Lisette Camacho – Bio
Lisette Camacho has over 17 years of experience in government accounting, budgeting, and finance.

She began serving as Tempe’s Deputy City Manager, CFO in July 2024. She oversees the city’s financial services, budget, human resources, public works, and transportation and sustainability departments. She joined Tempe in August 2022 as the city’s Financial Services Director and oversaw the financial operations including accounting, procurement, tax and license, risk management, customer service and billing, and facilities.

Prior to joining the City of Tempe, she worked for the City of Glendale for more than nine years and served in progressively responsible positions including Controller, Assistant Budget and Finance Director, and Budget and Finance Director.

Lisette holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Global Business Management in Finance and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Accountancy from Arizona State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Robert Drexler – Bio
Robert Drexler has over 16 years experience in municipal finance and has been with Bullhead City, AZ for 6 years. Robert obtained his B.A. in Accounting from Hope College. Robert has been involved with several community groups and held leadership positions in Rotary and young professional organizations. In 2021 Robert was lead for Bullhead City in implementing a water billing system and converting the wastewater billing system for 20,000 accounts.

Crystal Hadfield – Bio
Crystal Hadfield has been with the City of Willcox for almost 18 years. Crystal was promoted to Finance Director in July of 2014 and took on the additional role of City Clerk in 2017. Crystal is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a BS in Commerce.

Celina Morris – Bio
Celina Morris serves as the Finance Director for the Town of Prescott Valley, bringing over 26 years of extensive experience in finance, accounting, and enterprise risk management across both public and private sectors. She has held several executive leadership positions, including Chief Fiscal Officer, Treasurer, Director of Finance, Director of Risk Management, and Corporate Controller for various organizations. Additionally, Celina has served as an auditor for Deloitte and Touche and KPMG.

Celina holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and a Master’s Degree in Accountancy from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. She is a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Risk Manager (CRM), and Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC), and is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Throughout her career, Celina has led and participated in over 36 implementations of systems such as financial and accounting, budget and forecasting, risk management information, human resources information and payroll, purchasing and contract management, grant management, financial and benchmark reporting, collections, debt management, and computer-aided dispatch.

Rachel Ormsby– Bio
Rachel Ormsby has over 13 years of experience providing accounting and audit services to governmental entities, including extensive experience in Single Audits. As a member of FORVIS National Public Sector Group, she currently serves as an audit partner for numerous clients across Texas, Arkansas, and Arizona. She also serves as the Public Sector Market Industry Leader for the Arizona, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Waco practice units.

As an Audit Partner, Rachel is responsible for supervising the audit team, providing guidance to management and the engagement team, communicating audit results to City Council and management, and authorizing the signing and release of the audit reports. In addition, Rachel has conducted presentations, providing continuing professional education for local roundtables and regional chapters of the Government Finance Officers Association of Texas (GFOAT).

Rachel is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Texas Society of CPAs, Government Finance Officers Association, GFOAz, and GFOAT. She serves on the GFOA’s Special Review Committee. In addition, Rachel serves on the Board and the Finance and Audit Committee of the North Texas Commission.

She was named a 2018 Rising Star by the Texas Society of CPAs.

Rachel is a 2010 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, with B.B.A. and M.P.A degrees.

Mike Showers – Bio
Mike Showers has been the Finance Director for the Town of Camp Verde since 2011. Mike comes from a background in for-profit and non-profit organizations, completing the tri-fecta with this position in government. Educated at ASU with a BS in Accountancy, Mike has spent his career working with mostly small and mid-sized organizations including his own non-profit organization which taught music, drama and dance to local students and community members in Camp Verde. Mike has served on the GFOAz Education committee for numerous years. Mike has been married for 33 years, has 4 grown children and 3 grandkids that are pretty much the focus of his life at this point.

Karin Smith – Bio
Karin Smith received her Master in Business Administration from the University of Arizona in 2008. Her other college degrees include a Master of Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University and a Master of Public Administration from Arizona State University. Before joining the consulting division of HeinfeldMeech in 2011, Karin’s experience included 12 years of experience working in school district governmental finance and grant programs management. Karin is also a Certified Administrator in School Finance and Operations (SFO) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). She maintains memberships in the Arizona Association of School Business Officials (AASBO), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), and American Institute of CPAs.




Wendy Gomez – Bio
Wendy Gomez grew up in Tucson and obtained my BSBA degree in accounting and MPA with public finance concentration from the University of Arizona. I’ve worked for the Town of Oro Valley, a suburb north of Tucson with a population of about 45,000, since 2009, starting as their budget analyst and have been their deputy finance director since 2019. I primarily oversee the accounting operations for the Finance Department, but continue to be involved with budget operations as well. I enjoy running, traveling and reading.



Brian Wright – Bio
Brian Wright has been a municipal Finance Director for over 26 years. He is currently the Finance Director for the City of Eloy where he has held that position for the last 19 years. He has also worked for the City of Willcox and the City of Page. He was the GFOAz president in 2011 but has since been the organizer/chairman of the GFOAz golf tournament.

Mark Reader – Bio
Mark Reader Managing Director, Stifel Nicolaus has been a municipal bond investment banker for over 35-years in Arizona. He represents a variety of Cities/Towns/Counties and other municipal jurisdictions in connection with the issuance of their various types of debt obligations – as financial advisor or underwriter. His experience includes general obligation bond elections and subsequent bond sales, revenue bonds, utility bonds and WIFA transactions (acquisition and new money improvements), improvement district assessment bonds, certificates of participations and is a expert in the specialized area of Community Facilities Districts (CFDs and related issuance of general obligation bonds and special assessment revenue bonds) – for both master planned residential communities, utility and economic development projects. In 2021/22, Mr. Reader helped lead and manage with his Stifel colleagues approximately 25 PSPRS restructuring transactions totaling approximately $2 billion in transaction to assist our clients with their unfunded pension liabilities and related management.

Mr. Reader holds a bachelor of science in Accounting and Finance from the University of Arizona and holds his Series 7, Series 63 and Series 50 regulatory licenses.

Robin L. Schlimgen – Bio
Robin L. Schlimgen is a Managing Director and head of BLX’s Phoenix location (which opened in the Spring of 2007). She is a 33-year veteran of arbitrage compliance services. Robin’s unique qualifications include arbitrage training from both accounting and law perspectives.

The foundation of Robin’s arbitrage experience is based on an accounting point of view during her 16-years at Ernst and Young. Robin was responsible for the preparation of hundreds of complex arbitrage reports, staff training, and technical calculation review. Before joining BLX, she served as the Senior Manager, in charge of the Arizona arbitrage practice and project management.

Robin’s arbitrage experience was further developed upon joining BLX and receiving additional training from the law/regulation stance. She is currently the project manager for numerous BLX clients. She conducts technical reviews for a wide variety of tax-exempt financings, including, but not limited to, local and state level, education, healthcare, housing, student loan, and transportation. Additionally, she trains new arbitrage consultants, ensures the timely preparation of reports, and resolves technical arbitrage questions from both staff and clients. Robin has spoken to several regional associations about arbitrage rebate and yield restriction regulations and often provides training sessions to clients.

Paul Gales, Esq. – Bio
Paul Gales focuses his practice on various types of tax-exempt and taxable financings, including general obligation, sales tax, revenue, special assessment, certificate of participation and municipal leasing issues and financings for water and sewer and education projects. Paul has represented issuers, underwriters, and other transaction participants in a comprehensive variety of municipal and finance transactions.