience includes building performance based accountability organizations at the national level and heading large task force operations involving sensitive national security matters, such as theft of sensitive nuclear data within the nation's nuclear weapons complex. Mr. Sharpley is a recipient of several military medals and has received many civilian awards and honors, including the Award for Excellence from the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency.

Mr. Sharpley has a Master's Degree in National Security Affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Mr. Sharpley received a Bachelor's Degree in Administration of Justice from the American University, Washington, D.C. He is also a graduate of accredited programs at the Federal Executive Institute and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

MEMBERS OF SENIOR STAFF

AJ Germek, Chief Information Officer

AJ Germek, is one of SIGTARP’s Assistant Deputy SIG for Operations. Prior to this role he was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Transportation and served as the Acting CTO. In that role, he evaluated emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, secure remote access, ubiquitous network connectivity and on-demand storage. He also developed a Data Center strategy to improve the security and efficiency of the numerous data centers in use by the Department, and a methodology for evaluating and rating the processing centers. Prior to that assignment, he worked for the DOT’s National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration where he developed the IT strategic plan and modernization blueprint. Mr. Germek has also served as Chief Operating Officer for GuideComm, a systems integrations company in the telecommunications industry, as Vice President of Business Development for Fidelity Investments, as Chief Financial Officer for Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, as Controller for AT&T’s Advanced Mobile Phone Service and as a Consultant for Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Mr. Germek holds a Masters Degree in Finance from Case Western Reserve University, a Bachelors Degree in Liberal Art from Cornell University and earned his CPA in Massachusetts.

Mark Little, Director - Audit

Mark Little is one of SITARP’s Associate Directors for Audit and comes to SIGTARP with 35 years of federal service with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”). At SIGTARP, Mr. Little is responsible for directing reviews of the Administration’s Making Home Affordable Program and for implementing the quality review program for audits. At GAO, he served as Assistant Director in the Defense Capabilities and Management Division and was responsible for directing performance reviews of the Department of Defense’s facilities infrastructure programs, including work involving the management and costs of privatization programs on military installations, management of military family housing programs, management and funding of base operations, sustainment and recapitalization of military facilities, encroachment and acquisition of military training ranges and lands, and consolidation of U.S. military presence overseas. Mr. Little served in both GAO’s Far East Office in Hawaii and headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Little received an undergraduate degree in business administration from Fairmont State University. He is also a 2003 graduate of the National Security Leadership Course, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University and Johns Hopkins University.

Deborah Mason, Chief Human Capital Officer

Deborah M. Mason is SIGTARP's Director, Human Resources. She comes to SIGTARP from the Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary where she served for over five years as the Associate Director, Human Resources providing a wide range of HR services. Ms. Mason brings 30+ years of human resources policy and operational experience to SIGTARP. Her federal government experience includes positions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army Civilian Recruitment Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Civilian Personnel Operations Center, U.S. Army Civilian Personnel Evaluation Agency, Department of State, Office of Inspector General, and Department of Defense, Civilian Personnel Management Services. Her experience includes Applying human capital strategies and human capital techniques, and utilizes appropriate HR flexibilities to attract, retain, and leverage the skills and knowledge needed in an organization, providing interpretive technical advisory services, analyzing laws, government-wide regulations, rules and policies, planning and conducting comprehensive personnel management evaluations, writing reports on evaluation findings, including identifying systemic issues, and recommending appropriate action to improve program administration, and developing operational and/or program strategies for attaining delivery of products and services that result in customer satisfaction.

Deborah Mathis, Chief Financial Officer

Deborah A. Mathis, is SIGTARP’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining SIGTARP she was at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia as the Financial Effectiveness Officer for the Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease; she served in this position for five years. Ms. Mathis spent twenty years of her career at CDC including serving as the Budget Officer and Associate Director for Management and Operations. In addition, she served on the CDC Federal Credit Union’s Board of Director’s for more than 9 years.

Ms. Mathis has a undergraduate degree in Public Health from James Madison University and a graduate degree from Pepperdine University in Human Resource Management.

