Ms. Parekh is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners and Co-Head of North American Core Senior Lending.  Prior to joining HPS in 2020, Ms. Parekh spent over twelve years as a Partner and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group.  During her tenure at The Carlyle Group, Ms. Parekh was a founding member of the Direct Lending platform, served as Head of Origination for Illiquid Credit, and was a member of the Investment Committee for the Direct Lending business. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group in 2007, Ms. Parekh was an Investment Banking Associate at JPMorgan where she was responsible for originating, structuring and executing high yield bond and leveraged loan transactions. Ms. Parekh holds a BS in Finance and Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

John Zito is Co-President of Apollo Asset Management, co-leading all investing activity and day-to-day management of the Firm’s asset management business. John is also the Head of Credit and a member of Apollo’s Leadership Team.

Prior to joining Apollo in 2012, John served as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Brencourt Advisors and previously spent five years as a Portfolio Manager at Veritas Fund Group. John is a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder and he graduated cum laude from Amherst College with an AB in economics.

Brad Colman is a Senior Managing Director, the Global Head of Healthcare investing and Global Head of Sponsor Coverage for Private Credit Strategies in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in New York. Mr. Colman has been with Blackstone since 2012, focusing on originating, analyzing, executing and monitoring credit investments.

Before joining Blackstone in 2012, Mr. Colman worked as a Director in the Strategic Investments group at PartnerRe, a Senior Associate in the sponsor finance team at American Capital, and an Analyst in Merrill Lynch’s investment banking group.

Mr. Colman graduated magna cum laude from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business with a BS in Finance, Accounting, and Operations.

Daniel Pietrzak (New York) joined KKR in 2016 and is a Partner and serves as the Global Head of Private Credit and a portfolio manager for KKR’s private credit funds and portfolios. Mr. Pietrzak is Chief Investment Officer of the KKR / FS Investments joint venture and Co-President and Chief Investment Officer for FS KKR Capital Corp. (FSK), which trades on the NYSE. He also serves of the board of directors of FSK and several KKR Credit portfolio companies, including Oodle Car Finance, Pepper and Toorak Capital Partners. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Pietrzak was a managing director and the co-head of Deutsche Bank’s structured finance business across the Americas and Europe. Previously, Mr. Pietrzak held various roles in the credit businesses of Societe Generale and CIBC World Markets. Mr. Pietrzak started his career at Price Waterhouse in New York. Mr. Pietrzak holds an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University. Mr. Pietrzak serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Lehigh University College of Business, is a member of the Advisory Board of the Scholars of Finance and serves on the Board of Directors of First Tee – Metropolitan New York.

Allan Levine is Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Global Atlantic.

Global Atlantic is a U.S. insurance company focused on meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions. As of June 30, 2024, Global Atlantic has more than $180 billion of assets under management, more than 1,660 employees, and serves millions of American policyholders.

Over nearly two decades, his vision and strategic direction have influenced all phases of Global Atlantic’s progress since its founding as the Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group (2004), separation from Goldman Sachs as an independent company (2013), and sale as a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR). His leadership has been instrumental in shaping Global Atlantic’s culture and core values, focusing on integrity, teamwork, and the importance of building long-term client relationships.

Prior to Global Atlantic, Allan was Co-Head of Firmwide Strategy at Goldman Sachs, where he became a Partner in 2006. Allan serves on the Board of the American Council of Life Insurers, Essent Group Ltd (NYSE: ESNT), and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the Geneva Association, an international think tank of insurance and reinsurance CEOs. Allan co-founded the Global Atlantic Foundation, a donor-advised fund, to provide opportunities to small businesses tackling ongoing dynamic community needs. He is also a member of several organizations focused on educational opportunities, including the Advisory Board for the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School and the Board of the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club. Allan was previously a Trustee of the Hun School of Princeton. Allan earned a B.S. from Miami University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Ms. Remeza is the head of Insurance Strategies Americas and a member of the Insurance Investment Solutions team at PineBridge Investments. She is responsible for creating regulatory and rating agency friendly solutions and structuring investment vehicles for a broad range of insurance clients. She also publishes thought leadership research. She has extensive experience across insurance industry, asset management, rating agency, and investment banking. Prior to joining PineBridge, she worked at AIG, Moody’s, CSFB, and Fosun Group. Ms. Remeza holds a PhD from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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).

Mark Zandi is chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, where he directs economic research. Moody’s Analytics, a subsidiary of Moody’s Corp., is a leading provider of economic research, data and analytical tools. Dr. Zandi cofounded Economy.com, which Moody’s purchased in 2005.

Dr. Zandi is on the board of directors of MGIC, the nation’s largest private mortgage insurance company, is the lead director of PolicyMap, a data visualization and analytics company used by policymakers and commercial businesses, and is a director of the Coleridge Initiative, a nonprofit that facilitates the exchange of data across governments. 

He is a trusted adviser to policymakers and an influential source of economic analysis for businesses, journalists and the public. Dr. Zandi frequently testifies before Congress and conducts regular briefings on the economy for corporate boards, trade associations and policymakers at all levels. 

Dr. Zandi is the author of Paying the Price: Ending the Great Recession and Beginning a New American Century, which assesses the monetary and fiscal policy response to the Great Recession. His other book, Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis, is described by The New York Times as the “clearest guide” to the financial crisis. Dr. Zandi is host of the Inside Economics podcast. 

Dr. Zandi earned his BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania.