John is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Ratings Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team where he coordinates Moody’s global data center related research, outreach, and analytical initiatives including Moody’s US project finance private credit market engagement. John speaks at multiple conferences on a variety of infrastructure topics every year, authors key research across on multiple infrastructure asset types, and annually leads several new rating assignments for complex project financings in digital, energy, transportation, and social infrastructure.  

Before joining the project finance team in 2010, John spent two and a half years as a lead analyst for local governments and enterprises in Moody’s Ratings Eastern Region Local Government Team rating municipal issuers in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Florida. John helped launch and was the first co-chair of Moody’s US Multicultural Business Resource Group and was also a founding member of Moody’s US PRIDE Business Resource Group. 

Prior to joining Moody’s, John worked as a risk management analyst, a property and casualty insurance account manager, and a health care hospital claims auditor. John earned his BA from Stanford University and his MPA from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Moses Kopmar covers credits for the US airports, seaports, social infrastructure, and toll roads, as well as related project finance issuers. Prior to joining the Project and Infrastructure Finance Team, Moses was on the Public Finance Local Governments Ratings Team covering cities, counties, municipal utilities, schools, special districts, and related issuers throughout the US.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Moses worked in economic development in the San Francisco Bay Area where he engaged in economic development, government affairs and policy research on behalf of private and public sector members. Moses holds an MPA in Public Finance from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and a BA in English from Stanford University.

Earl Heffintrayer manages the US transportation team, which includes airports, toll roads and seaports.  Earl has led research on US airports and is highly experienced on a broad range of public-private partnerships and project financings in the transportation, higher education, social infrastructure, and data center sectors. 

Earl’s prior experience includes work as a financial analyst at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and as a civil engineer on large infrastructure projects in the New York City region. Earl is a CFA charter holder and is based in Dallas.

Kurt Krummenacker is an Associate Managing Director in the Americas Project Finance and Infrastructureteam, which covers a portfolio of transportation, public power, and project finance inNorth and Latin America. Prior to joining Moody’s in March 2006, Kurt worked inseveral departments of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Kurt is aretired U.S. Army Captain who served as a Blackhawk Helicopter pilot andcommanding officer of several aviation, logistics, and administrative units primarily inthe 101st Airborne Division. Kurt holds a BS in Economics from the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point, a Master of Aeronautical Science from Embry-RiddleUniversity, and an MBA in Finance from the Columbia University Business School.

Naomi Richman is a Senior Vice President in Moody's US Public Finance Group. Naomi manages the Surveillance team and Data and Analytics team. She is also responsible for contributing to state and local government analytical initiatives, research and methodologies. Naomi was previously a Managing Director in US Public Finance and Chief Credit Officer for global public sector ratings. Naomi has over 35 years of experience in credit analysis at Moody's, covering state and local governments, housing, higher education, financial guarantors, and global sovereigns.

Prior to joining Moody's, Naomi spent four years with the New York City Department of Finance. Naomi holds an MPP from Harvard University and an AB from Bryn Mawr College.

Cintia Nazima is a Vice President - Senior Analyst in the Global Project and Infrastructure Finance team in Moody’s Ratings (MIS), based in New York. Cintia’s portfolio includes US toll roads, airports, public power issuers, project finance and power projects. Cintia joined the team in New York in 2019 having previously worked as an associate analyst in the Public, Project and Infrastructure Finance team based in Sao Paulo office from 2014 to 2017. During her time in Sao Paulo Cintia worked on the portfolio monitoring, research and outreach activities related to a broad portfolio consisting of toll roads, utilities, water and sanitation, project finance and power projects and was the back-up analyst for the entire sub-sovereign portfolio in Brazil.

Being passionate about diversity and inclusion, Cintia has been actively involved as a member of the NY Multicultural ERG since 2019. She is the co-lead of the Professional Development Subcommittee where she manages the Active Language Studio, a program that offers Moody’s employees the opportunity to learn or improve their skills to communicate in a particular language, and other training focused on providing employees with continued development opportunities.

Prior to joining Moody’s in New York, Cintia was a senior credit analyst at XP Investimentos where she was responsible for the coverage of the entire Brazilian infrastructure portfolio.

Scott Solomon is a Senior Vice President in the Global Infrastructure Finance Group. Since joining Moody’s in 1998, Scott has been responsible for assigning ratings to and monitoring credit profiles of various types of issuers across the electric power industry. These have including investor-owned utilities, public power issuers, independent power companies and project finance transactions.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Scott held various credit-related positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Scott earned an M.B.A. from Fordham University in New York, a B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and completed a formal credit training program at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.