Laura Barrientos is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer in the Methodology Development Group (MDG) at Moody’s Ratings. During her seven years in MDG, Laura has led a variety of methodology development projects, including the Request for Comment on Moody’s approach to rating banks published in April 2025.

Previously, she was a lead analyst covering project finance and infrastructure, and regional and local governments, among other sectors.

Prior roles include working as a senior consultant at the US Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance.

Laura holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin.

Toby Shea is a Vice President in the Moody’s Global Project & Infrastructure Finance Group. He is responsible for a portfolio of electric and gas utilities.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Toby worked for more than 15 years in the field of credit risk relating to energy and commodities, including Senior Credit Manager at Noble Group, Head of Credit and Portfolio Analytics at RBS Sempra and Director at Standard & Poor’s.

Toby graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and M.A. in International Relations from Tufts University’s Fletcher School.

Jeffrey Cassella is a Vice President in Moody’s Global Infrastructure Finance Group, joining the Utilities team at the beginning of 2013. He Is responsible for a portfolio consisting of electric and gas utilities. Prior to joining the Utilities Group, Jeff worked in the Corporate Finance Group’s Credit Policy department as well as the Technology, Media and Telecommunications team covering transaction processors and other IT services companies. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2006, Jeff was a manager in PriceWaterhouseCooperstrans action services group. In that capacity he managed multidisciplinary teams that conducted financial due diligence on mergers & acquisitions and financial statement analysis for clients across a number of different industry sectors. Jeff holds a B.S. in Accounting from The College of New Jersey and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant.

Julie Meyer covers a diverse portfolio of infrastructure issuers in public power and transportation, including airports, toll roads, and seaports as well as project finance issuers.

Prior to joining Global Project and Infrastructure Finance, Julie worked on the Moody's Local Government team covering cities, counties, school districts, municipal utilities, and special districts. Julie has a BA in Political Science from Washington State University and an M PA from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Nana Hamilton is a Vice President in Moody’s Global Project &Infrastructure Finance Group. She is responsible for a portfolio of US-based regulated electric and gas utilities. Prior to joining Moody’s in August 2017, Nana was a Vice President in the Power &Utilities investment banking group at J.P. Morgan where she provided financial and advisory services to electric and natural gas distribution companies. Nana holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College.

Natividad (Nati) Martel serves as a Vice President in the Global Infrastructure Finance Group. She currently is responsible for a portfolio consisting of utilities as well as wholesale power generators in Latin America and the U.S. Nati joined Moody’s in 2004.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Nati worked for five years as a credit analyst in the Project Finance/Corporate Finance area at Landesbank HessenThuringen, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nati was awarded a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in business with a concentration in finance by the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. She was also awarded an advanced degree in banking studies by the Business School of Finance and Management in Frankfurt. She received her CFA designation in 2008.

Gavin MacFarlane is a Vice President in Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Group where he covers a diverse portfolio of pipelines, regulated gas and electric utilities and power companies. Some of the more topical names in the portfolio include Enbridge, TransCanada Pipelines and TransAlta. Gavin joined the Moody’s team in September of 2013.

Prior to joining Moody’s Gavin was an Associate Director at Standard and Poor’s in Toronto where he was the primary analyst on companies in the Canadian pipeline, utilities and power sectors.

Gavin holds an MBA from the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Queen’s University.

Gayle Podurgiel is a Vice President in Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance team based in New York. Gayle serves as lead credit rating analyst for a portfolio of debt issuers including public power utilities, community choice aggregators and joint action agencies. She also covers project issuers including fossil and renewable power generation plants, liquified natural gas projects and other commodity-linked generic project finance debt financings. 

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2018, Gayle was a vice president in equity research at Credit Suisse covering metals & mining stocks. She also held research roles at Standard and Poor’s covering natural resources corporate debt and at T. Rowe Price supporting coverage of investment grade utility and pipeline bonds. Gayle earned her MBA and Finance MS at the University of Maryland and her BBA at James Madison University in Virginia. She is a CFA charter holder.

Yulia Rakityanskaya is an AVP in Moody’s Global Project & Infrastructure Finance Group based in Toronto. She is responsible for a portfolio of regulated electric and gas utilities and interstate natural gas pipelines in Canada, and the U.S. Yulia joined Moody’s as an Associate Analyst in the Corporate Finance Group in 2013.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Yulia was an audit supervisor at KPMG where she managed teams that conducted audit for clients across telecommunication and mining industries. Yulia holds a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Finance University, Moscow.

Sanjeeva Senanayake is a Vice President in the Global Project & Infrastructure Finance Group where he covers power generation projects, waste related renewable energy projects and public power utilities.

Sanjeeva has over two decades of energy and infrastructure sector experience covering power generation projects including renewables, investor-owned utilities, social and transportation infrastructure including public power partnerships (P3), oil & natural gas sector, and experience with emerging new energy sectors including hydrogen and fuel cells. Sanjeeva has experience in structuring, arranging and executing debt financing for energy and infrastructure projects, and has previously held positions at CIBC World Markets, Credit Suisse, HSH Nordbank, Wellford Capital Markets and at JPMorgan Chase, where he completed his formal credit-training.

Sanjeeva holds a MS in Engineering & Applied Geophysics from Columbia University and a BS in Physics from the University of the South (Sewanee).