Jeanine Arnold oversees the Moody's EMEA Leveraged Finance franchise and co-ordinates Leveraged Finance globally. She is part of the Corporate Finance Group (CFG) and Moody's Global Private Credit team with responsibility for EMEA corporates based in London.

Jeanine's primary responsibility is for ratings consistency and accuracy of leveraged finance issuer ratings across EMEA and in collaboration with other regions. She also has responsibility for leveraged finance research and thought leadership as well as investor, banking and private equity outreach. She heads up the Global Leveraged Finance Data and Analytics strategy, which underpins Moody’s research and outreach initiatives.

Prior to Jeanine's current role, she led the Paris-based CFG team, which was responsible for a wide range of credits across the healthcare, retail, transportation, IT, gaming and business and consumer services industries.

During her time at Moody’s Jeanine has been a lead analyst for European Airlines and Aerospace and Defense companies as well as investment holding companies, manufacturing and semiconductor companies.

Prior to joining Moody’s Jeanine was a Director at Fitch Ratings based in London, specializing in the rating of transportation names across Europe, the CIS and Middle East, including Rail, Airlines, Shipping and Ports. Prior to this, she worked in the credit risk management and investment banking teams of Bank of America Merrill Lynch as well as RBS, where she managed credit finance transactions for European Industrials within the Automotive, Chemical and Manufacturing sectors.

Jeanine qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2006 from Ernst and Young in London and has a Joint Honors degree in French and German from the University of Nottingham.

Rory is currently responsible for Moody’s Funds & Asset Management ratings practice in the Americas. This includes ratings on over 60 asset managers and 400 investment funds across 5 countries. He joined Moody’s Global Managed Investments Group in1998, working on analysis of investment funds. Rory regularly speaks at industry conferences on trends and developments in the asset management sector. He holds a BA in Government from Georgetown University

Karen Ramallo heads the U.S. Corporate ABS team in the Structured Finance Group at Moody’s Investors Service. The U.S. Corporate ABS team assigns new ratings to commercial and esoteric ABS transactions, covering over twenty sectors including

equipment, wireless towers, fleet leasing, rental car, stranded utilities, tax liens, and aircraft lease, among others.

Previously, Karen acted as a Rating Committee Chair and senior lead analyst for the U.S. Commercial Real Estate Finance group, where she covered conduit and large loan transactions. She also previously held lead analyst positions within the Latin America

ABS and the U.S. RMBS New Ratings teams.

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2005, Karen worked at NorthFork Bank Corp. (acquired by Capital One Financial) as a credit risk officer, where she prepared risk analytics for senior management and determined the quarterly Allowance for Loan Loss Reserves

for the bank’s owned residential mortgage and small commercial loan portfolios.

Karen holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. She is natively fluent in English and Spanish and conversant in French and Portuguese

Natasha Kaden is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Corporation’s Government, Public and Regulatory Affairs Group where she is responsible for Moody’s U.S. regulatory policy engagements and initiatives, including in the areas of private credit and insurance. Prior to joining Moody’s, Natasha was a Senior Special Counsel in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of International Affairs (OIA), where she facilitated international cooperation on a variety of cross-border supervisory issues. Natasha joined OIA from the SEC’s Office of Credit Ratings where she served as a Branch Chief overseeing examinations of SEC-registered credit rating agencies. Previously, Natasha worked in the capital markets and corporate finance group of Hogan Lovells, where she represented companies in initial public offerings, follow on equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.

Marc Pinto is the Global Head of Private Credit. In this role, he coordinates across the financial institutions, corporate, structured, and public and infrastructure finance rating groups to provide thought leadership, and ratings oversight in growth areas of the private credit market, including fund finance, private asset-backed securities, and privately placed investment-grade corporate assets. For over a decade, Marc has held a series of leadership roles of increasing scope and responsibility at Moody’s, including Global Co-Head of Insurance and Global Head of Funds & Asset Management.

Marc is deeply committed to educational and empowerment initiatives, acting as an Executive Sponsor for Moody's CFA and Global Administrative Professionals Networks, a Mentor Advisor in the Women’s Business Resource Group, and a frequent participant in career development seminars.

Marc’s extensive career in the fixed income credit markets, in New York and London, has included leadership roles at sell-side and buy-side firms including Merrill Lynch, Keefe Bruyette & Woods, and Susquehanna International. At Merrill Lynch, Marc was also a top-ranked financial institutions analyst.

Marc is a Chartered Financial Analyst and an alumnus of Columbia Business School and Trinity College (Connecticut).

Christina Padgett leads the Leveraged Finance Research and Analytics Team and Private Credit Research. Her remit includes facilitating in-depth, cross-disciplinary research on credit trends in the US leveraged finance, US private equity and global private markets. Ms. Padgett brings multi-cycle expertise in the credit markets to her role, which is informed by frequent meetings with issuers, investors, regulators, alternative asset managers, and bankers. She presents often at industry conferences and is regularly quoted in the financial media.

Before joining Moody’s, Ms. Padgett was an M&A investment banker at JPMorgan Chase. At the bank, she also worked in Europe Corporate Finance and Credit Audit following the completion of the bank’s credit training program.

Ms. Padgett received a M.A. in International Political Economy from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, and a B.A. in History from William Smith College.