IN-PERSON EVENT | Warsaw, Poland | InterContinental Warsaw
Join Moody’s experts, financial leaders and policymakers to explore key themes shaping the economic trajectory for Poland and the wider region. From dissecting monetary policy and the energy transition to navigating banking trends, this Poland and CEE Summit will cover the critical issues affecting credit.
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David Aldrich is Managing Director of the EMEA Commercial Group, with responsibility for all Moody’s customer relationships in EMEA, across both Developed and Emerging Markets, for Fundamental and Structured Finance.
David is also Managing Director for relationships with Global Sovereign and Multilateral Development Banks, and previously was Head of Emerging-EMEA for Regional Management. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2013, David managed various fixed income, derivatives and securities services businesses at UBS, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and, latterly, BNY Mellon. At BNY Mellon, David was EMEA Business Executive for both Alternative Investment Services and Broker-Dealer Services, and was also Head of Securities Industry Banking, Europe within Global Client Management.
David studied Economics at the University of Kent and is on the MBA Advisory Board at Bayes Business School, City, University of London.
Piotr Janczak serves as the Moody’s Ratings' Country Manager, Poland. Based in Warsaw, he leads the rating agency’s operations in Poland and and coordinates the commercial activities of Moody’s across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Mr. Janczak graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. He has more than 25 years’ experience in equity as well as debt capital markets and loans across CEE. He joined Moody’s Investors Service in 2015 from Erste Group Bank AG, where he had been a director at the Merchant Banking division, based in Prague and covering CEE. Prior to that, Mr. Janczak served as a Director of Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank group in Warsaw.
Colin Ellis is Moody’s first Global Credit Strategist, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy team.
In his current role, Colin provides thought leadership for the rating agency that deepens the understanding of ratings and debt capital markets through rigorous and quantitative research. He leads Moody’s teams working on default and ratings analytics and on global financial analysis, including bank projections and stress testing. Colin is also a member of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which sets the global forecasts that underpin Moody’s universe of ratings.
Colin joined Moody’s in February 2012, initially leading the work of the Macroeconomic Board and authoring the quarterly Global Macro Outlook. He subsequently worked in the Financial Institutions Group, developing quantitative forward-looking analyses. For 8 years he was the Chief Credit Officer for EMEA, leading analysis and coordination of credit and ratings across all rating franchises in the region. He was also the ‘Head of UK’ for MIS, responsible for the running of Moody’s UK operations, from 2019-2022 including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Colin held roles at the Bank of England, Daiwa Capital Markets, the BVCA and at Birmingham University. He has published papers on a range of topics including corporate investment and pricing, credit risk, private equity, data uncertainty, stress testing, financial contagion and monetary policy. Colin holds degrees from York University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Middlesex University. He is a Visiting Professor at Hult International Business School and LSBU, and is also a Fellow of the RSA.
Steffen Dyck is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group.
Based in Frankfurt, he is the lead analyst for a portfolio of European sovereigns and multilateral institutions.
Up until early 2018, Steffen was the lead analyst for number of sovereigns and multilaterals in the Middle East, including Egypt and most of the Gulf Cooperation Council members.
Before relocating to Frankfurt in June 2015, Steffen was based in Moody’s Singapore office, where he covered sovereigns in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in the Middle East.
Prior to joining Moody’s in 2012, Steffen worked for more than six years with Deutsche Bank’s Risk Analysis team in Frankfurt and Singapore, covering macroeconomic and sovereign risk analysis across Asia (ex-Japan), Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also helped manage the bank’s sovereign rating processes.
Swami Venkataraman, CFA, is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. He manages a team of analysts responsible for the development of ESG analytic tools, assessments and the integration of ESG considerations into Moody’s credit ratings and research. He is the primary spokesperson for Moody’s Investors Service on ESG and sustainable finance with regulators and investors. Before moving to the ESG team, Swami was a lead analyst in the North American utilities and infrastructure team, with rating committee chair responsibilities. Prior to Moody’s, he was a project and export finance banker with Standard Chartered bank in Asia.
Swami has broad credit and banking expertise in the power, clean energy and infrastructure sectors over the past 20 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City. Swami is a CFA charter holder, with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.B.A. in finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM),Calcutta.
