Join us for our annual webinar where Moody's analysts will discuss the 2025 North America & EMEA Corporate Finance Outlook.
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SpeakersEdmond DeForest Senior Vice President, Business & Consumer Services, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings
Martin Kohlhase Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings
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Ed DeForest is a Senior Vice President on the Technology and Services team. Ed covers a portfolio of services and software companies in a range of verticals.
Ed joined Moody’s in February, 2012 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he shared responsibility for leading a team of examiners reviewing the wholesale loan portfolios of the 10 largest New York-based banks. Prior to his work at the Fed, Ed was a managing director with D.B. Zwirn, where he was the global head of asset management. While there, Ed managed the credit and illiquid risk department, with a portfolio of about $5 billion of assets under management. Ed also worked for 19 years at JPMorgan Chase, in both the credit and lending and the investment banking departments, covering a range of companies in the Technology, Telecommunications, Cable TV, Publishing and Broadcasting sectors. Ed has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. is from Carnegie Mellon University
| Martin has more than 20 years capital markets experience as a credit and equity analyst in Europe and the Middle East. Based in Frankfurt, he is currently lead analyst for a portfolio of chemical companies and is the EMEA sector coordinator. His assignments at Moody’s include a secondment in Dubai from 2008 till 2015 where he covered corporates and government-related issuers from the Middle East, Turkey and Africa spanning many sectors including oil and gas, investment holding companies, real estate, utilities and telecoms. Martin was content lead for Moody’s conferences in the CEE region from 2015-2020. Since joining Moody’s in 2004 he has been involved in rating assignments for investment grade and high yield credits as well as Islamic Finance transactions. Among his primary coverage in Europe were the manufacturing, packaging, paper and forest products sectors. Martin holds a diploma in economics with a concentration in finance and econometrics & statistics from the University of Konstanz, Germany. |