Ed Mills
Managing Director and Washington Policy Director
Raymond James

Ed Mills joined Raymond James in November 2017 as a managing director and Washington policy analyst, bringing more than 15 years of Washington, D.C., experience. Mr. Mills concentrates on the impact of Wall Street reform and housing finance policy on the financial markets and provides in-depth analysis of student lending, budget, and corporate taxation policy. He is frequently consulted by policymakers and stakeholders, and his work has been featured extensively in media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, American Banker, and CNBC.

Prior to joining Raymond James, Mr. Mills spent more than seven years as an analyst and head of the Washington Policy Group at FBR & Co and nearly a decade on Capitol Hill. He worked in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, serving as a professional staff member for the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, a financial services policy advisor for Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York, and a senior banking and finance policy advisor for the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He holds a B.A. in political science from Boston College

Isaac Boltansky
Director of Policy Research
Compass Point Research & Trading

Isaac Boltansky is the Director of Policy Research for Compass Point Research & Trading, Mr. Boltansky coordinates the firm’s Washington policy analysis and follows financial services policy issues with a particular focus on mortgage finance, consumer lending, education services, capital formation measures, and tax policy.

Mr. Boltansky joined Compass Point from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Congressional Oversight Panel and previously worked as an analyst at EJF Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund. Mr. Boltansky earned his B.A. in Political Science and History from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Stefanie Miller
Managing Director
FiscalNote Markets

Stefanie leads the politics, trade, tobacco, and cannabis research coverage areas at FN Markets. For more than a decade Stefanie has covered regulatory risk to the economy, the financial markets, and to specific sectors therein. Most recently at Sandhill Strategy, which Stefanie co-founded with Katie Bays, Stefanie’s best-in-class research hit on a wide range of policy areas, including Washington’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S.-China trade war, and the Administration’s ban of flavored e-cigarettes.

Stefanie’s initial foray into political analysis for a Wall Street audience focused on Congressional passage of TARP, the Affordable Care Act, and Dodd-Frank, as well as Congress’s failed attempt at cap-and-trade policy in 2007-2010. Since then, Stef’s research has looked at Congressional tax reform and healthcare repeal efforts of 2017; ongoing Administration, Congressional, and state regulatory actions impacting the tobacco and cannabis sectors; and recent Congressional scrutiny of the Big Tech industry, among others. Stefanie appears frequently as a commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV and is quoted regularly in financial press.

She received her MBA from Georgetown University and her BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Nebraska.