Moody's Analytics Experts

Avinash Arun

Creates credit assessment and origination strategies and supports commercial loan origination and risk management objectives.

Carolina Brandao-Nobili

Carolina has 10 years of experience and a client-oriented profile. In her current role within the Structured Solutions team, Carolina is responsible for the implementation process of Moody’s Analytics issuer side automated tools, making the link between technology and the clients’ business objectives. With a vast international exposure, Carolina has also worked in European and Latin American financial institutions issuing and managing securitization deals and other structured products.

Annie Choi

Develops analytic and empirical models, and trains and advises clients worldwide on enterprise risk management, asset and liability management, and stress testing.

Rich Colden

Richard is responsible for providing consultative services to issuers in the structured finance industry that use Moody’s Analytics automated tools. Prior to joining Moody’s Analytics, Richard managed the securitization reporting and trust administration functions for Access Group, Inc., as well as worked on funding strategies. In addition, Richard has 25 plus years of financial and treasury experience with Citigroup, Bank of America, and Prudential Financial, working in various structured finance, risk management, and financial reporting roles.

Blake Coules

Across 35 years in banking, Blake has gained deep insights into the inner working of this sector. Over the last two decades, Blake has been an Operating Committee member, leading teams and executing strategies in Credit and Enterprise Risk as well as Line of Business. His focus over this time has been primarily Commercial/Corporate with particular emphasis on CRE. Blake has spent most of his career with large and mid-size banks. Blake joined Moody’s Analytics in 2021 after leading the transformation of the credit approval and reporting process at a $25 billion bank.

Cayetano Gea-Carrasco

Offers wide-ranging expertise on capital markets, AI analytics, and software management.

Steve Goodfriend

Steve Goodfriend is a seasoned professional with 20+ years of experience delivering securitization platforms to the structured finance market. As part of Moody’s Analytics, Steve has collaborated with more than 40 organizations from first-time issuers to global players. He has a broad range of expertise across multiple asset classes including auto loans, auto leases, dealer floor plans, credit cards, residential mortgages in the US, UK and Australia, REITs, equipment leases, student loans, and more.. Steve studied economics at the University of Vermont and later obtained his MBA with a concentration in corporate finance from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Ashok Khatri

Ashok Khatri currently leads the Product team for Ki- Funding. He is responsible for developing and managing solutions for the funding and treasury management needs of Structured Finance issuers, trustees and lenders across the globe. He has been a key member in the implementation of cutting edge optimization algorithms for solving funding and allocation problems for treasury teams. Prior to this role, Ashok has years of experience in cash flow modeling of European and U.S. Structured Finance deals. Ashok has served in various other roles in the Financial Services industry. He has worked with start-ups, as well as in strategy consulting, bringing his expertise and best practices to the product management and development lifecycle. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MBA : Finance

Irina Korablev

Offers expertise in data science, data operations, credit risk models and model monitoring, plus model management and governance, with a focus on CAP™, RiskBench™, and RiskCalc™ products.

Sanjay Krishnan

Sanjay currently leads various client engagement projects. The clients are typically treasury teams at various banks and non-bank financial companies globally. Sanjay has 10 years of experience in structured finance and has worked in the United Kingdom and in the US. Prior to Moody’s Analytics, Sanjay was with Fitch Ratings in London where he worked as a ratings analyst specializing in emerging markets. Sanjay’s areas of expertise include consulting, treasury solutions, cash flow modeling and regulatory framework across a wide variety of asset classes in securitization such as Consumer ABS, Commercial ABS and RMBS in multiple jurisdictions.

Xerses Naegamvala

Twenty two years in financial software development, consulting, and services management. The majority of which focused on securitization issuers and investors. The last two years as the product owner and leader for our next generation products built around our pioneering efforts with Ki.

Brian Robinson

Actuary; risk management specialist; corporate and capital modelling expert