Sebastien is part of the EMEA Corporate Finance Group based in Poland. His current portfolio focuses on oil and chemical companies. Until 2022, Sebastien was based in London covering European telecommunications and media issuers and prior to that was responsible for a portfolio of mainly European high yield issuers operating in industries including payment solutions, business and consumer services, equipment and transportation rental services, and retail.
Prior to re-joining Moody’s in 2011, Sebastien was an analyst within the credit team at LGT Capital Partners (fund of hedge funds based in Switzerland), where he monitored a portfolio of investments in distressed credit/special situations hedge funds.
Steffen Dyck is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group.
Based in Frankfurt, he is the lead analyst for a portfolio of European sovereigns and multilateral institutions.
Up until early 2018, Steffen was the lead analyst for number of sovereigns and multilaterals in the Middle East, including Egypt and most of the Gulf Cooperation Council members.
Before relocating to Frankfurt in June 2015, Steffen was based in Moody’s Singapore office, where he covered sovereigns in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in the Middle East.
Prior to joining Moody’s in 2012, Steffen worked for more than six years with Deutsche Bank’s Risk Analysis team in Frankfurt and Singapore, covering macroeconomic and sovereign risk analysis across Asia (ex-Japan), Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also helped manage the bank’s sovereign rating processes.
Knut Slatten is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s working in the Moody's EMEA Project and Infrastructure Finance team. He currently covers a portfolio of companies that essentially comprises unregulated European utilities names. In his capacity as lead analyst, Knut has written numerous research publications and has spoken at several conferences. Prior to joining the Infrastructure Finance team, Knut spent 13 years in corporate finance at Moody's has covered a wide range of different industries, including pharmaceuticals.
Moody’s has a leading global Infrastructure Finance franchise, rating some US$2 trillion of corporate and project finance securities, representing more than 90% of all public bonds issued globally in the sector. 180 analytical sector staff cover more than 1,700 infrastructure issuers globally. Moody’s EMEA team of 46 specialists is responsible for rating around 430 issuers. The rating agency covers more than39,000 issuers and transactions. He joined Moody’s in 2007. Prior to joining Moody’s, Knut worked as a credit analyst for Société Générale in Paris, covering oil and gas companies. Knut holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and business Administration.
Pepa Mori is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group. She joined Moody’s in 2008 as part of the Iberian team. Since then she has managed a wide portfolio of issuers, currently covering banks in Italy and Spain. She also has oversight responsibilities for Moody’s banks ratings in Central Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Ms. Mori worked as a credit analyst in a variety of roles. These include credit research at BBVA, rating European sub-sovereigns and public sector companies at Standard & Poor’s; and financial analysis at BBVA’s asset management division. Ms. Mori holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and MSc in Finance from Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Madrid (Spain).
Melina Skouridou is a Vice President- Senior Analyst and lead analyst for EMEA financial institutions, with a focus in Central and South Eastern Europe. In this role, she currently provides ratings analysis for a portfolio of banks in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia. Prior to that she covered Norwegian and Cypriot banks, as well as financial institutions in Egypt, Israel, Romania and Bulgaria. This included large private, public, and state affiliated banks; small and mid-sized commercial lenders, and government-related institutions.
Melina joined Moody’s Limassol office in 2006, and started her Moody’s tenure covering financial institutions operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Prior to joining Moody’s, she worked as analyst for a local investment management firm conducting analysis for various securities and participating in the investment decision process.
Melina has an MSc Financial Mathematics from King’s College, University of London and a BSc Mathematics from the same school. She earned her CFA designation in 2009.
Luis Romaguera is an Assistant Vice President – Analyst in Moody´s Covered Bonds team, and is based in the Madrid office. He has Lead Analyst responsibilities for covered bond programmes issued in Iberia and several markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Luis joined Moody’s from Fitch Ratings, where he held different lead analyst roles across Madrid and London in the European Structured Finance team. Luis holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Greenwich in London.
Sebastien is part of the EMEA Corporate Finance Group based in Poland. His current portfolio focuses on oil and chemical companies. Until 2022, Sebastien was based in London covering European telecommunications and media issuers and prior to that was responsible for a portfolio of mainly European high yield issuers operating in industries including payment solutions, business and consumer services, equipment and transportation rental services, and retail.
Prior to re-joining Moody’s in 2011, Sebastien was an analyst within the credit team at LGT Capital Partners (fund of hedge funds based in Switzerland), where he monitored a portfolio of investments in distressed credit/special situations hedge funds.
