Helen Rider
General Manager - Global Sales
Moody's Analytics
Helen Rider is General Manager, Head of Sales for Europe & Africa at Moody’s Analytics, leading sales teams representing MA products and services and customer relationships across the region.
Helen is a proven leader with over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, building high-performing teams and developing commercial strategies to drive growth and help customers make better business decisions.
Until February 2017, Helen was Managing Director, Head of Sales for Moody’s Analytics Enterprise Risk Solutions, with a focus on expanding the MA customer footprint across the EMEA region. Since joining Moody’s Investors Service in 1999, Helen has held a number of key sales and sales leadership positions across a wide range of teams. She has been instrumental to the EMEA region’s impressive growth story.
Since 2007, Helen has served as a voluntary board member for The Lily Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to fighting mitochondrial disease by helping families and funding medical research for treatments and to ultimately find a cure.
Helen holds a BA Hons in Modern Languages from The University of Sheffield. She speaks French, German, and conversational Spanish.