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CSG Advisors Incorporated January 28, 2015 Proposal: Housing Financial Analytical and Advisory Services Page 13 of 25 Gene Slater is the chairman of CSG Advisors and co-founded the firth and its predecessors beginning in 1978. He has more than 30 years of national and California experience in municipal finance, structuring transactions and real estate projects, and assisting public agencies in major negotiations. He has served as financial advisor on more than $10 billion of housing bond financings and is a national leader on public-private financings for public agencies. As examples of his past experience, Gene: • Initiated and designed with U.S. Treasury in 2009 what became Treasury's: $15.1 billion New Issue Bond Program for state and local housing finance agency bonds which has financed mortgages for 100,000 first-time buyers and 24,000 rental units; and $6.2 billion Temporary Credit and Liquidity Program Served as HUD Central's national consultant on complex FHA multi-family bond refunding requests, • Is currently assisting San Bernardino County in negotiations with FHA, State of California and major banks on a nationally innovative effort to help homeowners with defaulted mortgages, and to assure that properties where the homeowner cannot remain are re-sold to owner-occupants to help strengthen not weaken neighborhood stability. • Led the firm's effort as the national financial advisor to the Resolution Trust Corporation on all its tax-exempt related assets, including more than 800 bond issues from savings and loans throughout the United States, and structured the RTC's national bridge financing program for disposing of assets to local and state governments and non- profits. • Structured and helped conduct the City of Anaheim's many years of successful negotiations with The Walt Disney Company for over$1.5 billion of public and private investment in a second theme park, expansion of the convention center and public infrastructure, and more recently on hotel negotiations and redevelopment of Resort Area in conjunction,with ARC transit line. • Served as financial advisor to San Francisco and the San Diego Housing Commission since 1980, Los Angeles County since 1983, Alameda County, Anaheim, Hayward and Santa Ana since 1985, Orange County since 1987 including before and after the bankruptcy, and the City of Los Angeles since 1990. • Helped design the City of Los Angeles' successful program to use $300 million of special Federal CDBG funds to repair 15,000 units damaged by the Northridge Earthquake, e Helped develop and implement the City and County of Sari Francisco's longterm affordable housing plan including use of City-owned sites, non-profit purchase of Tenderloin hotels and shared appreciation homeownership; structured more than 40 financings; helped design and implement $100 million in 4 series of Proposition A general obligation bond issues for affordability; chaired the task force of real estate, advocacy, community groups that helped lead to inclusionary zoning; and negotiated affordability covenants for Mission Bay. • Helped design and implement public housing modernization for the Government of Puerto Rico, including financing more than $500 million of rehabilitation and raising Low Income Housing Tax Credit proceeds of more than$235 million. Gene received a Master of City Planning from M.LT., a B.A. summa cum laude in government from Columbia University, and received a traveling fellowship to the London School of Economics. He received a mid-career Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University where he studied capital finance at the Harvard Business School and created and taught the first joint Harvard - M.I.T. seminars on public, private partnerships.