Mick Ankrom is head of Enterprise Credit and Global Banking Risk at Bank of America.  Full Bio

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Matthew Arnold is Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility Engagement at JPMorgan Chase. In addition to Sustainability and Impact Finance, he is leading a new effort to engage the firm’s clients in corporate responsibility strategy. Full Bio

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Mark Cagley is the Chief Credit Officer of Starwood Property Trust. Full Bio

Mark Cagley is the Chief Credit Officer of Starwood Property Trust. In this role, Mr. Cagley oversees deal screening, structuring and due diligence, asset management and primary servicing for investments made by Starwood Property Trust. He also chairs the Company’s Investment Committee.  Prior to joining Starwood Property Trust in 2015, Mr. Cagley was employed at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he most recently served as the Commercial Real Estate Credit Products Executive for the Eastern United States. In this role, he was responsible for the underwriting, structuring, closing and management of a $25 billion loan portfolio. During his almost 30 years in the real estate finance industry at Bank of America and Wells Fargo/Wachovia, Mr. Cagley held a number of senior roles in the commercial real estate origination, underwriting and capital markets loan syndication units at both organizations. Mr. Cagley received a B.S. degree in marketing from Louisiana State University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

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Francisco Covas is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Research at the Bank Policy Institute. Full Bio

Francisco Covas is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Research at the Bank Policy Institute. Prior to joining BPI, Mr. Covas served as Senior Vice President and Deputy Head of Research at the Clearing House Association, where he helped oversee research and analysis to support the advocacy of the Association on behalf of the owner banks. Prior to joining the Clearing House in 2016, Mr. Covas was an assistant director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board where he supervised a team focused on the effects of changes in bank regulation on monetary policy, on the role of banks in the transmission of monetary policy, and on the development and validation of stress testing models. Prior to that, he was an economist in the Division of Banking Supervision & Regulation and focused on a range of capital, liquidity and other regulatory initiatives. Mr. Covas earned a Ph.D. in economics from University of California, San Diego in 2004 and a B.A. from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in 1997. He has written extensively on liquidity rules, capital regulation and stress testing and has published research on a wide range of journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, International Journal of Forecasting, among other academic journals. Minimize

Hervé P. Duteil created the position of Chief Sustainability Officer for BNP Paribas in the Americas in 2014. Full Bio

Hervé P. Duteil created the position of Chief Sustainability Officer for BNP Paribas in the Americas in 2014.  In this role, he leads the Bank’s regional strategy for Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Finance, and Company Engagement, bringing in particular a strong focus on promoting client dialogue around sustainability topics and the development of tailored financing solutions or responsible investment products.  In 2018, he was selected by Euromoney as one of the 10 “champions of global impact banking”.

Hervé has spent most of his career with BNP Paribas in New York.  He specialized in trading derivatives and managing capital market activities, spanning across commodity, currency, fixed income and electronic markets.  More recently, he led BNP Paribas’ efforts to close its first Social Impact Bond for the benefit of the State of Connecticut, followed by a second one with the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide quality employment to veterans suffering from service-related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the states of New York and Massachusetts.

Hervé holds a Master in Business Administration with distinction from the Harvard Business School, a Master of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Physics from the University of Paris.  Also a professional concert musician, he received various certificates from the Juilliard School of Music in New York.  He is a member of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance Advisory Board and of the Canada Standards Association (CSA) Taxonomy Technical Committee for the Development of a National Standard for “Green and Transition Finance”. Minimize

Joshua Easterly was elected as a Director and the Chairman of the TSLX Board at inception in March 2011, and served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of TSLX from December 2013 (prior to TSLX’s initial public offering in March 2014), along with Michael Fishman. Full Bio

