Leading Experts in Rating Agency Experts

Susan Abbott is a Managing Director at New Harbor, a Connecticut-based investment banking consulting firm. Ms. Abbott currently participates regularly in expert witness cases related to the ratings agency industry. In addition, she also chairs and moderates vaious panels focused on this industry. ...

Amanda Atkins is the CEO of Afinia Capital Group. Afinia is backed by Deutsche Bank, Eos and Atkins Capital and assists insurance companies release capital and streamline mature or discontinued liabilities. Concurrently, she is the CEO of Atkins Capital, a consulting firm which provides financial, strategic...

Maureen Bolton is the Principal in Global Capital Access, an investment consultation firm specializing in developing securitization programs for domestic and international clients. She specializes in advising clients on creating funding programs for a wide variety of consumer assets, structuring efficient...

David L. Boyle is a Director on the board of RAM Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurer serving the financial guaranty industry. In addition, Mr. Boyle serves as a Trustee of Wittenberg University (Springfield, OH). Until July 2005, Mr. Boyle was Vice Chairman of Ambac Financial Group. Mr. Boyle joined Ambac...

James Butler is the Managing Director of Rigley Financial, LLC, and the Senior Partner for Rigley Capital, LLC, an Illinois-based origination and consulting firm specializing in providing advisory services to Municipal, Governmental-Issues, Consumer, Energy, Commercial, and Mortgage industry-related...

Bruno Cova is Co-Chair of the Milan office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, where he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and corporate governance, energy matters, restructurings, and complex cross-border litigation. Previously, Mr. Cova was the Chief Legal Adviser to...

Paul Equale is the President of Equale & Associates, where he consults on financial services issues, including credit cards, subprime mortgages, GSEs Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, online gaming, state, federal legislative and regulatory insurance issues, as well as domestic and international political and...

Jerome Fons is the Principal of Fons Risk Solutions. He provides advisory in the areas of measuring and pricing credit risk, developing statistical credit risk models, and Basel II implementation. Mr. Fons also advises asset managers on investment strategies with respect to rating agencies. Prior to...

Albert Greco is a Senior Researcher at Institute for Publishing Research, Inc. and a Professor at Fordham's Graduate School of Business Administration. He prepares industry projections for the Book Industry Study Group Inc. He has authored-edited 9 books including “The Book Publishing Industry" and...

Prakash Gupta is Vice President of CDO and Structured Credit group at Bank of New York Mellon, a Middle-Market Investment Bank in New York, where he is working since March 2008. Prior to this, he was the Principal of PG Schaum, a financial services consulting firm. Before starting his own practice...

Robert G. Heim is Partner at the law firm of Meyers & Heim in New York City, where he specializes in corporate and securities law, including corporate formation and capital raising, securities regulatory work, securities litigation, white collar criminal defense and NASD arbitrations. Previously, Mr....

Orlan Johnson is a Partner in the Business Department of Saul Ewing in Washington, DC, where he has in-depth and practical experience in mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset acquisitions and dispositions, corporate financing, joint ventures, proxy contests and tender offers, and general corporate...

Loring Justice is Partner in the Law office of Loring Justice in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he practices tort law. He specializes in products and pharmaceutical liability, nursing home negligence and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and mass torts including, tobacco and asbestos litigation. Mr. Justice...

Adeel Khan is Chief Executive Officer of Potentia Inc., which provides a unique combination of corporate finance and management consultancy services in the MENA region. Potentia's clients range from publicly listed companies to startups. Mr. Khan specializes in developing business strategies and raising...

Mark Mariotti is the Chief Executive Officer of FutureManagement, where he leads the management and consulting efforts of a diversified global financial management consulting and holding company. Since 1975, he is involved in information technology, leading to his current position as an acknowledged...

Raj Mehra is the President of Chelsea Advisory Services, a financial risk and forensic accounting advisory firm in Washington DC. He has over 21 years of experience in areas such as banking, subprime mortgages, credit card, auto and student lending. Mr. Mehra is an expert in securitization and structured...

Miguel Mesquita da Cunha is a Consultant in Belgium who specializes in EU policy and regulatory trends that affect business. Previously, Dr. Mesquita da Cunha worked in the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under Lord Carrington, before becoming a member of the 'Group...

Raymond Natter is Partner at Barnett Sivon & Natter in Washington, DC, where he specializes in representing financial institutions before the U.S. Congress and federal regulatory agencies. Previously, Mr. Natter served as Deputy Chief Counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), where...

Rochelle Pleskow, MS, HSA, brings 20 years of healthcare industry experience encompassing the clinical and business perspectives of medicine, focusing on technology, medical real estate, payer relations, physician practice management, hospital systems, ambulatory care, and supply chain logistics. Her...

John Salomone is the Founder and Managing Director of Structured Finance International, LLC, a boutique investment and merchant bank, specializing in all forms of asset and corporate finance, including equipment finance, trade and receivable finance, project finance, vendor finance and real estate finance...