Lynn Perkoski, Assistant Deputy SIG - Operations

Lynn Perkoski is SIGTARP’s Principal Assistant Deputy SIG, Operations with specific responsibility for Policy, Logistics and Special Programs. Lynn brings over 32 years of Federal experience with enterprise-wide knowledge, cross-functional disciplines and collaborative experience in Information Technology, Employee Relations, EEO, Customer Service, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Section 508, policy, and training. Lynn’s previous assignment was at the Department of Transportation (DOT) as a policy advisor and senior technical advisor to the CIO, Deputy CIO, Associate CIOs and senior department officials ensuring regulatory compliance with all applicable statutory and federal requirements. Lynn analyzed IT best practices and trends from the public and private sectors and crafted applicable departmental guidance and process reengineering. Prior to DOT, Lynn rose through the ranks of the US Postal Service applying her knowledge and experience to progress into management, leading many TIGER Teams.

Ms. Perkoski holds a Master degree with high honors conferred by The Johns Hopkins University in Information Sciences; and, a double-major undergraduate degree with high honors from George Washington University in Sociology and Political Science.

Scott Rebein, Special Agent in Charge - Investigations

Scott F. Rebein became the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Investigations Division in March 2009. As the SAC, he provides leadership to investigative operations and represents the Deputy Special Inspector General, Investigations Division in his absence. Mr. Rebein also directs a national level Federal workforce. With over 21 years experience as a Federal special agent, Mr. Rebein started his federal law enforcement career in 1987 as a Special Agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) investigating, managing and overseeing all aspects of investigations into criminal tax violations, money laundering and related financial crimes. He was a Special Agent in both the Richmond, Virginia and Los Angeles, California Field Offices. He began his management and leadership career with IRS-CI as a Supervisory Special Agent in the Louisville Field Office in 1996, then as a Headquarters Analyst in Washington, DC. He began his senior leadership with IRS-CI in 2001 as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge in the Miami Field Office, then as the Special Agent in Charge in the Indianapolis Field Office, and finishing as the Director, Special Investigative Techniques at IRS-CI Headquarters, overseeing all covert operations conducted by IRS-CI nationwide.

Mr. Rebein earned his Bachelor’s Degree in accounting from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Richard Rosenfeld, Chief Investigative Counsel

Richard M. Rosenfeld is Chief Counsel to the Investigations Division of SIGTARP. Prior to joining SIGTARP he was a partner, respectively, at the law firms Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field LLP. During his time in the private sector Mr. Rosenfeld focused on bank and securities regulation and compliance, corporate governance and defense including representing broker-dealers, hedge funds, investment advisers, financial service providers and public and private companies both in the U.S. and abroad. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Rosenfeld worked in London as the SEC's first and only internationally based representative. His time in London was balanced between organizing, managing and directing one of the largest multinational financial fraud litigations in SEC history, and working with the highest-ranking regulators of several countries to address cooperation in international securities maters. During his eight years with the SEC, Mr. Rosenfeld assisted multiple U.S. Attorney's offices throughout the U.S., including working as a federal prosecutor, where he led prosecutions involving money laundering, tax evasion, securities fraud, as well as bank, mail and wire fraud.

Mr. Rosenfeld received his B.A. with highest honors in 1991 from Rutgers University. He earned his J.D. in 1994 from Cornell Law School, where he was a member of the Cornell International Law Journal's board of editors. Mr. Rosenfeld has guest lectured at the George Washington School of Law and is a published author.

Jim Shafer, Director - Audit

Jim Shafer is one of SIGTARP’s Directors of Audits. He brings extensive experience developing the strategic direction for and leading multidisciplinary teams in evaluating the program results and internal controls of major Federal programs. In this regard Mr. Shafer has significant experience using Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) requirements and standards to assess the effectiveness of federal programs and strategic plans against performance goals. Most recently, Mr. Shafer worked at the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) where he worked on strategic and audit planning, report preparation and report quality review processes. Prior to SIGIR, Mr. Shafer worked at the Government Accountability Office, in Washington, D.C., from 1972 to 2007. There, he was responsible for diverse reviews in the defense and international security areas, including work involving acquisitions of major military weapons systems, and international nonproliferation programs implemented by the Departments of Energy, Defense and State. In his senior capacity at GAO, Mr. Shafer developed GAO strategic plans, and built audit teams and expertise to accomplish program goals. Mr. Shafer is the recipient of numerous awards in GAO including GAO’s meritorious service award.

Mr. Shafer holds a Masters in Business Administration from West Virginia University.