Joshua Easterly was elected as a Director and the Chairman of the TSLX Board at inception in March 2011, and served as the Co-Chief Executive Officer of TSLX from December 2013 (prior to TSLX’s initial public offering in March 2014), along with Michael Fishman. Joshua Easterly was appointed the sole Chief Executive Officer of TSLX in January 2018. Mr. Easterly is a TPG and TSSP Partner and the Co-Chief Investment Officer of the Adviser. Between 2008 and 2010, he was a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Americas Special Situations Group, which invested Goldman’s capital in both the public markets and private transactions in distressed and special situations. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as a Director, Management Committee Member and Co-Head of the Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group. Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs & Co. in March 2006, Mr. Easterly was Senior Vice President, Northeast Regional Originations Manager at Wells Fargo Foothill, the $8 billion commercial finance company of Wells Fargo and Company. Mr. Easterly graduated from California State University, Fresno with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, magna cum laude. Minimize

Jason M. Goldberg, CFA, joined Barclays in September 2008 and is currently a Managing Director and senior equity analyst following the U.S. Large-cap Bank industry. Full Bio

Jason M. Goldberg, CFA, joined Barclays in September 2008 and is currently a Managing Director and senior equity analyst following the U.S. Large-cap Bank industry. Prior, Jason was at Lehman Brothers beginning in July 2000. Jason began covering the banking industry on the sell side in 1995 at Smith Barney. He earned a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Jason has been recognized as a top ranked analyst in Institutional Investor's “All-Star Analyst” survey for 18 straight years, including 9 years in two categories. In the 2019 survey, he ranked No. 1 in its Large-Cap Bank category, when voters were weighted by assets under management, and No. 2, when weighted by commissions. He has ranked in its Large-Cap Bank category in each of the past 16 years, consistently placing No. 4 or higher. He also ranked in its Mid-Cap Bank category for 11 consecutive years, including being the No. 1 ranked analyst 5 times. Since 2004, he has consistently published his highly regarded daily morning ‘Bank Brief’ e-mail.

In addition to his research responsibilities, Jason is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and universities and has presented the Wall Street point of view at numerous company retreats and board meetings of both U.S. and foreign banks, as well as to the U.S. Department of Treasury, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the American Bankers Association (ABA), and the Bank Administration Institute’s (BAI) CFO Roundtable. He has also educated students at the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and Columbia University. He is regularly quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, Barron’s and other business publications and is a frequent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.

His coverage universe encompasses the largest banks in the U.S., including 24 S&P 500 components, and exceeds $1.8 trillion of market capitalization. It includes Ally Financial, Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, BB&T, Capital One, Citigroup, Citizens Financial, Comerica, Fifth Third, First Republic, Goldman Sachs, Huntington Bancshares, JPMorgan Chase, KeyCorp, M&T Bank, Morgan Stanley, Northern Trust, PNC Financial, Regions Financial, State Street, SVB Financial, SunTrust, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo, and Zions Bancorp. Minimize

Michael is a New York-based partner in EY’s National Accounting group with 16 years of experience in the banking industry.  Full Bio

Michael is a New York-based partner in EY’s National Accounting group with 16 years of experience in the banking industry. He focuses on the accounting for financial instruments, credit impairment, and the interactions between accounting and bank regulation.

Prior to his current role, Michael was a Professional Accounting Fellow at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (August 2015- June 2017), splitting his time between Washington, DC and New York. In that role, he provided technical accounting and risk expertise to inform and shape the Board’s policy making, stress testing and supervision efforts. Michael’s responsibilities also included direct experience working on international bank standard-setting under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Michael also served as the banking industry resident in EY’s Professional Practice group (July 2011-August 2015) and as an Associate Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (August 2009-June 2011). At the FASB, he worked on the Board’s lease accounting joint project, its troubled debt restructuring project and various Emerging Issues Task Force matters.

Michael began his career in EY’s Los Angeles assurance practice in 2002, where he served clients in the financial services industry, with a particular focus on mortgage banks, specialty finance and asset servicers.

