NAFOA Fall Finance & Tribal Economies Conference 2018 | NAFOA Native American Finance Officers Association | 30 September 2018 | Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa, 1300 Tuyuna Trail, Bernalillo, NM 87004, US

The fall conference is an opportunity to meet with tribal leaders, federal agencies, and accounting professionals to discuss important issues facing Indian Country. The two-day conference offers a number of educational sessions and two general sessions made up of industry-leading expert panelists.

2018 Speakers

David Vaudt
Chairman, Governmental Accounting Standards Board

Daniel Gottlieb
Director of Investments, Permanent Fund Investments, LLC, The Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Deidra Mitchell
President & CEO, Waséyabek Development Company, LLC

Edward Ayoob
Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Rhonda Harjo
Deputy Counsel, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Greg Smith
Partner Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP

Danny Martinez
Audit Partner, Carr, Riggs, & Ingram, LLC

Tasha Repp
NAFOA's GASAC Representative and Tribal Services Partner, Moss Adams

Roberta Reese
Senior Project Manager, Governmental Accounting Standards Board

Frank Rusco
Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Robert Keller
Treasurer, Gila River Indian Community

Larry Wright, Jr.
Chairman, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

John Sneed
Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Geoff Urbina
Managing Director, Western Regional Manager, KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc.

Arlan Melendez
Chairman, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony

John Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund

Merrill Godfrey
Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Steve Abangan
CFO, Ho-Chunk Nation

Diane Gange
CFO, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe

Lisa Young
President, Oregon Government Finance Officers Association

Melanie Benjamin
Chief Executive, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians

Bryan Benso
Vice President of Planning and Real Estate Development, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians

Michael Canfield
President and CEO, Indian Pueblos Marketing and Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Richard Leibovitch
Managing Partner, Arel Capital

Evan Eneman
Managing Director, MGO National Cannabis Practice

Bill Sterud
Chairman, Puyallup Tribe

Christine Swanick
Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Terra Branson
Director of Planning and Grants, Muscogee Creek Nation

Eric De Flon
CFO, Pueblo of Isleta

James Montoya
Principal, Tribal Services, REDW LLC

Marc Payán
Grants Administrator Manager, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

Darren Bowmen
CEO, 501(c) Services

Derek Valdo
CEO, AMERIND

2018 Sponsors:

CO-CHAIRS:
• Wells Fargo

PLATINUM:
• Amerind Risk

GOLD:
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Dorsey
• FEG Investment Advisors
• Faegre Baker Daniels
• KeyBank
• MGO
• Mossadams
• PNC
• REDW

SILVER:
• 501c
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Tribal First
• Arctic IT
• Arel Capital
• Beacon Pointe Institutional Investment Advisors
• Bluebird CPAs
• Capital One
• CliftonLarsonAllen
• FS Advisors
• Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP
• Hobbs Straus Dean & walker
• Payden & Rygel Investment Management
• RSM
• Baird
• Rockefeller Capital Management
• SheppardMullin
• TFA Capital Partners
• Travois
• US Bank
• UBS
• Wipfli
• Joseph Eve

BRONZE:
• BDO
• BKD
• BOK Financial
• Bold Concepts
• CRI CARR RIGGS & Ingram
• Dentons
• Elcan and Associates,Inc.
• Finley & Cook
• Indigenous Post
• KMPG
• KUTAKROCK
• Muckleshoot casino
• Mutual of America
• Native Business
• DEMD
• Orrick
• PCMG
• Pinnacle Bank
• Providence First
• Rice Voelker
• Software Simplified
• USI Consulting Group