Carol Samuels Senior Vice President Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation, Portland Carol Samuels, Senior Vice President, Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation, Portland. Ms. Samuels has worked with municipalities in the Northwest for 20 years on financings of every type and description, both traditional and nontraditional. Most recently, she has focused on working with school districts on various ARRA-related financing, including Qualified School Construction Bonds and Build America Bonds. Ms. Samuels is a frequent presenter at and former board member of the Oregon Association of School Business Officials and the Oregon Municipal Finance Officers Association (OMFOA), and she received the OMFOA Outstanding Contribution to Public Finance award in 2002. Prior to joining SNW, Ms. Samuels served in the Public Finance Departments of U.S. National Bank of Oregon and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette in New York. She also served as a financial analyst for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York and as a lobbyist for the Governor of New Jersey in Washington, DC. (10/09)