Kimberley Quinones - email
Managing Director of Public Finance

Ms. Quinones joined Ramirez & Co, Inc. in September 2006 as a Managing Director in the Firm’s Los Angeles Office. She has 24 years of experience in Public Finance and will be responsible for the Firm’s banking efforts in California and the Western Region. Her extensive experience with state-level issuers, cities and counties, ranges from working with general fund credits (including pension obligation issues) to funding major infrastructure projects. In transportation, Ms. Quinones will work with the Ramirez team to serve issuers across the nation and in Puerto Rico.

Ms. Quinones senior managed the State of California Department of Transportation’s $614,850,000 inaugural GARVEE financing in 2004. She worked closely with the Department of Transportation, the California Transportation Commission and the Office of the State Treasurer in structuring the State’s GARVEE program, California’s first state-wide revenue bonding program for highways. The program achieved a double-A rating despite a rating and sale during the highly uncertain period of California’s gubernatorial recall, the State’s record budget deficit, and the absence of a federal reauthorization bill. In the transit sector, Ms. Quinones senior managed the Los Angeles County MTA’s leveraging of its full-funding grant agreement for the Gold Line Eastside Extension in 2005. Prior to arriving on the West Coast, she senior-managed a $708,340,000 refunding and new money issue of State of Connecticut Special Tax Obligation transportation bonds and several issues for the Puerto Rico Highway Authority, funding both the highway program and the Tren Urbano. Ms. Quinones was previously with Citigroup in Los Angeles and New York, joining Citigroup as a Director in the Northeast in 2000 and moving to Los Angeles as a Director in the Public Finance group in 2002. Prior to her position with Citigroup, Ms. Quinones was with Raymond James & Associates in New York, where she established its Public Finance effort in the New York tri-state area in 1997. She also served in the public sector in 1996-1997, as the Director of Economic Development, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Planning for the City of New York, where she represented the Mayor’s Office on the board of the NYC Economic Development Corporation and the NYC Industrial Development Authority. She previously held positions in Public Finance with Citicorp Securities and Prudential-Bache Capital Funding.

Ms. Quinones was awarded a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 1982. She is a past President of the Financial Women’s Association (www.fwa.org), a 1200 member professional association and non-profit corporation promoting professionalism in finance and leadership roles for women. Ms. Quinones was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Municipal Forum of New York from 1998-2000.