Tim Grieveson is Senior Vice President - Global Cyber Security Risk Advisor at Bitsight, helping organizations transform how they measure and manage their cybersecurity performance and risk based on years of experience as a CSO, CISO, CIO, and Senior Technology Leader.
Recognised as one of the UKs Top 30 Security professionals awarded by the CSO30 Grieveson’s career spans more than 25 years of technology leadership and 18 years of information security experience, which has enabled him to become a respected market influencer in both Cyber and Security risk management.
Prior to joining Bitsight, Grieveson was Chief Security Officer & SVP Information Security (CSO) at AVEVA, a global software development company now part of Schneider Electric where he was responsible for Cyber & Physical Security, Crisis Management, Business Resilience, Security Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Travel & Event Security, Risk Management, Governance & Security Strategy globally.
Certified Information Security Managers certification (CISM), he has led strategic programs and managed annual budgets up to £58m, while building and managing globally diverse teams from 20 up to 400 people.
He is an recognised and inspirational security leader and “Chief Story-telling Officer”, frequent keynote speaker, blogger, social media thought leader and trusted expert who has a keen interest in helping global enterprises protect themselves from cyber threats while championing the notion that security should be positioned as an enabler of the business and supporting business outcomes - rather than being another IT cost center.
Like many CIO and CISO peers Grieveson has time in both Corporate CIO / CISO / CSO roles leading IT and Security as well as on the supplier side advising clients globally.
Grieveson was previously the founder and CEO and CISO of CyberCiso Security Limited, an IT & Security consulting company which he formed to support international clients with their information security and technology transformation programmes and has been on several Customer Advisory boards over the years to help shape the security industry capabilities.
Holding multiple security certifications, including CISM, Grieveson is very active in the global information security community and when not out challenging the security status quo, he is a passionate Formula One fan, once lucky enough to be invited onto the grid at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone where he met his racing hero Lewis Hamilton whilst mingling with the celebrities.
Leroy Terrelonge is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in the Moody's Ratings Cyber Risk Group, where he is responsible for creating and executing a cyber-risk analytics and research agenda. He works collaboratively with stakeholders across Moody’s to build cyber datasets and publish timely and relevant research on cyber risk and its impact on financial performance.
Leroy has more than 20 years of risk experience working in government, international education, tech startups and corporates. Prior to joining Moody’s, Leroy led a team of analysts at Flashpoint, a threat intelligence company that researches cyber criminal communities, and previously worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency.
He has been cited in both domestic and international media on cyber risk issues and has presented at cybersecurity conferences around the world. Leroy graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with a Masters in International Business and holds an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations cum laude from Harvard University. He also served as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Piotr Janczak serves as the Moody’s Ratings' Country Manager, Poland. Based in Warsaw, he leads the rating agency’s operations in Poland and and coordinates the commercial activities of Moody’s across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Mr. Janczak graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. He has more than 25 years’ experience in equity as well as debt capital markets and loans across CEE. He joined Moody’s Investors Service in 2015 from Erste Group Bank AG, where he had been a director at the Merchant Banking division, based in Prague and covering CEE. Prior to that, Mr. Janczak served as a Director of Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank group in Warsaw.
David Aldrich is Managing Director of the EMEA Commercial Group, with responsibility for all Moody’s customer relationships in EMEA, across both Developed and Emerging Markets, for Fundamental and Structured Finance.
David is also Managing Director for relationships with Global Sovereign and Multilateral Development Banks, and previously was Head of Emerging-EMEA for Regional Management. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2013, David managed various fixed income, derivatives and securities services businesses at UBS, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and, latterly, BNY Mellon. At BNY Mellon, David was EMEA Business Executive for both Alternative Investment Services and Broker-Dealer Services, and was also Head of Securities Industry Banking, Europe within Global Client Management.
David studied Economics at the University of Kent and is on the MBA Advisory Board at Bayes Business School, City, University of London.
Tim Grieveson is Senior Vice President - Global Cyber Security Risk Advisor at Bitsight, helping organizations transform how they measure and manage their cybersecurity performance and risk based on years of experience as a CSO, CISO, CIO, and Senior Technology Leader.
Recognised as one of the UKs Top 30 Security professionals awarded by the CSO30 Grieveson’s career spans more than 25 years of technology leadership and 18 years of information security experience, which has enabled him to become a respected market influencer in both Cyber and Security risk management.
