The Ma Squad

January 2020

Visiting the new UnitedAg Health & Wellness Center in Selma, California. The center serves farm workers and their families. Front row, left to right: UnitedAG Health & Wellness Center Nurse Practitioner Johnny Jimenez, Treasurer Ma, PacificAg Consulting owner and President Thomas Amaro. Back row (left to right): CA Health Facilities Financing Authority Executive Director Frank Moore, Bream Family Farms President Eric Bream, Elite Corporate Wellness owner and CEO Nicholas Gambini, the Treasurer’s Central California External Affairs Representative Seth Doulton, Deputy Treasurer Audrey Noda, CHFFA Deputy Executive Director Carolyn Aboubechara.

Valley Children’s Healthcare President and CEO Todd Suntrapak and Treasurer Ma tour the hospital’s Madera, CA, facilities to see firsthand the significant impact the Children’s Hospital Bond Act funding has on children’s programs and services, including the expansion and renovation of essential patient care areas and equipment throughout the hospital.

Treasurer Ma and Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins at the opening of the Bluewater and Stella state-of-the-art low-income housing project in San Diego. From left to right: San Diego Housing Commission President and CEO Richard Gentry, developer Affirmed Housing Vice President Jimmy Silverwood, Treasurer Ma, Affirmed Housing President and CEO James Silverwood, Senator Atkins.

The Treasurer’s team at the California State Association of Counties’ Annual Conference. From left to right: Northern California External Affairs Deputy Noah Starr, Rachell Owen-Reinwald, External Affairs Central California Representative Seth Doulton, California Pollution Control Financing Authority Deputy Director Janae Davis, California Health Facilities Financing Authority Deputy Director Carolyn Aboubechara.

The 2019 public sector Bond Buyer Trailblazing Women award winners included Treasurer Ma; Emily Brock, Director of the Government Finance Officers Association’s Federal Liaison Center; Kelly Flannery, CFO of the City of Charlotte; and Olga Chernat, Executive Director of New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority.

In New York with Mark Maroney, a managing director for RBC Capital Markets, which served as the senior managing underwriter in the hugely successful sale of $272.6 million of lease revenue bonds for the expansion of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) headquarters in West Sacramento. From left to right: Mr. Maroney, CalSTRS CFO Julie Underwood, Public Finance Division Assistant Director Julie Giordano, Treasure Ma, IBank Interim Executive Director Nancee Robles, Chief of Staff Genevieve Jopanda.