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).

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.

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.

Jeb Bentley is vice president and co-chief investment officer (CIO) of Northwestern Mutual. In this role, he oversees the institutional investment teams responsible for the company's more than $316 billion1 general account portfolio, which contributes significantly to the company’s exceptional financial strength and industry-leading product value.

After joining Northwestern Mutual in 2004, Bentley held several leadership and investment roles for the company’s general account, including leading the Investment Strategy team responsible for asset allocation and leading the Public Investments team managing investment-grade and high-yield fixed income assets. In 2022, he moved to the company’s retail investments side to head the wealth management business, which today has over $330 billion in client assets. He also served as president and CEO of Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company (NMWMC).

Prior to Northwestern Mutual, Bentley held investment roles at Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners and was an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers in New York. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Williams College and an M.B.A. in finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) charterholder.

In his local Milwaukee community, Bentley is a board member at Next Door Foundation, which provides early childhood education and related services to families, and a member of the Advisory Board for SecureFutures, a nonprofit leader in teen financial literacy.

Bentley lives in Whitefish Bay with his wife Maija and their four children. They enjoy traveling, ice hockey, skiing and reading.