Jim Hempstead is a Managing Director in Moody’s Global Project & Infrastructure Finance Group, where he heads both the North American Regulated Utility & Power Team and the North American Public Infrastructure Team.

Jim acts as a rating chair across all segments of Moody’s Global Infrastructure & Project Finance franchise, and is a member of both the firm’s Infrastructure Finance Franchise Committee and Global Infrastructure Focus Editorial Board.

 Jim also manages the Moody’s Cyber Risk Team, which looks to incorporate cyber security risk into global credit analyses.

Jim helped manage the firm’s global Environmental, Social and Governance efforts between 2017 – 2020.

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2002, Jim was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch &Co., working in the Global Energy & Power Group, providing financial and advisory services to electric, natural gas distribution, interstate pipeline, energy merchant, water and energy technology companies. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Jim worked with Salomon Smith Barney Corporate Finance, working in their Global Energy &Power Group.

Jim graduated with a B.S.B.A. from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from Fordham University. From 2011 - 2013, Jim served as the Director of Emergency Management for his hometown in New Jersey, and is a registered EMT for his local, volunteer first aid squad. Jim is a member of the Wall Street Utility Group and served as a Trustee with the Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts (SURFA) between 2012 -2020. He served on the Advisory Council for the Electric Power Research Institute(EPRI) from 2014-2019.

John Lucas joined GIP in 2025 and is based in New York. He is a Managing Director focused on origination, structuring, execution, monitoring and exit strategy for investments in the digital infrastructure sector.

Prior to joining GIP, Mr. Lucas was the Head of the US Investment team for Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners and CEO of their data center platform Rowan Digital Infrastructure. His prior experience also includes time at META and Amazon Web Services (AWS) most recently as Head of Renewable and Energy Procurement for AWS.

Mr. Lucas holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Miami University.

John is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team covering a diverse portfolio of project financings, public private partnerships (PPPs), and municipal infrastructure issuers in the transportation, energy and social infrastructure sectors. John chairs Moody’s Global PPP Task Force and is the sector lead for US toll roads, PPPs and generic project financings. John authors research across multiple sectors and annually leads several new rating assignments for new PPPs and project financings in the US and Canada. John was selected as one of the Bond Buyer’s 2017 Rising Stars. Before joining the Infrastructure and Project Finance Team in 2010, John spent two and a half years as a lead analyst for local governments and enterprises in the Eastern Regional Local Government Ratings Team where he was the lead for municipal issuers in Pennsylvania and New York while also covering New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida. Prior to joining Moody’s, John worked as a risk management analyst, a property and casualty insurance account manager, and a health care claims auditor. John is a founding member and was the first co-chair of Moody’s NY Multicultural Employee Resource Group and is a founding steering committee member of Moody’s NY LGBTA Employee Resource Group. John earned his BA degree in Health Care Economics and Policy from Stanford University and his MPA in Health Care Public Finance from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Paul is responsible for CoreWeave’s broader capital formation strategies including structured finance and strategic partnerships with key customers and supply chain vendors. Paul has more than 10 years of private equity and private credit investing experience with a track record of structuring leveraged buyouts, direct lending, joint ventures and project finance. Prior to CoreWeave, Paul was an investor within Blackstone’s Tactical Opportunities group specializing in digital infrastructure.

Paul received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Indiana University.

Quynh Tran is Deputy Head of Structured Finance, Americas at SMBC, with over 20 years of experience in the infrastructure sector, covering digital infrastructure, transportation, airports, water, power and social infrastructure. Quynh focuses on expanding SMBC’s infrastructure platform through serving the financing needs of sponsors and developers for investments in North American assets.

Quynh has led the build out of SMBC’s coverage of the digital infrastructure sector, with a focus on developing the liquidity pool for this asset class.  SMBC is a leading bank in the sector, structuring transactions for greenfield development, portfolio financing, securitizations, JV financing and acquisition financing across product platforms.

Prior to SMBC, Quynh was an investment banker at Robertson Stephens where she specialized in the “e-tail” and “e-finance” sectors, providing M&A advisory, equity underwriting and equity private placements.

