Alexandra Cimmiyotti is a Vice President/Senior Credit Officer for the San Francisco Local Governments Ratings Team, and primarily covers California cities, counties, enterprise systems, and school districts. Prior to joining the San Francisco Team, she was an Assistant Vice President for the New York Local Governments Ratings Team. Alexandra serves as a rating committee chair on credits nationally for local governments and has a dedicated role of training and mentoring analysts on her team.

Alexandra is an executive council board member of the Women in Public Finance Northern California Chapter and served on the Board of California Society of Municipal Analysts for seven years.

Prior to joining Moody's, Alexandra held Vice President positions at Prager and Company, as well as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, and was an Assistant Director for undergraduate admissions at Columbia University.

Alexandra holds a MA from Teachers College Columbia University and a BA from San Diego State University.

Helen Cregger is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s San Francisco office. She covers local government credits primarily in California including cities, counties, enterprise systems, and school districts. Helen also rates charter schools nationally and serves as the lead analyst for charter schools primarily in Colorado, Arizona and California. She was a co-author of Moody’s charter school methodology. In addition to her analytical work, Helen heads up Moody’s municipal utility task force, supporting research and internal training for these credits.

Prior to rejoining Moody’s, Helen was an investment banker for Piper Jaffray & Co.’s and among other issuers worked with the State of Colorado on its BEST K12 capital construction program. Prior to her initial tenure at Moody’s, Helen was an analyst for the US General Accountability Office in the International Trade, Finance and Competitiveness Division. Helen holds an MPA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a BA in Latin American Studies from Northwestern University.

Amanda Richter is on the Higher Education team located in San Francisco and covers public and private higher education institutions as well as nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as Co-chair of the Moody’s SF Women’s BRG. 

Prior to joining Moody’s, Amanda was Head of Fixed Income Credit Research at First Republic where she led a team managing credit risk of $40 billion in fixed income assets. She additionally worked as a desk analyst at Deutsche Bank and she started her career at Lehman Brothers working in institutional equity sales. She holds a MPA in Public Finance from NYU Wager and a BBA from the University of Portland, Oregon.  She is also a returned Peace Corps Volunteer.

Matthew Butler is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer on the US State Ratings Team. He is lead analyst for several states, including California and Illinois. He spent over seven years as a local government credit analyst and was previously lead analyst for the cities of Chicago and Detroit as well as others throughout the Midwest. 

Prior to joining Moody’s, Matthew was a budget analyst with the State of Michigan and an analyst with the Government Accountability Office in both Washington, DC and Chicago. Matthew holds an MPP degree from the University of Massachusetts and an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University

Moses Kopmar covers credits for the US airports, seaports, social infrastructure, and toll roads, as well as related project finance issuers. Prior to joining the Project and Infrastructure Finance Team, Moses was on the Public Finance Local Governments Ratings Team covering cities, counties, municipal utilities, schools, special districts, and related issuers throughout the US.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Moses worked in economic development in the San Francisco Bay Area where he engaged in economic development, government affairs and policy research on behalf of private and public sector members. Moses holds an MPA in Public Finance from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a BA in English from Stanford University.

Brad is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer based out of Moody’s San Francisco public finance office. As a senior member of the Healthcare ratings team, Brad covers a variety of institutions throughout the country, focusing geographically on the western United States. His areas of expertise include derivative products, variable rate financings, liquidity issues, and debt securitization structures. Brad joined Moody’s in 2006.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Brad worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co. serving not-for-profit healthcare clients, universities, and other notfor-profit organizations. Prior to working on Wall Street, Brad worked in the field of international economic development in South East Asia. 

Brad holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, with majors in finance and not-forprofit management, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.