Michael graduated with a B.S. in accounting from the University of Southern California and a M.S. in accountancy from the University of Notre Dame. Michael is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in California and New York. Minimize

Jason is responsible for the firm's London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) transition efforts.  Full Bio

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Before founding AAF in 2009, Dr. Holtz-Eakin served in a variety of influential policy positions. Full Bio

Before founding AAF in 2009, Dr. Holtz-Eakin served in a variety of influential policy positions. During 2001-2002, he was the Chief Economist of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), where he had also served during 1989-1990 as a Senior Staff Economist. At CEA he helped to formulate policies addressing the 2000-2001 recession and the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. From 2003-2005 he was the 6^th Director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which provides budgetary and policy analysis to the U.S. Congress. During his tenure, CBO assisted Congress as they addressed numerous policies — notably the 2003 tax cuts (the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act), the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill (the Medicare Modernization Act), and the 2005 push for Social Security reform.

During 2007 and 2008, he was Director of Domestic and Economic Policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. After that, he was a Commissioner on the congressionally chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin built an international reputation as a scholar doing research in areas of applied economic policy, econometric methods, and entrepreneurship. He began his career at Columbia University in 1985 and moved to Syracuse University from 1990 to 2001. At Syracuse, he became Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Associate Director of the Center for Policy Research.

Dr. Holtz-Eakin writes a daily column in AAF’s morning newsletter, the Daily Dish, and regularly comments on current policy and political debates for a variety of news outlets.

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Deepesh has over 15 years of specialized experience in structuring and managing securitization programs.  Full Bio

Deepesh has over 15 years of specialized experience in structuring and managing securitization programs. As Head of Capital Markets, he is responsible for raising funding from banks and other institutional investors to help fund Kabbage's business and small business loans. Before joining Kabbage, Deepesh spent nearly 10 years at Capital One. He began in their Debt Capital Markets group, where he managed their credit card securitization programs. Later, he served as Senior Compliance Manger, managing operational risk and regulatory compliance. Most recently, Deepesh was the Head of U.S. Capital Markets Execution at Barclays for six years. There, he oversaw Treasury-related capital market activities in the U.S. and was an active participant in industry advocacy efforts in the U.S. and Europe. Deepesh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA in Finance from Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.    Minimize

Rahul Jha is VP of Capital Markets at Cross River where he leads the warehouse lending business. Full Bio

Rahul Jha is VP of Capital Markets at Cross River where he leads the warehouse lending business. Prior to Cross River, Rahul built out the capital markets and strategy efforts at fintech bank Laurel Road.  He has also held positions at JP Morgan in the Corporate Strategy and Debt Capital Markets groups. Rahul graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelors in Economics. Minimize

Throughout her 11 years with the company Rosie has developed broad experiences across Finance and proven her passion for taking on new challenges. Full Bio

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Michael Stegman is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets, where he focuses on housing finance reform and affordable housing. Full Bio

Michael Stegman is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets, where he focuses on housing finance reform and affordable housing. He is a widely sought after expert and frequent public speaker on housing finance and has also written extensively on housing and urban policy, community development, access to credit, and asset development policies.

From 2015 to 2016, Dr. Stegman served as senior policy advisor for housing on the staff at the National Economic Council, following three and a half years as the counselor to the secretary of the Treasury for housing finance policy. As a senior policy advisor during the Obama administration, Dr. Stegman’s policy responsibilities ranged from housing finance reform to access to credit to other housing-related issues.  

Previously, Dr. Stegman served as a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, and as director of policy and housing for the program on human and community development at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for six years. Dr. Stegman is also a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught and conducted research on affordable housing policy as chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning and was founding chair of the Department of Public Policy. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Stegman served as assistant secretary for policy development and research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. During this time, Dr. Stegman was named by the National Journal as one of Washington’s 100 most influential decision makers.

