Senior Manager
Baker Tilly
Jessica serves as a senior manager within Baker Tilly’s Municipal Advisory practice, where she helps lead the primary disclosure group and provides strategic direction to support compliance with municipal disclosure regulations. In this role, she oversees the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of disclosure documents.
Jessica provides independent, fiduciary guidance to state and local governments throughout the planning, structuring, and execution of public finance transactions. She brings more than 15 years of experience in public finance, with deep expertise in municipal disclosure, debt management, healthcare, higher education, housing, and structured finance.
With increasing reports of cyber activity in the public finance industry as the war in the Middle East continues, our panel of experts will discuss the severity of what the market faces, what kinds of best practices for guarding against them exist – or should exist – and why all players in the industry need to coalesce around common goals to be more efficient in battling the threats.
From what to disclose and how to insure against threats and who pays the costs associated with them, all parties – issuers, underwriters, advisors, investors and trustees – need to better prepare for the expected onslaught of threats. It also signals the industry, and governments, need to become more efficient overall with managing the threats as part of day-to-day management.