Prior to joining Bitsight, Grieveson was Chief Security Officer & SVP Information Security (CSO) at AVEVA, a global software development company now part of Schneider Electric where he was responsible for Cyber & Physical Security, Crisis Management, Business Resilience, Security Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Travel & Event Security, Risk Management, Governance & Security Strategy globally.
Certified Information Security Managers certification (CISM), he has led strategic programs and managed annual budgets up to £58m, while building and managing globally diverse teams from 20 up to 400 people.
He is an recognised and inspirational security leader and “Chief Story-telling Officer”, frequent keynote speaker, blogger, social media thought leader and trusted expert who has a keen interest in helping global enterprises protect themselves from cyber threats while championing the notion that security should be positioned as an enabler of the business and supporting business outcomes - rather than being another IT cost center.
Like many CIO and CISO peers Grieveson has time in both Corporate CIO / CISO / CSO roles leading IT and Security as well as on the supplier side advising clients globally.
Grieveson was previously the founder and CEO and CISO of CyberCiso Security Limited, an IT & Security consulting company which he formed to support international clients with their information security and technology transformation programmes and has been on several Customer Advisory boards over the years to help shape the security industry capabilities.
Holding multiple security certifications, including CISM, Grieveson is very active in the global information security community and when not out challenging the security status quo, he is a passionate Formula One fan, once lucky enough to be invited onto the grid at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone where he met his racing hero Lewis Hamilton whilst mingling with the celebrities.
Colin Ellis is Moody’s first Global Credit Strategist, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy team.
In his current role, Colin provides thought leadership for the rating agency that deepens the understanding of ratings and debt capital markets through rigorous and quantitative research. He leads Moody’s teams working on default and ratings analytics and on global financial analysis, including bank projections and stress testing. Colin is also a member of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which sets the global forecasts that underpin Moody’s universe of ratings.
Colin joined Moody’s in February 2012, initially leading the work of the Macroeconomic Board and authoring the quarterly Global Macro Outlook. He subsequently worked in the Financial Institutions Group, developing quantitative forward-looking analyses. For 8 years he was the Chief Credit Officer for EMEA, leading analysis and coordination of credit and ratings across all rating franchises in the region. He was also the ‘Head of UK’ for MIS, responsible for the running of Moody’s UK operations, from 2019-2022 including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Colin held roles at the Bank of England, Daiwa Capital Markets, the BVCA and at Birmingham University. He has published papers on a range of topics including corporate investment and pricing, credit risk, private equity, data uncertainty, stress testing, financial contagion and monetary policy. Colin holds degrees from York University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Middlesex University. He is a Visiting Professor at Hult International Business School and LSBU, and is also a Fellow of the RSA.
Piotr Janczak serves as the Moody’s Ratings' Country Manager, Poland. Based in Warsaw, he leads the rating agency’s operations in Poland and and coordinates the commercial activities of Moody’s across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Mr. Janczak graduated from the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Warsaw School of Economics. He has more than 25 years’ experience in equity as well as debt capital markets and loans across CEE. He joined Moody’s Investors Service in 2015 from Erste Group Bank AG, where he had been a director at the Merchant Banking division, based in Prague and covering CEE. Prior to that, Mr. Janczak served as a Director of Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank group in Warsaw.
Steffen Dyck is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group.
Based in Frankfurt, he is the lead analyst for a portfolio of European sovereigns and multilateral institutions.
Up until early 2018, Steffen was the lead analyst for number of sovereigns and multilaterals in the Middle East, including Egypt and most of the Gulf Cooperation Council members.
Before relocating to Frankfurt in June 2015, Steffen was based in Moody’s Singapore office, where he covered sovereigns in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in the Middle East.
Prior to joining Moody’s in 2012, Steffen worked for more than six years with Deutsche Bank’s Risk Analysis team in Frankfurt and Singapore, covering macroeconomic and sovereign risk analysis across Asia (ex-Japan), Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He also helped manage the bank’s sovereign rating processes.
Swami Venkataraman, CFA, is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. He manages a team of analysts responsible for the development of ESG analytic tools, assessments and the integration of ESG considerations into Moody’s credit ratings and research. He is the primary spokesperson for Moody’s Investors Service on ESG and sustainable finance with regulators and investors. Before moving to the ESG team, Swami was a lead analyst in the North American utilities and infrastructure team, with rating committee chair responsibilities. Prior to Moody’s, he was a project and export finance banker with Standard Chartered bank in Asia.