Dr. Stegman holds a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Minimize

James Strecker is a Managing Director and Senior High Grade Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities covering U.S., European and Canadian Banks, as well as IG Specialty Finance. Full Bio

James Strecker is a Managing Director and Senior High Grade Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities covering U.S., European and Canadian Banks, as well as IG Specialty Finance. James has been a ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor survey for the sectors he covers since 2012. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, James worked for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. as an equity analyst covering U.S. financial institutions and served as a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee. James received an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a BA in history, with honors, from Rutgers University. James holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Minimize

 

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Devi Aurora is a Senior Director and Analytical Manager for U.S. and Canadian banks at S&P Global Ratings, where she is responsible for ensuring the rigor and analytical consistency across bank ratings. Full Bio

Devi Aurora is a Senior Director and Analytical Manager for U.S. and Canadian banks at S&P Global Ratings, where she is responsible for ensuring the rigor and analytical consistency across bank ratings. Prior to her most recent position, she served as a senior member of the global Financial Institutions team, where she specialized in analytical research and thought-leading commentaries on banking industry trends and outlook. She conducted credit analysis of banks, finance companies and housing-related entities, and represented the FI team at S&P’s Credit Conditions Committee, a key global internal forum for discussing macro views and identifying vulnerabilities and risks.

Devi began her career as an international macroeconomist and country risk expert at DRI/Global Insight. She subsequently moved on to specialize in fixed income research and corporate credit trends analysis for S&P Global, specializing in default research and leveraged finance.

She has 20+ years of experience with credit analysis, fixed-income analytics, economic modeling and forecasting. From 2008-2010, Devi was based in our Singapore office. Devi holds a M.A. degree in international economics from Yale University and a B.A. degree in Economics and French from Vassar College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Minimize

 

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Satyam Panday is a Senior Economist in the Global Economics and Research Group at S&P Global Ratings Full Bio

Satyam Panday is a Senior Economist in the Global Economics and Research Group at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. In this position, he develops U.S. economic forecasts for ratings, provides insight into U.S. macroeconomic outlook, and develops thought pieces on economic policy actions.

Before joining S&P Global Ratings in July of 2013, Satyam taught undergraduate and graduate economics courses at Boston College and Brandeis University from 2011 to 2013. Previously, he had been a research fellow in the macroeconomic analysis division at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington D.C. Earlier in his career, he spent several years at MassMutual Financial Group as an actuarial analyst in their mortality research and quantitative modeling team.

Satyam holds a Ph.D. in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University. He specialized in macroeconomics, development economics and applied econometrics. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and received his MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management.

Dr. Panday is a member of American Economic Association, National Association of Business Economists, and ECOMOD Global Economic Modeling Network. He is originally from Nepal and remains engaged with it as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Policy Entrepreneurs Inc., in Nepal. Minimize

 

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As a member of the North America Government Affairs and Public Policy team, Mr. Clark is responsible for S&P Global’s strategy and execution for engagement with North American policymakers and regulators.  Full Bio

As a member of the North America Government Affairs and Public Policy team, Mr. Clark is responsible for S&P Global’s strategy and execution for engagement with North American policymakers and regulators. Within S&P Global, Mr. Clark coordinates across the organization’s multiple business divisions and corporate functions to design and evaluate responses to policy challenges.

Mr. Clark joined S&P Global in July of 2019. Before joining the company, he was the Senior Economic Policy Advisor to Senator Jon Tester (D-MT). In this role, Mr. Clark handled a wide range of issues for Senator Tester, including his banking, housing, finance, labor, and appropriations portfolios. During his time in the Senate, Mr. Clark played a key role in authoring the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act” (S.2155), the largest modification to Dodd-Frank signed into law in the last decade. Mr. Clark also worked on multiple pieces of legislation related to insurance issues during his time in the Senate, as well as on efforts to reform the housing finance system.

Mr. Clark holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Oregon. Minimize

 

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Stuart Plesser is a Senior Director in the North American Financial Institutions Ratings Team. Full Bio

Stuart Plesser is a Senior Director in the North American Financial Institutions Ratings Team. Stuart serves as a Sector Lead on the banking team and covers large complex bank credits and comments regularly on developments in the banking industry. In addition, he heads an internal global banking team, focusing on harmonizing ratings and analytics for large complex global credits.

Stuart joined S&P in 2006 as an equity analyst covering the banking industry and was awarded Best on the Street by the Wall Street Journal for stock selection in 2008 and 2009.

Stuart received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA in Finance from the N.Y.U. Stern School of Business. Minimize

 

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