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4215 Worth Ave, Suite 200
Columbus, OH 43219
Phone: 614.629.6967

Mike serves as Baird’s lead investment banker for Ohio issuers, serving K-12 public schools, municipalities, counties & townships. Since joining Baird in 2007, he has worked in the Structured Finance Group as well as the Ohio Public Finance Group and has underwritten, placed or advised on all types of financing structures in Ohio, including general obligation and revenue bonds, BANs, TANs, Certificates of Participation, lease purchases and tax increment financings. Since 2014, Mike has advised his clients, assisted with pre-ballot work, structured their bond issuances and served as sole underwriter, placement agent or municipal advisor on over $2 Billion in par amount of bonds and leases. This amount is not artificially enhanced by serving as co-manager on large State or State Agency bonds, but from working with over 250 small to mid-sized issuers who have relied on Mike and his financial advice to issue their financing at the lowest cost to the Issuer. Mike is licensed through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and has several registrations including a General Securities Representative (Series 7), a Municipal Advisor (Series 50), a Municipal Securities Principal (Series 53) and a Uniform Securities Agent (Series 63). Mike received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University and currently resides in Westerville with his wife and four children.

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4215 Worth Ave., Suite 200
Columbus, OH 43219
Phone: 614.629.6954

Mark serves as lead support banker for Baird’s engagements with Ohio municipal bond issuers, providing both analytical and transactional support.  He has worked on over $1.2 Billion in approximate par value of underwriting and private placement bond issues since joining Baird in 2013.  He received a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) in finance from Miami University and is licensed through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) as a General Securities Representative (Series 7) and is a registered Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Municipal Advisor (MSRB) (Series 50).

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21 E State St Fl 14
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: 614.744.5410

Mike A. Savage – Vice President & Managing Director of Fifth Third Securities, Inc. is an Institutional Investment Representative based in Columbus, Ohio. Mike joined Fifth Third Securities in July 2006. Mike specializes in investing funds for Ohio governmental entities that are ORC compliant. Mike is a 2006 graduate from the Ohio State University with a B.A. in economics. He completed his MBA in Business Administration at Capital University in 2012.  Mike, a lifetime Ohio resident and Columbus native, holds Series 7, Series 63 and Series 65 NASD licenses with no complaints on his U4. Mike and his wife Megan have two children, and are residents of Upper Arlington, Ohio.

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127 Public Square
Suite 4900
Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 479-8395

Ryan Callender’s experience includes serving as bond counsel, counsel to credit enhancers, underwriters, trustees and public issuers in a variety of conventional and capital market public debt financings. Ryan is experienced in general obligation debt, revenue bond debt, tax increment financing, special assessments and certificates of participation. He also has experience with a variety of industrial development revenue bonds, housing revenue bonds, water and sewer revenue bonds, conduit financings and 501(c)(3) bonds.

One of Ryan’s primary areas of focus is in the structuring of water and sewer revenue debt financing. Ryan has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel and disclosure counsel for a variety of water and/or sewer entities throughout the country. In addition, Ryan has experience serving as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel for various state revolving funds including serving as bond counsel to the Ohio Water Development Authority for more than US$1 billion of bond and commercial paper issues. Ryan is also an active member of and frequent speaker for the Council of Infrastructure Financing Authorities (CIFA). Ryan is an active member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and currently serves as chair of the Board of Trustees of Lakeland Community College.

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2750 Old Kropp Rd
Grove City, OH 43123
Phone: 614.325.9562

Barbara Shaner formed the independent consulting firm, OhioPro Advocacy in April, 2017. She currently provides advocacy services for three education related professional associations; the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators, the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators and the Ohio Association of School Business Officials. 

Barbara represents association members to the Governor’s office and the Ohio General Assembly, providing testimony on legislation and working with legislators on pending legislation. Her duties also include working with other organizations and state agencies on education issues and working with the members of the three groups to assist with grass roots advocacy efforts. She reports to members about current legislation, school funding, regulatory conditions, and other topics of interest to the education community. She also writes articles for association publications and makes presentations on legislative issues and involvement. 

Barbara began her education advocacy career in 1999 when she joined the Ohio Association of School Business Officials as Director of Legislative Services. She became the Associate Executive Director in 2006, a position she held until striking out on her own in 2017 as Advocacy Specialist for the three groups. 

Barbara is a current member of the Healthcare and Pension Advocates group (STRS) and serves as president for the Ohio Education Policy Institute. she served on the state’s advisory committee to the School Employees Health Care Board from 2009-2012. She served on Governor Bob Taft’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Funding Student Success in 2004-2005. 

Prior to her role as an education advocacy specialist, Barbara worked as a consultant and lobbyist for several agriculture related organizations and the Ohio Department of Agriculture in their Office of Farmland Preservation.           

Barbara resides in Grove City, Ohio with her husband Jim Chappelear.  She has two children, (Seth and Jessica) and two grandsons, Joey (age 8) and Owen (age 3).