Pete Speer is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Oil and Gas Team, covering a portfolio of investment grade and high yield energy companies. His portfolio includes integrated oil, exploration and production, drilling, oilfield services and midstream companies. He joined Moody’s in 2003 in the Accounting Specialists Group, working alongside energy rating analysts and helping them to assess the reliability and quality of issuers’ financial reporting and controls. Before joining Moody’s, Pete was a senior manager in the national office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. For two years he consulted with audit engagement teams on a variety of complex financial accounting and reporting issues. Prior to his assignment in the national office, Pete was resident in the Houston office and served as the audit engagement senior manager for several multi-national energy industry clients. Pete is a Certified Public Accountant and is licensed in Texas and Michigan. Pete graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Elena Nadtotchi is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Energy Team and a lead analyst on a portfolio of investment-grade and high-yield energy companies. Elena is an experienced credit professional with sound risk judgement, underpinned by 20+ years of investment and rating portfolio management. She is also an energy industry expert with extensive experience in other key commodities markets. Elena is Moody’s coordinator for oil and gas price assumptions and a leading contributor to credit and industry-focused research and an expert presenter at various investor and industry forums and media.

Before moving to New York in 2017, Elena was based in London. She rotated coverage of various commodity sectors, including North American energy companies and energy infrastructure (since 2017), EMEA Integrated Oil and Gas and Mining; and EMEA chemical, nutrition and nuclear energy services industries. She also helped to initiate rating coverage in industrial and commodity sectors as Moody’s expanded in the emerging markets, including through support of acquisitions by Moody’s. Elena is a co-author of Moody's Integrated Oil and Gas rating methodology and was a coauthor of earlier Chemicals and Metals and Mining industry methodologies in previous years.

Before joining Moody’s, Elena worked as a project finance and corporate banker for various international banks. She started her career at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, where she originated financing for the roll out of telecom infrastructure in Central Europe, as well as infrastructure projects in EMEA and Central Asia. Elena’s first degree is in Applied Mathematics, and she also holds MA degree in Economics and MSc degree in Investment Management.

Sajjad Alam is an Vice President-Senior Credit Officer within Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in New York covering a portfolio of mostly high-yield E&P, midstream, drilling and oilfield services companies. Sajjad joined Moody’s in 2006 and spent the first two years analyzing companies in the North American metals and mining industry and the paper and forest product industry as a support analyst. Prior to joining Moody’s, Sajjad was a Senior Manager at Scotiabank’s Global Risk Management Group in Toronto responsible for revamping the bank’s risk assessment framework. Previous to that, he held various analytical and management reporting positions at Deutsche Bank, The Bank of New York and Morgan Stanley. Sajjad has an MBA in Finance from York University in Toronto, and a B.S. in Accounting and Economics from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is also a CFA charter holder and a Certified Public Accountant. 

Amol Joshi joined the Oil and Gas Team at Moody’s in early 2014. He is the lead analyst on a portfolio of high yield and investment grade companies focused on exploration and production, refining and marketing, midstream and oilfield services.

Amol brings 20 years of banking, buy-side and corporate finance experience to Moody’s having begun in the energy investment banking group at Jefferies & Company in Houston, TX. He has also worked in the energy groups at Banc of America Securities and Macquarie Group, as well as in asset management at Henry Kaufman & Company, investing in corporate securities and commodities.

Amol holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Bombay and a graduate degree in Finance from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Amol is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the CFA Institute.

James Wilkins is a lead analyst at Moody’s Investors Service responsible for a portfolio of oil and gas companies, including exploration and production (E&P) companies, mid-stream energy companies, and oilfield service companies.

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2005, James worked at Merrill Lynch as an analyst and has previously worked in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industries in various financial and manufacturing positions.

James holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Janko Lukac is a VP - Lead Analyst within Moody’s Ratings Corporate Finance Group (CFG), based in Frankfurt. He covers a portfolio of investment grade and high yield issuers along the Oil & Gas and other commodity’s value chains in EMEA and is closely involved in the development and roll out of Moody’s ESG Credit Impact Scores for Moody’s CFG franchise.

He has more than 15 years of experience in corporate and project finance and joined Moody’s in 2013. Janko used to cover issuers across different industrial sectors and also was a lead analyst in Moody’s Sub Sovereign Group responsible for local governments in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously he worked at Commerzbank in DCM, Crédit Agricole CIB in leverage finance and in KfW IPEX’s project finance department focussing on thermal and renewable energy.

He earned a banking degree from the German Chamber of Commerce (IHK) before graduating from University of Applied Science Mainz with a bachelor in business administration. Additionally, he did a Master in international relations at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. He speaks fluently German (native), English, Spanish and Portuguese.