Swami has broad credit and banking expertise in the power, clean energy and infrastructure sectors over the past 20 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City. Swami is a CFA charter holder, with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.B.A. in finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM),Calcutta.
Pepa Mori is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group. She joined Moody’s in 2008 as part of the Iberian team. Since then she has managed a wide portfolio of issuers, currently covering banks in Italy and Spain. She also has oversight responsibilities for Moody’s banks ratings in Central Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Ms. Mori worked as a credit analyst in a variety of roles. These include credit research at BBVA, rating European sub-sovereigns and public sector companies at Standard & Poor’s; and financial analysis at BBVA’s asset management division. Ms. Mori holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and MSc in Finance from Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF), Madrid (Spain).
Melina Skouridou is a Vice President- Senior Analyst and lead analyst for EMEA financial institutions, with a focus in Central and South Eastern Europe. In this role, she currently provides ratings analysis for a portfolio of banks in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia. Prior to that she covered Norwegian and Cypriot banks, as well as financial institutions in Egypt, Israel, Romania and Bulgaria. This included large private, public, and state affiliated banks; small and mid-sized commercial lenders, and government-related institutions.
Melina joined Moody’s Limassol office in 2006, and started her Moody’s tenure covering financial institutions operating in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Prior to joining Moody’s, she worked as analyst for a local investment management firm conducting analysis for various securities and participating in the investment decision process.
Melina has an MSc Financial Mathematics from King’s College, University of London and a BSc Mathematics from the same school. She earned her CFA designation in 2009.
Sebastien is part of the EMEA Corporate Finance Group based in Poland. His current portfolio focuses on oil and chemical companies. Until 2022, Sebastien was based in London covering European telecommunications and media issuers and prior to that was responsible for a portfolio of mainly European high yield issuers operating in industries including payment solutions, business and consumer services, equipment and transportation rental services, and retail.
Prior to re-joining Moody’s in 2011, Sebastien was an analyst within the credit team at LGT Capital Partners (fund of hedge funds based in Switzerland), where he monitored a portfolio of investments in distressed credit/special situations hedge funds.
Knut Slatten is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s working in the Moody's EMEA Project and Infrastructure Finance team. He currently covers a portfolio of companies that essentially comprises unregulated European utilities names. In his capacity as lead analyst, Knut has written numerous research publications and has spoken at several conferences. Prior to joining the Infrastructure Finance team, Knut spent 13 years in corporate finance at Moody's has covered a wide range of different industries, including pharmaceuticals.
Moody’s has a leading global Infrastructure Finance franchise, rating some US$2 trillion of corporate and project finance securities, representing more than 90% of all public bonds issued globally in the sector. 180 analytical sector staff cover more than 1,700 infrastructure issuers globally. Moody’s EMEA team of 46 specialists is responsible for rating around 430 issuers. The rating agency covers more than39,000 issuers and transactions. He joined Moody’s in 2007. Prior to joining Moody’s, Knut worked as a credit analyst for Société Générale in Paris, covering oil and gas companies. Knut holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree from the Norwegian School of Economics and business Administration.
Luis Romaguera is an Assistant Vice President – Analyst in Moody´s Covered Bonds team, and is based in the Madrid office. He has Lead Analyst responsibilities for covered bond programmes issued in Iberia and several markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Luis joined Moody’s from Fitch Ratings, where he held different lead analyst roles across Madrid and London in the European Structured Finance team. Luis holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Greenwich in London.
Leroy Terrelonge is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in the Moody's Ratings Cyber Risk Group, where he is responsible for creating and executing a cyber-risk analytics and research agenda. He works collaboratively with stakeholders across Moody’s to build cyber datasets and publish timely and relevant research on cyber risk and its impact on financial performance.
Leroy has more than 20 years of risk experience working in government, international education, tech startups and corporates. Prior to joining Moody’s, Leroy led a team of analysts at Flashpoint, a threat intelligence company that researches cyber criminal communities, and previously worked as an analyst at the National Security Agency.
He has been cited in both domestic and international media on cyber risk issues and has presented at cybersecurity conferences around the world. Leroy graduated from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with a Masters in International Business and holds an A.B. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations cum laude from Harvard University. He also served as a Princeton-in-Asia fellow in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
