Daisuke Kitazawa VP-Senior Analyst, Structured Finance Moody's Ratings

Daisuke Kitazawa is a Vice President - Senior Analyst for US Structure Finance that includes CLOs and other structured credit products at Moody’s Ratings. He is also involved in various research rerated to CLOs and investor outreach activities related to Japan. Before he moved to the New York office in 2013, Daisuke has been working for Moody’s Japan K.K. and has held a variety of roles and responsibilities. As an Analyst, he had a special emphasis on collateral debt obligations (CDO) and asset-backed securities (ABS).

Yusuke Seki Associate Managing Director, Structured Finance Moody's Ratings

Yusuke Seki is an Associate Managing Director inthe Japan structured finance group, based in the Tokyo office.

He has been working for Moody’s since 2000 and has held a variety of roles and responsibilities. As an Analyst, he had a special emphasis on asset-backed securities (ABS) and collateral debt obligations(CDO).

Before working at Moody’s, he worked in the assetmanagement department of a major insurance company.

He is a Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan as well as a Fellow of The Institute of Actuaries of Japan.

Jian (Jay) Hu Managing Director, Structured Finance Moody's Ratings

Jian Hu is currently Managing Director and Head of New Ratings and Surveillance for Americas Corporate Structured Finance, which includes collateralized loan and bond obligations backed by corporate bank loans (CLOs), corporate bonds, middle market/private credit, and project finance/infrastructure loans, asset-backed securities (ABS) backed by commercial and novel assets such as equipment, aircraft, small business, wireless tower/digital infrastructure, utility cost recovery, rental vehicles, and music royalty/intellectual property, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP), Latin America structured finance and other structured credit products at Moody’s Investors Service. He also oversees structured finance research, is a member of Moody’s Decentralized Finance and Digital Assets leadership team, and a Director on the Board of China Chengxin Credit Rating Group (CCXI), China’s leading credit rating company and a Moody’s joint venture. From September 2008 to September 2016, Jian was Global Head of Structured Credit Surveillance. Between August 2007 and August 2008, he was a Senior Vice President responsible for structured credit research at Moody’s. From 2002 to 2007, he was Director of Global Structured Finance Default Research within Moody’s Credit Policy Group, leading a research team that analyzed structured finance securities’ credit performance and published the findings regularly as Moody’s Special Comments as well as articles in the Journal of Fixed Income. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2002, Jian was a senior financial economist in the credit finance department of Fannie Mae in Washington, DC, where he was lead researcher on mortgage portfolio credit risk analytics. Jian previously also conducted academic research on the relationship between job market conditions and capital markets, and the research results were published in the Journal of Finance. Jian holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, and a Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

Dev Chatterjee Managing Director, Structured Finance Moody's Investors Service

Dev Chatterjee is a Managing Director and the head of the SFG Corporate surveillance and ABCP ratings teams at Moody’s Investors Service that include commercial and esoteric ABS, structured credits such as CLOs and asset-backed commercial paper.

Dev has been in his current role since October 2016.

Previously, Dev has held a number of management roles within the structured finance team at Moody’s. Most recently, he was the head of the ABS surveillance and ABCP ratings teams at Moody’s. He was also on the editorial board of ABS Spotlight, a monthly newsletter focusing on the U.S. ABS market. Dev has also headed the U.S.

RMBS surveillance team and was the managing editor of Resi Landscape, a newsletter focusing on the U.S. housing market. Dev has also managed the U.S. RMBS New Ratings team in the US and the structured finance team in Sydney. Dev has garnered extensive ABS, RMBS and Structured Credit experience and has guided the development and publication of many ratings methodologies.

Dev joined Moody’s in 2003. Before joining Moody’s, Dev worked as a consultant, most recently with GE Capital. He holds an MBA from Yale University and a BS in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.