Quynh earned a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

As Head of Global Capital Markets at Vantage Data Centers, Rich Cosgray leads the company’s global strategy for capital raising, including debt financing and financial risk management. With more than 16 years of capital markets experience, Cosgray is a seasoned leveraged finance banker with a track record of originating, structuring and advising on financing transactions such as buy-side advisory, acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, development financings, recapitalizations and equity placements.

Earlier in his career, Cosgray served in a variety of roles at Truist Securities, most recently as managing director and head of TMT leveraged finance. With a specialization in digital infrastructure financings across data centers, fiber networks, broadband providers and towers, he led a dedicated team of capital markets professionals focused on providing creative financing solutions for corporate and financial sponsor clients in the technology, media and telecom sectors. During his tenure at Truist, he executed more than $100 billion in debt financings.

Cosgray received Bachelor of Science degrees in finance and accounting from Miami University (Ohio) and participated in the Richard T. Farmer International Business Program in Luxembourg.

Tracy Rice is a VP – Senior Credit Officer, US Corporate ABS New Ratings in Moody's Ratings. Tracy joined Moody’s in 2005, and is currently part of a team that assigns new ratings to securities backed by esoteric assets. She is a committee chairperson and covers a variety of asset classes including solar, PACE, aircraft, container, whole business, utility cost recovery and more. She has written numerous reports covering these sectors. Tracy continues to be actively involved in methodology development and many analytical projects. Previously, Tracy covered various other ABS sectors, including student loans and equipment leases and loans. She also authored Moody’s approaches to rating private (non-guaranteed) student loan securitizations. Prior to Moody’s, Tracy occupied positions at Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase in risk and decision management. Tracy holds a M.S. in Statistics and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Sarah is a Senior Vice President in the Capital Solutions Group at Goldman Sachs. Sarah works in structured finance, with a focus on digital infrastructure ABS and the AI financing ecosystem. 

Sarah joined Goldman Sachs from Morgan Stanley in 2021, where she worked for 12 years both in London and New York. Sarah is a CFA charterholder.

Sean Cray is a Vice President - Senior Analyst on the Technology, Media & Technology team within the US Corporate Finance Group. Sean covers a diverse portfolio of issuers across the software, digital infrastructure, and telecom sectors. He is also part of Moody’s North America data centers working group. Prior to joining the TMT team in 2024, Sean covered investment grade and speculative grade issuers throughout the business and consumer services, gaming, and consumer products industries. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2008, Sean worked as a financial analyst at AIG.

Sean holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Rutgers University.

Ryan Wobbrock is a Vice President - Senior Credit Officer in the Global Infrastructure Finance Group at Moody’s Investors Service. His responsibilities include conducting industry research and supporting the credit analysis of various U.S. electric utility companies. Prior to joining the Utilities Group as a Senior Associate in December 2004, Ryan worked at Moody’s in the Public Finance Group and spent time in Investment Accounting at Ambac Financial Group. Ryan graduated as an Honors Program Participant and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in finance and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Colorado State University.

As CFO AES Clean Energy, James is integral to our efforts to accelerate a 100% carbon free grid.  His scope includes developing strategic plans to profitability deliver innovative products to our customers and delivering the financial results of the organization. James leads a broad range of activities, including corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, establishing a risk management framework, evaluating and financing new investments, evolving our capital structure and providing a compensation framework for our people.  His previous experience at AES, including leading the M&A transactions, capital raising activities, decision analytics and financial operations across numerous parts of our portfolio has positioned him to manage the high growth AES Clean Energy business.

Prior to joining AES in 2007, James provided advisory services to a variety of clients at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a global audit, tax and advisory firm.  

James holds a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and earned an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the District of Columbia.

Lachlan Farr is a Vice President in the Energy and Infrastructure vertical of MUFG’s market-leading Project Finance group, where he focuses on structuring and arranging bank and bond financings along with financial advisory assignments for digital infrastructure and energy assets.

Lachlan has structured and led over $45 billion in data center financings in the last 18 months, mostly as lead left underwriter. Prior to joining MUFG in 2019, Lachlan worked at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in corporate advisory, debt capital markets, and loan syndications.

Lachlan holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of Actuarial Science from Bond University in Australia.